Winter, poverty and Lepcha

Its winter in nepal and we all are suffering from cold. Ilam, its a hilly area of nepal and its a kind of beautiful heaven. Most of the Nepalese people know about its beautiness. And...... the Lepcha people is live only in Ilam District of Nepal and they found in darjeeling, sikkim and kalimpong in india too. ‘Lepcha’s are really awesome people, they are really simple and honest. Lepcha’s are 10 times behind in education than so called hight cast hill brahman and chhetries.

Rare people have done master and few of them are doing now and their education level is growing well. Even though, their life style ohuis getting better than before. All people known that Ilam is really beautiful place though it has really hard and complicated places too. Few villages are lacking behind from road access and the interesting thing is that most of the Lepcha’s lives in rural disadvantages place of Ilam. I asked one of the Lepcha people in ilam why you guys always live in rural corner? he replied ‘Lepcha people are very shy that’s why most of the lepcha’s lives hiding in corner and complicated place J ‘.

we went through on more than 7 VDC of Lepcha's in ilam and found most of them are single (male and female both) till old age and when the got widow specially male they don't get married so i asked one of lepcha guy why lepcha people don't get second married is there any special rules or what? he just laugh and  replied nope lepcha people doesn't have any strictly rules for not getting second married but they doesn't have courage to have second married :P 

They have small family size, The interesting thing about Lepcha is that most of the Lepcha has more or less land in village but how ever they have, they haven't got in their name; most of them are just growing and  using it because those all land is in their dead parent's name.  few Lepcha’s are land less but  few of them have lots of land and wealth. Few of them got a kaji title and they feel proud to say that ‘we are Kaji so don’t forget to put Kaji on our name’. who are kaji; they feel superior than other lepcha that’s why few years ago the kaji’s were bit proudy and they felt shy to write their cast Lepcha, later on when Lepcha people started to get support from government they started write Lepcha as their cast with their position Kaji. 

We have been there in September and it was warm enough to live in the living places of Lepchas like; samalbung, malim and erautar. But few of places like fikkal, kanyam, panchakanya, shree antu and some places are too cold. Though, Lepcha kids were running without sleepers and enough cloths.
Now i’m in Kathmandu and we are having a maximum 17^c temperature in a day and maximum 3 ^c temperature in a night now i’m just missing that place, cold and poor people of Lepcha community. I do have few snaps of that lady who is playing on floor without cloth. she was just innocent and was playing whole day alone in a corner of house with her shed and urine. i'm just missing her pale face with out breakfast and dinner. i'm just missing her wet and dark room, Nepal government have done few support for them still lots of things to remain. The government providing them 1000rs per month per person though its not enough for all some of them are really reach they don't need for that support but who are really needed they are still lacking behind from those all support.