Dailekh: Our Identity Our Pride
-Krishna Kumar Yogi
As Patricia Briggs stated in her Cry Wolf, ‘Identity was partly heritages,
partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you can make in life.’ Of course, there is the role of every petty
thing in the formation of an individual’s identity. What we inherit makes our
identity, how we have been brought up has a share for our identity and our ‘will
to power ‘also has a much to do in an integrated process of identity formation.
Identity formation is simple and complex both. Writers create their
identities devoting their entire life, dancers amuse the audience, and singers
touch the heart and minds of people and remain in the process of identity
formation. Through their performance they create their identity.
Preserving identity is preserving dignity. So, if we intend to preserve
the dignity let’s preserve our identity and history and heritages that we are
with. Our district history is no more written/documented/inscribed in a history
book. Therefore remembering a saying by one of the writers before I can say I
am, I was. Why not to keep our history intact? Why not to focus the past? Past
heralds the future. If we prioritize the past and protect it, and do
accordingly the future generations will learn and thank us for our wonderful
deeds. Otherwise, they will curse us always.
The identity and (un)success of the upcoming generation go hand in hand.
On time, let’s activate ourselves and preserve, promote, conserve and disclose
our heritages, history, archeology and religiosity along with sacred pilgrimages
amazing fire blazing temples available in Dailekh district. Our district is to
be shown to others. Our present outstanding task introduces our district. We
must show ‘who we are’ and ‘how we perform’ and so on.
The questions like ‘who we are,’ ‘how are we indentified’ among people in
and around us and ‘how we work is’ make our identity. Everyone struggles for
identity making in one or other way. The whole or sole objective of people’s
life is directed towards the formation of identity. Why not to initiate? It is
one of the realities of life among the infinite ones in our surrounding. Our delay
doing is decay doing in this mission. Let’s change our mentality on time.
The dynamic and changing nature of life teaches us to perceive life as a
process of attainment, achievement and affection as psychologists say. Through
these all, we are trying to form the garland of identity which introduces us
among many unfamiliar faces, heterogeneous heads. Whatsoever the hardships come
on the highway of life, we combat or leave them and learn the lesson from these
difficult circumstances. Therefore, life is more than what we think rather it
is how we live, learn, enjoy and entertain. Along with amusing aspects of life,
suffering, pains and perils can be met on the highway of life.
To ensure for better highway of Dailekhi people’s life, through this
article, I would like to appeal to everyone let’s (re)make our identity because
it is our pride. It is our dignity. It is our history and heritage. It is our
soul and life both and what not? Thinking the history of Dailekh inextricably
linked to identity of Dailekh district and Dailekhi people. Our identity is
mostly the choices that we make in life. As Mary Pipher envisions further- If
you don’t know your history, if you don’t know your family, who are you? It
sounds not that much good for politicians, intellectuals, businesspersons and
everyone who share this land of Dailekh not knowing their own origin, history,
heritage and ancestry. For that cause, let’s do something concrete and positive
to protect and promote our history, heritages and to enlarge and disseminate
about them as much as possible nationally and internationally.
Published on: Dhamaka Daily Dailekh, 2067-05-23.
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