Arpit Gurung
30th March
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andering around the street of Hemja with his unusually,
bizarre funny kind of clothes on, Ram
Bahadur Pariyar has a different story unlike ours. He prefers to be called as
Sikka Baba. One can see him walking around Tibetan Camp of Hemja with his weird
looking dress full of coins, similar looking hat, with his ears pierced like
grandmothers’, two flags of Nepal on each side on his arm, some metal bangles,
big swag chain on his neck and lastly an old camera hanging around his
neck.
The inspiration behind this was, he had this strange dream
one day, where he was wearing clothes with lots of coins sticking onto it. Then
he started having the same dream again and again. So, he decided to live his
life differently. During his 44 years of lifetime, he spent half of his age
travelling all around 68 districts of Nepal. He started collecting coins and
started sticking them on his clothes. He first started with his cap, then on
his coat and later on his whole clothes. He claims that he has in total of 20
set of such clothes and they were all designed and sewed by himself. All the
time, he is seen wearing his uniquely designed costume and he says he feel
comfortable on them unlike other colthes. His clothes contain coins of 180
countries so far, mostly from Nepal. He has even got ancient coins of Nepal
which we can see only in the museum.
His further plans are to visit the remaining districts in
Bagmati and Karnali. He says that most of his expenses are provided by the
local V.D.C. he visits. Because of his clothes and his life stories he tells to
people, he doesn't have to worry about his rent and food I guess.
Besides his coin collecting part, he stated that he is
deeply concerned about World Peace & Development. And apart from his
different life from us, his view on the Nepalese government is similar to ours,
not a happy one.
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