Surya looking more and more like a gnome of the surrounding forest plays an ancient Nepali instrument that sounds like stringed instruments from China and Vietnam. It has a lovely tone and he use it, along with his faithful drum that is sitting next to him on the wall, to accompany the elaborate "Farmer" dances/narratives that Nepalis love to perform. The stories are elegant and rich in detail and very old. They reminded me of the Illiad and the Odyssey, in some ways, as they are meant to be spoken and sung and, most of all, to entertain. The kids even know them, so they are popular and not considered old and stale.