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[Shashi Mahaju]

We are very sad to inform you that Nepalbhasa Scholar Chatra Bahadur Kayastha's wife Moti Laxmi passed away yesterday. May her soul rest in peace. We sincerely thank all friends for their kind support. Now Chatra Bahadur dai is facing massive hospital bill, high interest loan and ritual expenses. Therefore, if you have not contributed yet and if you you wish to do so please deposit your contribution to the following account or contact following persons. All contributions will be published in the forthcoming issue of MATINA.

MATINA

80 Sandy Hill Road

SE18 7AZ

Account details

Bank: HSBC

A/C Name: MATINA

Sort Code: 40-07-35

Account Number: 01702947

Friends in UK can contact

Sashi Mahaju : 0208 317 9748 or 07809837110

Bal Gopal Shrestha: 07403421102

Friends in Nepal can contact

Maheswar Shrestha: 9851133751

Rajendra Shakya: 9803152965

Ravi Shakya: 9849087328

Friends in US can contact

Season Shrestha: +001 410 404 5388

Friends in Europe can contact

Mr. Surendra Man Amatya: +0032 489 778 773

Kind Regards

MATINA

A friend in need is a friend indeed

He wears power glasses, keeps wandering from places to places, excavates age old stone slabs, scrubs it, peruses for hours and deciphers. He reads letter by letter, makes notes and brings something new to the ungrateful Nepalese society. His research ability is of no match. He is a simple but determined Newah from Patan. He dislikes self promoting, hates knocking on the doors of authorities for the dole. He keeps writing in his mother tongue . Every drop of his ink is the cost of his blood. His name is Chatra Bahadur Kayastha, a research expert and one of the senior most NepalBhasa Activist.

I received a phone call from Mr. Surendra Amatya, another Nepal Bhasa Activist from Patan, who informed me that the scholar Chatra Bahadur is in financial crisis due to his wife's illness. In the mean time, my colleague Rajendra Shakya who, coincidently is also from Patan and a promising Nepal Bhasa Activist e-mailed a circular message stating Chatra Bahadur's hardship.

Chatra Bahadur's wife Motilaxmi 68 is in coma in one of the most expensive hospital, B and B. According to Chatra Bahadur, she was taken to the hospital by neighbours whilst he was away. B and B is notorious for charging the patients. Chatra Bahadur tried to transfer his wife to a cheaper hospital but he could not dare to because of the doctor's warning. Transferring a patient in such condition is too risky. He has no choice but to carry on in same expensive hospital and now his hospital invoice alone has already reached to the NRs 6,43,000.00 in words six lakh and forty three thousand. There is an another separate bill of medicines. Now-a-days he is sitting next to his unconscious wife's bed and collecting Newah words for flowers from moth-eaten manuscripts.

As you know MATINA is a magazine of Newah people, we seriously felt that this is the time to support our honourable scholar. Hence, we have decided to help him. Hope, you will also join us in this humanitarian action.

Friends in UK can either send cheque to the following address or deposit into the following account. Please make cheque payable to MATINA. Also please write CBK2012 on the back of the cheque along with your name and address. Those who like to deposit into the account are requested to write CBK2012 as reference.

Postal Address

MATINA

80 Sandy Hill Road

SE18 7AZ

Account details

Bank: HSBC

A/C Name: MATINA

Sort Code: 40-07-35

Account Number: 01702947

Friends in Nepal can contact

Maheswar Shrestha: 9851133751

Rajendra Shakya: 9803152965

Ravi Shakya: 9849087328

Friends in US can contact

Season Shrestha: +001 410 404 5388

Friends in Europe can contact

Mr. Surendra Man Amatya: +0032 489 778 773

Kind Regards

MATINA

 

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MATINA is one and only one Nepalese international magazine publishing from the two continents of the world. It contains articles in three languages Nepalbhasa, Khas bhasa and in English. MATINA is proud of its dedicated members Ms Amrita Shrestha (Publisher), Mr Sashi Mahaju (Chief Editor), Mr Rajendra Shakya and Mr Ravi Shakya (Co-Editors) and Mr Maheswor Shrestha (Managing Director(Nepal). We are proud of our honourable advisors Mr. Keshar Lall Shrestha, Dr. Tej Ratna Kansakar, Mr Kamal Ratna Tuladhar, Dr. Sunder Krishna Joshi, Dr. Bal Gopal Shrestha, Tulsi Lal Singh, Bhagat Das Shrestha, and Ms Reena Tuladhar.