Watch Gyani Maiya (2019) Online

“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married in villages. It should be taught to children”. — Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda The Gi Mihaq (also known as Kusunda) was a semi-nomadic hunter and gatherer community that settled in villages around the mid-western Nepalese district of Dang. They have long lost their native language Mihaq (Kusunda), to acculturation and other barriers to active use. The community also lost their 83-year-old elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda in 2020, the most and the only known fluent Kusunda speaker then. Filmed in Kulmor in the Dang District in 2018, this openly-licensed documentary is a memoir of Sen-Kusunda in her own words and a biography of her people who were forced to leave their language and cultural identity. Kusunda is being revived by Kamala Sen Khatri, Sen-Kusunda’s younger sister, and Uday Raj Aaley, a local researcher who is the key interviewer for this film. Read More

Watch Gyani Maiya online. Featuring Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda and Uday Raj Aaley, Gyani Maiya is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 10. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Nepal and was released on 2019. Gyani Maiya was directed by Subhashish Panigrahi. Read Less