Great new Nepali National Anthem by Ganesh Rai:

Poet Byakul Maila's song selected as Nepal's new National Anthem By Ganesh Rai

KATHMANDU, Nov 30 - The National Anthem Selection Task Team (NASTT) has finally selected poet Byakul Maila's song as the new National Anthem of Nepal. NASTT Coordinator and culture expert Satyamohan Joshi said that the new National Anthem was selected from a total of 1272 different songs submitted to the team from across the country.
"We have completed the job assigned to us by the ministry," said Joshi. He also said that the new National Anthem was selected without knowing the name of its writer. "As per the guidelines given to the selection team, code numbers were given to all the songs we received and we selected one among them. We came to know the name of the composer only after the anthem was selected," he said.

NASTT had held a number of interaction programmes across the country to seek suggestions about the new National Anthem.

The first two lines of the new National Anthem read as follows:

'Sayaun Thunga Phoolka Hami Eutai Mala Nepali
Sarvabhaum Bhai Phailiyeka Mechi Mahakali...'

(From hundreds of flowers, we are one garland Nepali
Sovereign we are spread across Mechi Mahakali)- Unofficial Translation

The new National Anthem is two stanzas long and each stanza has four lines. There are altogether 47 words in the new National Anthem.
Talking to ekantipur after the selection of the anthem, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation, Pradeep Gyawali said, "The way the song of an indigenous and remote area's writer has been selected has added further charm to it."

Gyawali further said that the anthem selected by the NASTT would be submitted to the Council of Ministers, which would then "finalise" it.

Poet Byakul Maila whose real name is Pradeep Kumar Rai was born in the Hilepani village of Okhaldhunga district 34 years ago. Rai who holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and a Master's in Public Administration has been serving the Nepali literature for the last one and a half decades. He has written dozens of songs, poems, Haikus and is also the editor of Nepali Geet Sangraha (a collection of Nepali songs) and literary magazines like Barbhanjyang. He had actively participated in the April Movement.

"The song which has been selected (as the new National Anthem) as my song," an emotional Rai said, "is not my song. It's an expression of the feelings of the human sea that rose during Jana Andolan II."

The previous national anthem (Shreeman Gambhira Nepali Prachanda Pratapi Bhupati) music composed by Bakhatbir Budhapirthi and written by Chakrapani Chalise was adopted in 1899. The national anthem had widely been criticized as it was just a melody praising the monarchy.

The restored House of Representatives in its May 18 House Proclamation declared the existing national anthem null and void.

source: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=93055

CRAP.. I WOULD GO WITH RATO RA CHANDRA SURYA, JANGI NISHAN HAMRO

ew Nepali National Anthem by Ganesh Rai: (Translation)

राष्ट्रिय गान

सयौं थूंगा फूलका हामी, एउटै माला नेपाली
सार्वभौम भइ फैलिएका, मेची-महाकाली ।

प्रकृतिका कोटी-कोटी सम्पदाको आंचल
वीरहरुका रगतले, स्वतन्त्र र अटल

ज्ञानभूमि, शान्तिभूमि तराई, पहाड, हिमाल
अखण्ड यो प्यारो हाम्रो मातृभूमि नेपाल ।

बहुल जाति, भाषा, धर्म, संस्कृति छन् विशाल
अग्रगामी राष्ट्र हाम्रो, जय जय नेपाल ।


http://www.khabarnepal.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=423&pid=5191

What about Nepali citizens (who were born and live outside Nepal)? Aren't they Nepali? What song they should sing? This song does not account for them or does it? Somthing to think about..
-ViV, DC

I still like the old one.....................whats wrong with it?????

maddog you are mad dog that's why you liked the old one......... you freaked out moron.........

haha!!!!!!!!!!LOL

-Rockend

..miss nitu, ganesh rai hoina hau...Pradeep Rai....

First of all the National anthem is in Nepali which does not represents Nepal at all. I think the language to use would be English since there are many people in Nepal who do not understand Nepali at all. English should be the language since everyone should learn so they can communicate with people from other countries, and so we won't have another bloodshed in the name of language.

ne23pe ...hahaaha..English again...are u some kind of PHD in english???well few more suggestion - Chinese as we are going to follow MAO
- peace

Stupid People..........Changing national Anthem ??????.....Hope youall get a new Identity too..........if you cant understand plain nepali National Anthem which has been in our blood and culture and tradition for ages..............then I havbe nothing to say but to feel sorry for you.................. as for me ..... I have grown up singing that song everyday in school in the morning assembly........PROUDLY WITH MY HEAD HIGH UP..............SHREEMAAN GAMBHIR NEPALI, PRACHANDA PRATAPI BUPATI.............even the first line speaks of our nepalese character.....Before the praise for the king. Which by the way is a part of our history wether you all like it or not....you are stuck with it as long as you are a Nepali............Unless you want to deny...............................GET IT!!!!

MadDoGG i agree with you .....................
people should go change their mom and dad too cuz they are old
bidesh ma basera....................
nepal ko kura garcha......................

Imi bro long time no see. Where you been?
To answer your question no I am not doing PHD in English. What I am saying is ask anyone whose mother tongue is not Nepali they will tell you that they would prefer something in their own mother tongue, and why deprive them of that.
If there is going to be ethnic autonomy then there would be their own language so why create a national anthem in Nepali then. There would also be a chance for someone who feel that Nepali is being forced on them to raise arms again, so all I am saying is that there should be one language that we all Nepalese should communicate through. The best one I see is Hindi since that is what most Nepalese know or English which is universal.

ne23pe..man i am around ..just little calm these days.haha..
I hear you bro.. i know what you feel.Tell me honestly all the things that u say comes out of scarasm or you really feel that way?

On your point .I vote for hindi then...hey how about song from sholay for nepali national anthem ..who cares about national anthem anyways.. just everyone trying put each other down..Just another way for showing to nepali that they achieved a whole lot in reality not new nepal just a new song.I guess song should satisfy ..loktantra and maotantra..Man!i don't believe maoist would like this song /anthem whatever..it should be something Mao have written :
chi cha chai hai ho
ni chi po so do
mo fo ma o
mo fo para cha n da

IMI.. agree with you bro and ne23pe lets take nepal back to preprithivi state and everyone will have their own national anthem in their own language....

Imi bro what I am saying is not scarcism but out of reality. One can clearly see that if these demands are not met then there would be more ethnic problems later, so we might as well fix that problem now then fight about it later.
I know if I was told to not speak and write in my mother tongue I would be mad so why force it on these people who have their own mother tongue.

Thats all that I was trying to say.

Ne23pe,

In that way , why India has national anthem in Hindi? why not telugu or bengali?

Who gives a rat ass about these stupid song or that stupid national anthem ...nationality comes from within heart not from song ...and guess what our leaders have lost that!!!!!!!

Nationality , ethnicity, poverty are just political weapons that these people are using to exploit people...Think out of the box man!!!!think in broder vision ..this fu(king national anthem is no use when one nepali is burning another nepali's house , raping nepali sister.

Ethnicity ..is just a game for losers like Maoist that they got chance to exploit it!!
ethnicity means crap!!!!!!means nothing !!!!!!

I see your point bro, but the thing is only a handful of people would understand that. The way maoist inticed these ethnics groups, I doubt any ethnic groups in Nepal would settle for anything other than an independent state with in Nepal.

old one

what old one????