Dhimal women trained to make petani
By The Rising Nepal
25 Jul, 2021
The new generation of Dhimal community is now being trained to make their ethnic traditional dress ‘petani’ after it is being pushed to oblivion. Kamala Dhimal, 30, of Setumari, Damak-10, Jhapa, had no skill to make petani.
“Not only myself but also many new generation women of the village did not know how to make petani. It had to import the required petani after the petani stopped being made domestically,” she said.
Lok Bahadur Dhimal, Chairman of the Dhimal Caste Development Centre,...