Key Person of Kusunda Tribe 5 (Lila Bahadur Kusunda)

Lila Bahadur Kusunda

Date of birth: 1994 B.S.

Birth place: Balkot,  Arghakhachi

Now: Budhi Chaur, Pyuthan

Lila Bahadur Kusunda is another key informant for Kusunda research who was born in 1994 B.S.  He has been living since the settlement period in Tiram Ward 6. Budhi Chaur, of Pyuthan district. He has been living on Budhi Chaur since 2033 B.S.He has four sons and three daughters. He spent 28 years in the jungle with his father and uncle. He is well known about his culture and traditional cultural practices. He has been participating in different socio-political as well as cultural activities of his village.

He has been invited in the NFID national convention which was organized in Kathmandu. The convention organizers had also invited Lila Bahadur Kusunda and his middle son Setu Lal Kusunda. Lila Bahadur Kusunda had arrived Kathmandu with his particular traditional Kusunda weapons: bow and arrow. He has forgotten most of the Kusunda words as well as his mother tongue. Lila Bahadur Kusunda has married a non-Kusunda woman and has 18 members in his family. 

Lila Bahadur With his family member

He can sing different songs in the Kusunda language but he doesn't know the exact meaning of that song. Since he had inter-caste marriage and his children and grand-children are therefore also unknown about the Kusunda language. He has two settlements as well as a large amount of land in comparison to other Kusundas of Nepal.

Today, Lila Bahadur feels elated like never before as his family is likely to move into a newly-built brick house. And Lila Bahadur´s family is one of those in line for a brick house under the program. “I always thought that concrete houses were meant only for well-to-do people,” Lila Bahadur said. “But, in the near future, my children will also live in a fine house. They will no longer have to sleep on the cold and wet floor.” Lila Bahadur, who is now living in a thatched hut at Pyuthan has been managing two square meals a day for his family, working for daily wages. He has the skill to did hunting by using a bow and arrow.