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2008-12-19T04:01:00.000-08:00

अविरल विकल

नरेन्द्र रौले

(यो अन्र्तवार्ता कान्तिपुर कोशेलीमा गत हप्ता प्रकाशित भएको थियो । सम्भबत नेपालि पत्रकारले उनी सँग लिएको यो अन्तिम अन्र्तवार्ता हो । )

सहरी कोलाहलदेखि पर कुनाको आरुबारी टमस हार्डीको उपन्यास 'फार फ्रम द म्याडिङ क्राउड' झैं लाग्छ । सुन्दर गाउँदेखि अलि पर हरियो जंगल छ । बाँसका बाक्ला रूखहरु आफ्नै गतिमा हल्लिरहेका छन् । जाडोयाममा सबैका लागि प्यारो लाग्ने न्यानो घामले स्पर्श गर्छ । आरुबारी चोकैमा एउटा बूढो पीपलको रूख ठिंग उभिरहेको छ । त्यसको नजिकै एउटा घरको छतमा उमेरले ८० पुगेका वृद्घ केही लेखिरहेका छन् ।आठ दशक पार गरसिक्दा पनि रोकिएको छैन रमेश विकलको साहित्य सिर्जना । नदी बगिरहेझैं निरन्तर छ -त्यसो त उनको एक उपन्यासको शीर्षकै छ, 'अविरल बग्दछ इन्द्रावती') । दिनहुँ केही न केही लेखिरहेका हुन्छन् उनी । फुटकर रचना कति लेखिए थाहा छैन । किताबका रूपमा भने झन्डै एक दर्जनजति प्रकाशित छन् । भर्खरै साझाबाट प्रकाशित उनको आत्मकथा 'मेरो अबिरल जीवन गीत' को दोस्रो खण्ड लेख्ने तयारीमा छन् हिजोआज । उनी नेपालीमा सिर्जनामात्र गर्दैनन्, अंग्रेजीका स्तरीय पुस्तकको अनुवादसमेत गर्छन् । अमेरकिी लेखक ज्याक लन्डनको 'द सि उल्फ' लाई 'समुद्री हुँडार' नाम दिएर नेपालीमा अनुवाद गरेका छन् । उनले अनुवाद गरेको मेरी सेली -कवि पर्सि बेसी सेलीकी पत्नी) द्वारा लिखित विज्ञान उपन्यास 'प्याङ्केस्टाइन' नेपालीमा 'भष्मासुर' शीर्षकमा चाँडै आउँदै छ ।प्रमाणपत्र तहदेखि स्नातकोत्तरसम्म पढाइन्छन् र पढिन्छन् रमेश विकलका कथाहरू । बोर्डिङको पाठ्यक्रममा समेत राखिएका छन् पनि । उनले कसरी लेख्न सिके होलान् ? सम्झनाको एल्बममा पुराना हुँदै गएका दिनको स्मरण गर्छन्- 'उ बेला आरुबारी सानो गाउँ थियो । त्यस्तै ६/७ घर थिए होलान् चालिसे गाउँमा । पराल, छ्वाली र जस्ताले छाएका घरहरू रातो, सेतो, पहेंलो माटाले पोतिएर रंगीचंगी देखिन्थे । गाउँघरमा बूढापाकाहरूले सधैंजसो कथा सुनाउँथे । राति घरमा हजुरआमाले पनि रमाइला कथाहरू सुनाउँथिन् । म आफ्ना साथीहरू बटुल्थें र तिनै कथाहरूमा नयाँ कुरा थपेर सुनाउँथे ।' यसरी सुरु भयो उनको कथा-यात्रा । फरक शैली र प्रस्तुतिमा सुनाएका कथाहरू साथीभाइले बडो चाख मानेर सुन्दा उनलाई हौसला मिल्यो । त्यो बेला निगालाको कलमले रूखका पातबाट बनेको मसीमा चोबेर लेख्ने चलन थियो । 'अहिले त लेख्नु भनेको भात खानुजस्तै लाग्छ,' उनी भन्छन्- 'नलेखी बस्नै सक्दिनँ ।' तन्नेरी छँदा प्राय राति लेख्ने बानी थियो । हिजोआज बिहानै साढे ४ बजे उठिसक्छन् । नुवाइधुवाइ गरेपछि नियमित योग र व्यायाम गर्छन् । अनि सुरु हुन्छ उनको लेखन ।विकल सीमान्तकृत समुदायका प्रवक्ता हुन् भन्दा फरक पर्दैन । उनका कथामा गरबि र निम्न वर्गीय पात्रको बाहुल्य हुन्छ । सडक बढार्ने न्हुछेमाया, लाहुरी भैंसीका लुखुरे हुन् वा चटरी पसल्नी, काइँली अजी, द्वारे वा सबै विकलका कथामा अटाएका छन् । त्यसो हुनुमा उनको बाल्यकालको प्रभाव रहेछ । गाउँमा निम्न वर्गका किसान, ज्यामीका छोराछोरीसँग संगत हुनेगथ्र्यो । तिनैसँगको उठबस, हिँडडुल र तिनका दुःख पीडालाई उनले लेखनमा उतारे । घुमेका ठाउँ, भेटिएका पात्र, घटना र प्रसंग पनि मिसिन्छन् उनका लेखाइमा । लेख्नकै लागि भनेर उनी इन्द्रावती पुगेका छन् । त्यहाँको मण्डन गाउँमा एक महिना बसे । माझीहरूको बसोवास भएको गाउँमा तिनको चालचलन, रीतिरवाज, बसाइउठाइ नजिकबाट नियाले । तिनै कुराहरूलाई समेटेर उपन्यास लेखे, 'अबिरल बग्छ इन्द्रावती', जसको पछि नेपाल टेलिभिजनबाट टेलिशृंखलाका रूपमा समेत प्रसारण भयो । दर्शकहरूले त्यसलाई खुबै रुचाए । 'लाहुरी भैंसी' लेख्दाको पनि रमाइलो प्रसंग छ । दसैंमा टीका लगाउन ससुराली इन्द्रावती गएछन् । सासूले निकै माया गर्ने रहिछन् उनलाई । सधैं ससुरालीमै बसौंबसौं लाग्दो रहेछ । त्यहाँ आएका उनका साडुभाइले हप्काउँदै एकदिन भनेछन्, 'ससुरालीमा धेरै दिन बस्नुहुन्न । पछि तिमीलाई हेला गर्छन् ।' केटौले उमेरका विकलले उनको कुरा पत्याए । पछि दुवैजना सँगै घर र्फकंदा बाटोमा साडुले भैंसी किनेछन् । घरमा लगेर छोराछोरीभन्दा बढी यो भैंसीको स्याहार गरेछन् । सोही कहानीलाई कथा बनाए । मन्दिर जाँदा 'फूल लिनोस् बाजे' भन्ने केटीलाई लिएर 'स्वाना बाज्या' -फूल लिनोस् बाजे) कथा लेखे । नयाँ सडकको पेटीमा माग्ने केटाकेटी देखेपछि 'फुटपाथ मिनिस्टर्स' कथा लेखे ।विकलले साहित्यलाई पेसाका रूपमा कहिल्यै अपनाएनन् । भन्छन्, 'अहंकार नसम्भिmनुस्, मैले कहिल्यै पैसाको मुख हेरिन। जे लेखें समाजका लागि लेखें र त्यसैमा रमाएँ ।' साहित्यलाई पेसा बनाउन सकिँदैन भन्नेमा उनी ढुक्क छन् । उनका किताबका मुख्य प्रकाशक प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठान, साझा प्रकाशन र केही ठूला दैनिकबाहेक अरूले रचनाको पारश्रिमिक नै दिँदैनन् ।यदाकदा विदेशी साहित्य चोरेको आरोप झेलेका छन् विकलले । त्यसलाई उनी चोरेको नभई प्रभावका रूपमा लिन्छन् । भन्छन्, 'मूल भाव एउटै र विषय एउटै हुन्छ तर शैली र दृष्टिकोण फरक हुन्छ । कसैले चोरी भन्छ भने म त्यसमा प्रतिवाद गर्न चाहन्नँ ।'कमैलाई मात्र थाहा होला, रमेश विकल चित्रकार पनि हुन् भनेर । उनका कोठामा बुबा, आमा, हजुरआमा र श्रीमतीका चित्र झुन्डिएका छन् । गन्यो भने झन्डै सयवटा पुग्लान् । महाकवि देवकोटा, युद्धप्रसाद मिश्र, गोपालप्रसाद रिमाल, नातिकाजीदेखि आइन्सटाइनसम्मका पेन्टिङ छन् । कतिले प्रदर्शनी गरौं पनि भनेका छन् रे । बुबाले बनाएको रेखाचित्र हेर्दाहेर्दै उनको ध्यान कथाबाट चित्रकलातिर मोडिएछ । ललितकलामा गएर चन्द्रमान मास्केसँग कला सिक्न भ्याएछन् । एकपटक उनमा गायक बन्ने धुन पनि चढेछ । २००८ सालमा स्वर परीक्षा दिन जाँदा फेल भएछन् । 'कर्मचारीले हाहा, हुहु गरे, गिज्याए,' उनले सो घटना सम्भि“mदै भने । इख लिएर उनी लेखनमै फर्किए । तर उनी वाद्यवादनमा भने उत्तिकै पोख्त छन् ।चन्द्रशेखरका एक्ला छोरा हुन् रमेश विकल । अमिनी जागिरे बुबाको कहिले विराटनगर त कहिले दार्चुला सरुवा हुन्थ्यो । बुबाकै पछिपछि लाग्दा स्कुलस्तरको पढाइ अस्तव्यस्त भयो । २०११ सालमा एसएलसी -प्राइभेट) पास गरे । स्वअध्ययनबाट कलेज अफ एजुकेसनबाट शिक्षा शास्त्रमा बीएड उत्तीर्ण गरे ।दिनहरू बिस्तारै ओरालो लागिरहेछन्, डाँडामा घाम अस्ताएझैं । विकललाई बाल्यकालको बिछट्टै याद आइरहेको छ । अर्को जुनि पाए उनी के बन्न चाहँदा हुन् ? 'अर्को जुनिमा म कहाँ रमेश विकल हुन्छु र ? मान्छे भएर नै जन्मिइने हो कि होइन ?' तर यस समयका उनी एक उत्कृष्ट कथाकार हुन् भन्नेमा चाहिँ विवाद छैन ।

(गत हप्ता बुधबार विकलको निधन भइसकेको छ ।)

2008-12-19T03:58:00.000-08:00

म लेखाइ मा एकदम ब्यस्त छु । फोटाहरु केहिदिनमा राख्नेछु ।

2008-11-29T03:48:00.000-08:00

यि हुन दसैं तिहार का फोटाहरु । अब रौले संसार लाई फोटो ब्लग का रुप मा लैजान खोजेको छु ।

2008-11-19T02:38:00.000-08:00

बाजुरा एफ.एम मा काम गर्ने सचारकर्मी उन्नती रावल

2008-11-19T01:50:00.000-08:00

जोसिला कर्णालीका युबाहरु

2008-11-19T01:26:00.000-08:00

(बङगुर सँग बुढी आमा )

2008-11-19T01:05:00.000-08:00

(बाजुरा को छेडेदह नामक ताल)

(शितल र शुवानी सँग म )

2008-11-19T00:47:00.000-08:00

(सुक्मीत गुरुङ र छोरी आरती सँग म) ( बिराटनगर का कलाकारहरु)

(कर्णाली थियटरका कलाकारहरु)

2008-11-19T00:13:00.000-08:00

बाजुराको बुढीगंगा नदी दख्खिन बग्दैछ

2008-11-18T23:38:00.000-08:00

चिडिया घर जादाको फोटो

2008-10-02T19:56:00.000-07:00

sabai ko man ma khusi chhwos. shuvakamana chha.

2008-10-02T19:41:00.000-07:00

hello everybody,
namaste
happy dashain for all. i will go in my village to celebrate BIJAYA DASHAIN AND TIHAR.finally i decision to go there. I will come kathmandu after one month. n i wll new posting in this blog.

2008-08-25T04:09:00.000-07:00

तपाईं लाई स्वागत छ मेरो नयाँ ब्लग मा हेर्ने होइन त ? जाउ त्यतै तिर । www.swopnilsansar.blogspot.com

2008-06-27T23:33:00.000-07:00

HeNN SCALES EVEREST
Having reached to great heights through its humanitarian and welfare activities, the Help Nepal Network (HeNN) literally climbed the highest peak of the world this season. A veteran mountaineer Mingma Sherpa climbed the Mount Everest this year and along he took the banner of HeNN to the peak.
"I was very happy to have taken with me a banner of Help Nepal Network (HeNN) atop the Everest. It gave me cause to celebrate," said Sherpa who has scaled Mt Everest for 13 times. He is also the first Nepalese to have climbed Mt K2, the second highest mountain in the world.
Speaking at a function, Tuesday (June 17), in Kathmandu held to mark the return of Sherpa from Everest with the banner, he said, "I was particularly glad that I was able to help the campaign to set up hostel for conflict-affected children."
He referred to the campaign by HeNN – a welfare organization of Nepalese living in and outside the country formed to help uplift the underprivileged sections of the country.
The HeNN has been raising funds from among Nepalese living and working overseas. "We started the campaign from Nepal and the United Kingdom urging people to donate one pound a month. In last few years, we have been able to build over a dozen schools, and health posts across the county. We are building a school-cum-hostel in Dhulikhel for conflict-hit children," said Rabindra Mishra, one of the founders of the network.
The HeNN has been motivating Nepalese living in different parts of the world to come together for a noble cause of helping their countrymen. "Nepalese living in different parts of the world are always concerned by the situation in their homeland. They want to do something but they do not have the proper forum to make their contributions. The HeNN was established to act as such vehicle," said Mishra.
Arun Singh Basnet, who looks after the HeNN office in Kathmandu, added that though the network started in 2000 from Nepal and the United Kingdom, it has now spread to 12 countries around the world. The details about the network are available in www.helpnepal.net.

2008-06-27T20:31:00.000-07:00

जीन्‍दगीका पानाह्‍रू
यो स्‍तम्‍भमा रािष्‍ट्रय जीवनका कला साहित्‍यकार पत्रकार चलचित्रकमी सँग कुराकानी गरिनेछ । उनीहरूको जीवनी
प्रस्‍तुत गरिनेछ । चाडै कलाकार मनुजबाबु मिश्र को जीवनी प्रस्‍तुत हुदैछ । प्रतिक्षा गरनुहोस्‌ ।

2008-06-27T02:17:00.005-07:00

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cUnf] / /fdf] 7fpF ePsfn] ef]k'/af6 oxfF cfPsf] xfn al;/x]sf] b'uf{e~hg u'Ndsf ;xfos u'Ndklt ofba k'mofnn] atfP . ^ aif{ b]lv lg/Gt/ ?kdf kF8];af;Lx?sf] hUufdf c8\8f hdfP/ a;]sf] ;]gfn] cem};Dd hUufsf] d'cfAhf glbPsf] :yflgo afl;x?n] u'gf;f] u/]sf 5g\ . xfn pgLx?nfO{ # aif{sf] afnLgflnsf] Ifltk'lt{ dfq lbO{Psf] 5 . lhNnf s[lif ljsf; sfof{no aemfªn] lgwf{/0f u/] cg';f/ ! /f]klg hUuf ldlrPafkt &$)$ ?k}of lhNnf kzf;g sfof{no dfkm{t ljt/0f ul/Psf] 5 . oltn] dfq kof{Kt gePsf] pgLx?sf] u'gf;f] 5 . @ /f]klg hUuf ldlrPsf kF8];sf OGb axfb'/ cf]ln rngrlNt cg';f/ Ifltklt{ lbg'kg]{ atfpF5g\ . cf]lnn] atfPcg';f/ oxfFsf] hUuf klt/f]klg $.% nfvsf] sf/f]af/ x'g] u5{ . xfn ljt/0f ul/Psf] aflngfnLsf] Ifltk"lt{ klt ufpn]x? c;Gt'i6 ag]sf 5g\ . ;fF9] rf/ /f]klg hUuf ldlrPsf v8s v8\sf plrt Ifltk"lt{ lbg'kg]{ atfpF5g\ . pgn] @$ s6\6f cfkm\gf] pAhlg x'g] atfP . ufpn]x?,:yflgo /fhlgtLs bnx? / dfgj clwsf/ d~rn] k6s k6s cfGbf]ng u/]/ :yflgo kzf;g nfO Ifltk'lt{ lbg afWo agfOPsf] 5 .

2008-06-27T02:17:00.004-07:00

खबरदारी जरुरी
जेठ १८ गते बिहान रत्नराज्यलक्ष्मी क्याम्पसमा ०४६ को जनआन्दोलनको 'अझै उठौँ' तस्बिरअङ्कित टिसर्ट लगाएको, बोकेदाह्री पालेको हँसिलो ठिटो प्रमाणपत्र तह दोस्रो वर्षको २० नम्बरको प्रयोगात्मक परीक्षा दिन लाइनमा उभिएको थियो । २०-२५ जनाको हूलमुलमा छिरेको उसमा केही आत्तुरी र छटपटी थियो ।
वैशाख ९ गते दिउँसो तीन बजे त्रिपुरेश्वर मा अत्यन्त भिन्न अवस्थामा थिए, बाजुराको ब्रम्हतोला गाविस-७ का नरेन्द्र रौले, १८ । त्यसो त त्यही दिनको घटनाले गर्दा नै हो उनको जीवनले अर्कै मोड लिएको । राजाको वैशाख ८ गतेको घोषणाको विरोधमा निस् िकएको जुलुसमा तीनकुनेबाट सहभागी भएका नरेन्द्र त्रिपुरेश्वरमा सशस्त्र प्रहरीको गोलीको निसाना बने । "गोली नै त हान्लाजस्तो लागेको थिएन," मोडल अस् पतालमा १० दिनसम्मको उपचारपछि पूर्ववत् जीवनमा फर्केका उनी भन्छन् । आन्दोलनकार ीबीच भागदौड हुँदा उनी त्रिपुरेश्वरको आँखा अस्पतालतिर हान्निए । "मान्छेमाथि मान्छे लडेर बाटो नै बन्द थियो," डेढ महिनाअघिको घटना सम्झन्छन् उनी । उनको देब्रे हातमा गोली लागेको थियो । रेडक्रसका एक स्वास्थ्यकर्मीले ब्यान्डेज लगाइदिए । उनलाई तत्काल मोडल अस्पतालतर्फ दौडाइयो ।
अस्पतालको बेडबाटै कान्तिपुर दैनिकमा एक लेख प्रकाशित गरेर उनले नेताहरूलाई खबरदारी गरे । लेखन, साहित्य त पत्रकारि ताका यी विद्यार्थीको कपको चिया नै भयो । "बेलायततिर बरालिँदा पढेर काठमाडौँमा बरालिन्छु," रौले भन्छन् । अरू साहित्यानुरागीहरू कुनामा बसेर किताब मात्र पढ्छन् । तर, नरेन्द्र किताब पढिसकेपछि त्यसको लेखकलाई नभेटी छाड्दैनन् । नारायण वाग्लेको पल्पसा क्याफे, डीपी भण्डार ीको नीरो बाँसुरी बजाइरहेछ र सरुभक्तको एक अभिनवको आत्मकथा उनले अस्पतालबाट 'डिस् चार्ज' भएपछि छिचोलेका कृति हुन् ।
तर, उपचारपछिको जीवन त्यति सहज छैन । गाउँको पशुपति माविमा पढाउने उनका शिक्ष्ाकबाबु दत्वबहादुर रौलेेले तलबबाट काटेर हरेक महिना पठाउने गरेको पाँच हजार रुपियाँले महिनाको एक हजार चार सय रुपियाँ भाडा तिर्नुछ, भाइलाई पढाउनु छ । भर्खर यौवनको खुट्किलो चढ्दै गरेका नरेन्द्रका सामु सिङ्गो जीवन पनि त छ ।

2008-06-27T02:17:00.003-07:00

गिट्टी कुट्दैछन् रोल्पाली विस्थापित
नरेन्द्र रौले, बझाङ
केही महिनायता रुकुम र रोल्पा लगायतका जिल्लाबाट विस्थापितहरू घर फर्केको खबर आइरहँदा रोल्पाको एक परिवार सुदूर–पश्चिमको बझ्ाङमा गिट्टी कुटेर गुजारा गर्दैछ। जेलवाङ–३ रोल्पाका ७१ वर्षीय जलविरे दमाई र उनकी ४५ वर्षीया श्रीमती विमा नेपाली बझ्ाङको सदरमुकाम चैनपुरमा गिटी कुटेर गुजारा चलाइरहेका छन्। १ फागुन २०५२ बाट माओवादी 'जनयुद्ध' शुरु भएदेखि नै उनीहरू विस्थापित जीवन बिताउँदै आएका छन्। सोही वर्ष जेलवाङको प्रहरी चौकी आक्रमण हुँदा त्यहाँबाट हजारौँ स्थानीयवासी विस्थापित भएका थिए। पुलिसको लुगा सिएको आरोपमा माओवादीले त्यसबेला जलविरेलाई मार्ने धम्की दिएका थिए। केहीदिनमै उनीमाथि खुकुरी प्रहार गरियो। धन्न एउटी महिलाले उनलाई बचाइन्।
त्यसपछि रोल्पा सदरमुकाम लिवाङमा कहिले बालुवा, रोडा बोकेर, कहिले मिस्त्रीको काम गरेर गुजारा चलाउन बाध्य जलविरेलाई सेनाले माओवादी सुराकीको आरोप लगाए। त्यसपछि उनी त्यहाँ पनि टिक्न पाएनन्। अनि, टेवाङका ठेकेदार सुरेश बुढामगरले काम दिलाइदिने आश्वासन दिएर उनलाई बझ्ाङ ल्याए। त्यहाँ उनलाई नहर खन्ने काममा लगाइयो। तर, ठेकेदार मगरले एकवर्ष काम गरेको रु.७२ हजार लिएर बेपत्ता भएपछि जलविरेले झ्नै सास्ती व्यहोर्नु पर्‍यो। जलविरेको परिवारमा दुई छोरा र दुई छोरीसहित ६ जना छन्।
हरेक दिन सेती नदीबाट ढुङ्गा, बालुवा बोकेर गिटी फुटाएर छोराछोरीलाई पढाउन भने उनले छोडेका थिएनन्। तर गत वर्षदेखि सत्यवादी उमाविमा कक्षा ७ मा पढिरहेका उनका १६ वर्षीय छोरा मनबहादुर नेपाली बेपत्ता भएका छन्। “भोजपुर घर भएको केटा चितवनबाट भारत जान लाग्दा मर्‍यो भन्छन्, कतै मेरो छोरो पो पर्‍यो कि!” आमा विमाले रुँदै शङ्का व्यक्ति गरिन्।
जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालय बझ्ाङमा दुईचोटि निवेदन दिएपनि उनले अझ्ै कुनै किसिमको राहत पाउन सकेका छैनन्। आफू निक्कै बूढो भएको भन्दै जलविरेले सरकारसँग हराएको छोराको क्षतिपूर्ति र घर बनाउन आर्थिक सहयोग माग गरेका छन्। यद्यपि, आन्तरिक विस्थापनमा परी विचल्लीमा परेको यो परिवारले अझ्ै आफ्नो जन्मथलो जेलवाङ फर्कने आश भने मारिसकेको छैन।
नरेन्द्र रौले, बझाङ
केही महिनायता रुकुम र रोल्पा लगायतका जिल्लाबाट विस्थापितहरू घर फर्केको खबर आइरहँदा रोल्पाको एक परिवार सुदूर–पश्चिमको बझ्ाङमा गिट्टी कुटेर गुजारा गर्दैछ। जेलवाङ–३ रोल्पाका ७१ वर्षीय जलविरे दमाई र उनकी ४५ वर्षीया श्रीमती विमा नेपाली बझ्ाङको सदरमुकाम चैनपुरमा गिटी कुटेर गुजारा चलाइरहेका छन्। १ फागुन २०५२ बाट माओवादी 'जनयुद्ध' शुरु भएदेखि नै उनीहरू विस्थापित जीवन बिताउँदै आएका छन्। सोही वर्ष जेलवाङको प्रहरी चौकी आक्रमण हुँदा त्यहाँबाट हजारौँ स्थानीयवासी विस्थापित भएका थिए। पुलिसको लुगा सिएको आरोपमा माओवादीले त्यसबेला जलविरेलाई मार्ने धम्की दिएका थिए। केहीदिनमै उनीमाथि खुकुरी प्रहार गरियो। धन्न एउटी महिलाले उनलाई बचाइन्।
त्यसपछि रोल्पा सदरमुकाम लिवाङमा कहिले बालुवा, रोडा बोकेर, कहिले मिस्त्रीको काम गरेर गुजारा चलाउन बाध्य जलविरेलाई सेनाले माओवादी सुराकीको आरोप लगाए। त्यसपछि उनी त्यहाँ पनि टिक्न पाएनन्। अनि, टेवाङका ठेकेदार सुरेश बुढामगरले काम दिलाइदिने आश्वासन दिएर उनलाई बझ्ाङ ल्याए। त्यहाँ उनलाई नहर खन्ने काममा लगाइयो। तर, ठेकेदार मगरले एकवर्ष काम गरेको रु.७२ हजार लिएर बेपत्ता भएपछि जलविरेले झ्नै सास्ती व्यहोर्नु पर्‍यो। जलविरेको परिवारमा दुई छोरा र दुई छोरीसहित ६ जना छन्।
हरेक दिन सेती नदीबाट ढुङ्गा, बालुवा बोकेर गिटी फुटाएर छोराछोरीलाई पढाउन भने उनले छोडेका थिएनन्। तर गत वर्षदेखि सत्यवादी उमाविमा कक्षा ७ मा पढिरहेका उनका १६ वर्षीय छोरा मनबहादुर नेपाली बेपत्ता भएका छन्। “भोजपुर घर भएको केटा चितवनबाट भारत जान लाग्दा मर्‍यो भन्छन्, कतै मेरो छोरो पो पर्‍यो कि!” आमा विमाले रुँदै शङ्का व्यक्ति गरिन्।
जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालय बझ्ाङमा दुईचोटि निवेदन दिएपनि उनले अझ्ै कुनै किसिमको राहत पाउन सकेका छैनन्। आफू निक्कै बूढो भएको भन्दै जलविरेले सरकारसँग हराएको छोराको क्षतिपूर्ति र घर बनाउन आर्थिक सहयोग माग गरेका छन्। यद्यपि, आन्तरिक विस्थापनमा परी विचल्लीमा परेको यो परिवारले अझ्ै आफ्नो जन्मथलो जेलवाङ फर्कने आश भने मारिसकेको छैन।

2008-06-27T02:17:00.002-07:00

मुखले लेख्ने गीतकार

• नरेन्द्र रौले
सशस्त्र द्वन्द्वको शिकार बनेका टीका बम्जन (२८) पेशाले नेपाली सैनिक हुन्। उनले चार वर्षअघिको एक भिडन्तमा दुवै हात गुमाए। तर, हात नभए पनि उनका मन–मस्तिष्कबाट उब्जेका सिर्जनाहरू रोकिएनन्। सुन्दा अचम्म लाग्न सक्छ; उनी मुखले गीत लेख्छन्। हात नभएपछि शुरुमा खुट्टाले लेख्ने प्रयास गरेँ तर सफल नभएपछि मुखले लेख्न थालेँ। उनी भन्छन्, “अहिले मुखले लेख्दा सजिलो लाग्न थालेको छ।”
'कस्तो भाग्य' नामक पहिलो अल्बममा उनीद्वारा रचित आठ वटा गीतहरूमा उनले आफ्नै जीवन–कथा पोखेका छन्। मुखको सहाराले लेखेका गीतहरू सङ्गीत र स्वरमा सजिएर अल्बममा समेत आएपछि उनी दङ्ग छन्। पछिल्लो पटक उनले श्री म्युजिक प्रा.लि.बाट आफैँ लगानी गरेर 'प्रेमिका' अल्बम बजारमा ल्याएका छन् जसको म्युजिक भिडियो पनि तयार भइसकेको छ। दुवै अल्बममा चन्द्रकुमार दोङले सङ्गीत दिएका छन् भने ईश्वर अमात्य, कर्णदास, शिव परियार, रामचन्द्र काफ्ले, त्रिलोक राना आदिले स्वर दिएका छन्।
परिवारको कमजोर आर्थिक अवस्थाका कारण २०५६ सालमा नेपाली सेनामा प्रवेश गरेका राजघाट–२, सर्लाहीका बम्जन सेवाको क्रममा रुकुम, रोल्पा, सल्यानलगायत काभ्रे, धादिङ र भक्तपुरजस्ता विभिन्न जिल्लाहरूमा पुगे। थुप्रै ठाउँमा उनी दोहोरो भिडन्तमा परे। तर २०५९ सालमा सूर्यविनायकबाट २८ जनाको टोलीमा नगरकोटतर्फ सर्च गर्न जाँदा भएको भिडन्तमा लड्दालड्दै आफ्नै सुरक्षाका लागि राखिएको विद्युतीय धरापमा परेर उनले दुवै हात गुमाए।
गीत/सङ्गीतलाई जीवनको साथी ठान्ने उनी भन्छन्, “गीतमा दुःख, सुख पोख्न सकिन्छ, त्यसैले म गीत लेख्छु।” जीवनप्रति आशावादी बम्जनको बुझाइमा जीवनमा मानिसले चाह्यो भने गर्न नसकिने केही छैन। आफूले लेखेका गीत आफैँ गाउने धोको पूरा गर्न अहिले उनी गायन प्रशिक्षण समेत लिइरहेका छन्।

2008-06-27T02:17:00.001-07:00

पाहुनाको चर्पी
गाउमा एउटै मात्र चर्पी छ । त्यो पनि गाउलेको प्रयोगका लागि होइन, पाहुनाहरूका लागि मात्र । गाउमा आफन्तकहा आउने पाहुनाहरूको समस्यालाई ध्यानमा राखेर कुल्देवमाडा गाविस-२, बाजुरा देनसायलको खडायत टोलबासीले २०६० सालमा यो चर्पी बनाएका हुन् । यसको प्रयोग पाहुनाबाहेक अरूले गर्न नपाउने नियम बसाएका छन् उनीहरूले ।
एक दर्जन घरपरविारको बसोवास भएको सो बस्तीका बासिन्दाहरूचाहि दिसा-पिसाबका लागि झाडी र खोलामा जाने गर्छन् । स्थानीय कर्ण्र्ााादुर खडायत भन्छन्, "पाहुनाहरू चर्पी कता छ भनेर सोध्छन् । सधै खोलामा जानु भन्नु पनि लाजको कुरा भो, त्यसैले पाहुनालाई चर्पी बनाएका हा“ै ।'
नरेन्द्र रौले/बाजुरा

स्वर्गको टुर्का

2008-06-27T02:17:00.000-07:00

-भोजराज भाट
कुनै वेला वेला भारतको जम्मुकश्मिर जन्मेका श्री १००८ परमहंस सच्चिदानन्द सरस्वती स्वामीलाई राजा वीरेन्द्रले बुढानिलकण्ठमा सुविधासपन्न मठ बनाइदिने सदिच्छा राख्दा उनले तुरुन्तै जवाफ फर्काए, “मेरो मन पर्ने स्थान खप्तड हो, यसको विकल्प भनेकै यही ठाउँ हो ।” त्यसपछि वीरेन्द्रले उनको इच्छा पुर्‍याउन एक सैनिक गुल्म खप्तडमा तैनाथ गराए । पछि, त्यही गुल्मले खप्तड राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्जको पनि सुरक्षा गर्न थाल्यो ।
वर्षमा चार महिना हिउँले सेताम्मे हुने खप्तडको हावापानी अन्य पहाडभन्दा विशिष्ट खालको छ । यहाँ अन्य आठ महिनामा पनि छिनभरमा घाम लाग्ने, बादल ढाक्ने र पानी पर्ने हुन्छ । ३२०० मिटरको उचाइमा रहेको खप्तड हिन्दुकुश हिमालय पर्वत श्रंखलासँग जोडिएको छ । तैपनि यहाँको जमिन थलथले छ । हिंड्दा खुट्टा गाविन्छ । खप्तडको कुनै पनि त्यस्तो ठाउँ छैन, जहाँ सुख्खा जमिन होस् ।
हिमाली क्षेत्र भए पनि शितोष्ण -सव-अल्पाइन जङ्गलले भरिभराऊ ठाउँ । लटम्मै घाँसे मैदान र मैदानमा फुलेका सयौंथरि फुलहरू । एउटै क्षेत्रमा २२ वटा विशाल पाटनहरू भएको खप्तड आफैंमा रहस्यको पोको भएको छ । त्रिवेणी, सहस्रलिङ्ग, खापरदह, नागढुङ्गा, गणेशस्थानलगायत विभिन्न किम्दन्ती बोकेको यस ठाउँमा कति प्रकारका जडिबुटी पाइन्छन् भन्ने ठोस अध्ययन अनुसन्धान भएकै छैन । राजधानीबाट एक हजार किलोमिटर दुरदराजमा पर्ने खप्तडको रहस्य खोतल्न अहिलेसम्म् कुनै विशेषज्ञको पाइलो परेको छैन ।
संयोगवश, मलाई यसपटक खप्तड जाने अवसर जुर्‍यो । खप्तडबाबासम्बन्धी नानाथरि परिकल्पना बोक्दै मैले सुरू गरे, काठमान्डु-धनगढीको यात्रा । धनगढी विमानस्थलमा उत्रिएपछि सुरू भयो, दिपायल सिलगढीको यात्रा । अत्तररियाबाट किया माइक्रो बस चढेपछि ६ घन्टामा पुर्‍याइदिने रहेछ, सिलगढी । एक दिन सिलगढी बास बसेपछि त्यसको भोलिपल्ट १५ किमि टाढा शान्तिबजारसम्म मोटरमा गइ त्यहाँबाट उकालो उक्लिनु पर्ने भयो ।
उसो त बझाङ, बाजुरा, डोटी र अछामगरि चार जिल्लाको संगमस्थल हो खप्तड । आजकाल वैतडीको खोड्पे भएर बझाङबाट बसयात्रा गरेपछि त्यहाँ जम्मा चार घन्टामै खप्तड पुगिन्छ । तर, म सिलगढी पुगिसकेकोले फेरि वैतडी फर्किने कुरै भएन । बाजुरामा अहिलेसम्म सडक नपुगेकोले त्यहाँबाट जाने विकल्पमा बुझो लाग्यो । उता अछामबाट पनि सात घन्टा ठाडै उकालो पर्ने भएकोले सिलगढीबाट खप्तडतिरको यात्रा सजिलो लाग्यो । र, ल्यापटप क्यामेरा बोक्दै सोझिए सिलगढी-खप्तडको यात्रातिर ।
शान्तिबजारबाट झिङ्ग्रेना आधा दिन र झिङ्गे्रनाबाट बीचपानी हुँदै सुकीदह भएर खप्तड पुग्ने अर्को पुरापुर एक दिन । यसरी डेढ दिन लाग्दो रहेछ, सिलगढी-खप्तडको यात्रा । झिङ्गे्रनादेखि बीचपानीसम्मको पाँच घन्टा लामो उकालोले जोसुकैलाई सातो खादो रहेछ । दुःख लाग्दो कुरा, देशदुनियाँको नजरमा खप्तडको महिमा महान भए पनि स्थानीयबासिन्दा र नेताहरुको दृष्टिमा पानीपधेरोजस्तै रहेछ । उनीहरूले पर्यटकका लागि चाहिने न्यूनतम पूर्वाधार बनाएको केही पाइएन । छ घन्टाको उकालो एक ठाउँमा पनि पिउने पानी नभेटिंदा यात्रुहरू प्यासले प्याकप्याक हुँदारहेछन् । अनि खोल्साको फोहर पानी नपिइ नहुने बाध्यता आइलाग्छ ।
खप्तड पुगेपछि र्स्वर्ग पुगेको आभाष नठान्नेहरू सायदै होलान् । उकालैउकालो चढेपछि डाँडाको टाकुरामा देखिन्छ, पुरै हरियो फाँटैफाँटहरू । जताजतै रङ्गीविरङ्गी फूलहरू अनि गोठालाहरू आफ्नै धुनमा देउडा गाइरहेको दृश्य साच्चिकै लोभलाग्दो थियो । जेठको पूणिर्मामा खप्तडमा दशहरा मेला लाग्दो रहेछ । यस मेला हेर्नका लागि सुदूरपश्चिमेलीहरू घरबाटै ओढ्नेओछ्याउने वन्दोवस्त गरेर यहाँ आउँदा रहेछन् । मेलामा विभिन्नथरिका देउडाहरू, स्थानीय संस्कृति भुवो, हुड्क्या आदि प्रदर्शन हेर्न पाइयो । यही मेलाकै वेला नेपाली सेनाको सुदुरपश्चिम पृतनापति कार्यालयले विशेष पुजा गर्दो रहेछ । त्यो पुजामा सहभागी हुन हरेक वर्ष पृतनापति आफै हेलिकप्टरमा आउने चलन छ । हेलिकप्टर हेर्नकै लागि भए पनि कतिपय स्थानीयबासिन्दा यस मेलामा आउँदा रहेछन् ।

खप्तड, प्राकृतिक हिसाबले ठाउँ जति रमाइलो छ, तर त्यहाँ बस्ने खानेको कुनै व्यवस्था रहेनछ । निकुञ्जको क्षेत्र भएकोले यहाँ होटेल राख्न नपाइने नियम रहेछ । राम्रो ठाउँमा सुत्न र खानका लागि पैसा तिर्छु भन्दा पनि नपाइने रहेछ, यहाँ । तपाईंहरू पनि जीवनमा खप्तड जाने सुरसार कस्नु भएको छ भने यसतर्फ वेलेमै सचेत हुनुहोला । सकभर, बाइनाकुलर बोकेर, टेन्ट र खानेकुरा आफै बन्दोबस्त गयो भने खप्तड साच्चिकै पृथ्वीको र्स्वर्ग महसस हुन्छ तपाईंलाई ।

cafe corner

2008-06-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

cafe corner is a column.where i write whoever i meet in the cafe. it is not necessary to cafe.wherether it would be street,or resort, restura,club,pub anyway but the style would be cafe talk with me. i will invite in this column mainly journalist,journalist teacher and also artist serially.Do you like my vision?If you suggest me anything ? please write soon.

walking in the way

2008-06-23T19:17:00.000-07:00

yesterday morning i m going in my college. same day SLC reasult out.In the early morning my father called me from my home to look someones symbol number.

i went in over 12 newspaper shop but no where i found paper.walking in the way i reach in Anamnagar where some people are searching the symbol number in Annapurnapost.i stay there.i also searh the number . sagarmatha television captured the scene of viewer of newspaper lookers. and one ladies journalist recording our voices in the spot.
i speak 'i can't found newspaper anywhere' she wan't record it.she start her recorder and allow me to speak the line.i can't speak it fluently.she questioned me serially and i answered.
After that i want to introduced with her.i look on her and aked her name.she told 'Mina Pandey' from Ujjyalo national network. i surprise listenning that. Because i used to hear her voice in fm radio. And i really like her sound. i want to meet her before this. But accidently we meet this situation.
Then we went together until our college.i enter in my college and she went alone in Newroad for the reporting.
After returning college i went in Babar Mahal with my fren sitaram.we look the photo exhibition there. then our step are Martin chautari.after reaching there i bring some newspapers in outside of the office. i start to reading the newspers.there is a bottle of water and sitting the foreign girl near me.i asked her 'can i drink this water?'she speak nepali but can't fluently speak.
Then our conversation stard. she was comming from Bela Rush.study in England.she came Nepal for her M.phil research paper.she want to know youth and children experiences in Moist.I tell her as i know about it.I tell to help her as i can.she eager to know about Nepali culture,Nepali language and tourist area of Nepal.I help her as i can.i m very happy to meet her.today morning she mail me that was:

Dear Narendra,
it was really nice to meet you today and talk not only about researchquestions but also about more wider range of themes which are also interesting. I would appreciate if you helped me to meet some people for my research. AndI hope that you could show me a bit more of Nepali culture, theatre orsomething that is usually hidden for the "tourists" who arrive in the countryfor the first time. I would also try to share the knowledge or ideas I havewith you. Perhaps, see you soon.
Sincerely,
Ina.
and i mail her to meet soon.

2008-06-17T20:56:00.000-07:00

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hgcfGbf]ngsf sddf )^# a}zfv ( ut] lqk/]Zj/df dnfO{ uf]ln nfu]sf] lyof] . kl/at{gsf kIfdf d'l¶x? s:b} dfga;fu/ eQmk'/af6 zx/sf laleGg efux? kl/sdf ub}{ 'lqk/]Zj/ k'Ubf h'n'zdfyL lbp;f] # ah] uf]nL rnfOPsf] lyof] . Tolx a]nf d]/f] afFof xftdf uf]nL nfu]sf] lyof] . efUb} efUb} uf]nL nfu]sf] 7fpFaf6 cfFvf c:ktfn leq uPsf] lyPF . Tolx a]nf dnfO{ uf8Ldf /fv]/ /]8s;sf p4f/sdL{n] sf7df8f} df]8]n c:ktfn k'¥ofPsf lyP .

dfgjtfk]ld g]kfnL bfh'efO{x?n] p7fPsf] k}zfn] 3fOt]x?sf] pkrf/ ePsf] lyof] . xfdf] hLjg arfpg] lt bfh'efOx? klt xfdL ;b}a C0fL /xg]5f} . To;}u/L xfdLnfO{ ;xof]u k¥ofpg] ;+:yfsf kltlglwx? / cf/cf/ SofDk;sf ;'/]Gb a:g]tsf] l6d klt klg cfef/L 5' . Tof] a]nf c:ktfnsf] z}ofdf nl8/xbf s]lx g]tfx? e]6\g cfPsf lyP . pgLx?n] eg]sf lyP æxfdL tkfOsf] alnbfgL v]/ hfg lbg] 5}gf+} . tkfOnfO{ lzIff,:jfYo / /f]huf/L lbnfpg]5f} .Æt/ s]lx dlxgf kl5 ltgn] cfkm'n] u/]sf ;a} afrfx? e'n] . 3fOt]x?sf nfuL u/]sf s'g} klta4tf / 3f]if0ffx? k'/f ePgg\ . g xfdLn] clxn] ;Dd plrt Ifltk"lt{ kfPsf 5f}+ . g t lzIff,:jf:Yo / /f]huf/L g} kfPsf 5f} . g]tfx?n] cfkmgf dfG5]nfO{ k6s k6s Ifltk"lt{ lbP . gSsnL 3fOt] agfpb} sfo{stf{x?nfO{ /sd afF8] t/ ;a{;fwf/0fx?nfO Ps k6s klg Ifltk"lt{ lbnfOPg .

hgcfGbf]ngsf 3fOt] ;xof]u tyf ;dGjo ;ldltsf cg';f/ clxn] b]ze/L s/La ( xhf/ ulDe/ ks[ltsf 3fOt] 5g\ . ltgn] cem} /fdf] pkrf/ kfpg ;s]sf 5}gg\ . sf]lx cem} c:ktfnsf z}ofd} 5g\ . ;+a]bglzn c+udf uf]nL nfu]sf] 5 . 5ftL / 6fpsf]af6 uf]ln lemSg cem} ;lsPsf] 5}g . kL8fbflo hLjg afFRg kl//x]sf] 5 . lgs} b'v si6 em]Ng'kl//x]sf] 5 . xfdLnfO{ ;Dk"0f{ ?kdf a]jf:tf ul/Psf] 5 . cf/cf/ SofDk;df kqsfl/tfdf aLP bf];f] aif{df cWoog ul//x]sf] hgcfGbf]ngsf] 3fOt] d g/]Gb /f}n]nfO{ of] b]zsf s'g}} klqsfn] clxn] ;Dd @ dlxgfsf nfuL OG6g{l;k ;d]t ug{ lbOPsf] 5}g . o;af6} ki6 x'G5f} xfdLnfO{ /fHonfO{ slt a]jf:tf ul/Psf] 5 eg]/ . 3fOt]x?nfO{ lzIff,:jf:Yo /f]huf/Lsf] k"0f{ Uof/]lG6 ul/g'k5{ / pkrf/df Wofg k'¥ofOgk5{ . ;Dk"0f{ 3fOt]x?sf] olx hf]8bf/ olx dfu 5 .

ef]ln d'n'sn] nf]stGq lbj; dgfpg uO/x]sf] 5 . 6'Fl8v]ndf kwfgdlGq,dlGq / g]tfx? zlxbsf] ;Demgfdf Ps ldg]6 df}g wf/0f ug]{5g\ . sfo{sddf w]/}n] Psl5gsf nfuL hgcfGbf]ngsf 3fOt] / zlxbnfO ;Demb} sfo{sd ug]{5g\ . t/ ef]lnkN6 la;{g]5g\ . t/ xfdLn] o:tf] b]Vg gk/f];\ .

gof g]kfnsf] ;kgf af]s]sf ;Dk"0f{ g]kfnL hgtfx?n] gof kl/at{gsf ;fy d'n'sdf rfF8} nf]stflGqs u0ftGq,;+l3o :j;f;g sf] gof kl/sNkgf u/]sf 5g\ . Tof] ;kgfn] d"t{ ?k lng] lbg ca glhlsb} 5g\ . xfdL ;a} Tof] lbgsf] Aou kltIff df 5f}+ . xfdf ;Dk"0f{ xs clwsf/x? ca aGg] ;+lawfgdf n]lvg'k5{ . olb hgefagf / hgrfxgfsf] sb/ ePg eg] zlxbsf] alnbflg v]/ hfg]5 . / ;Dk"0f{ 3fOt]x?sf] ckdfg x'g]5 .

g]kfnL hgtfx?n] P]ltxfl;s hgcfGbf]ngdf b]vfPsf] zlQmsf] kb{zg Pa+ xfn} ;DkGg ;+lawfg;efsf] r'gfadf b]lvPsf] pT;fxhgs ;xeflutfn] casf] dfu{ :ki6 eO;s]sf] 5 . hgtfx? ljj]slzn / ;r]t alg;s]sf 5g\ . ca g]kfnL hgtfx? yf]qf k'/fgf /fhlgtLs ;+:sf/ / ;+:s[lt rfxb}gg\ . gof ljrf/ / g]t[Tj rfxG5g\ . Tof] s'/f ;+lawfg;efsf] dt kl/0ffdn] klg b]vfO;s]sf] 5 .

xfdLnfO{ of] :jl0f{d If0f ;Dd Nofpg cd'No hLjg u'dfpg] dxfg zlxbx?n] b]vfPsf] af6f]df lx8f}+ . 3fOt]sf] ;Ddfg u/f}+ . olx g} nf]stGq kltsf] ;RRff OdfGbf/Ltf x'g]5 . ca pbfpg] laxflgsf] ;"o{sf ls/0f ;Fu} g]kfn u0ftflGqs d'n's ag]sf] b]Vg kfOof];\ . gof g]kfn b]Vg kfOof];\ . nf]stGq lbj;sf] olx 5 d]/f] z'esfdgf .

alxgLx?nfO{ clxn] lgs} ;lDem/x]sf] 5' . hLjgdf afFr]/ s]lx ug{ / lg/Gt/ n]lv/xg xf};nf lbg] snfsf/ dg'hafa' ld> nfO{ klg ;lDem/x]sf] 5' . cfkmGt gePsf] sf7df8f} zx/df cflTdo dfof ug]{ 6]jf ;+:yfls tf/f lbbL nufot w]/} nfO{ la;{g ;s]sf] 5}g . Pp6f sfo{sddf pxfFn] dfof u/L lbPsf km"nx? cem} sf]7fdf ;hfP/ /fv]sf] 5' . tf/f lbbL, cflv/ dfofsf km"nx? slxn] kf] cf]Onfpbf /x]5g\ / <>

zQf / zlQmsf] d'n s]GblaGb' eg]sf hgtf x'g\ / Tosf] cfaZos kof]u ug]{ clwsf/ klg hgtfd} lglxt 5 eGg] s'/fnfO{ P]ltxfl;s hgcfGbf]ngn] kdfl0ft ul/;s]sf] 5 . cfkm\gf] efUo cfkm} sf]g]{,d'n'snfO{ ;'Gb/ / ;an agfpg] ,lab]zL x:tIf]kaf6 hf]ufpg] nufot y'k}} ;kgf af]s]/ ef/lto gfu/Ls df]xDdb hxflu/ vfF nufot @! hgf jL/ g]kfnLn] cfkm\gf] Hofg ;w}sf nfuL u'dfP . / nfvf}+ hgtfx? kx/Lsf uf]nL,nf7L,c>'Uof;sf l;sf/ eP . cem} klg lgsf] geP/ c:ktfnsf z}ofdf 5g\ . hgcfGbf]ngsf 3fOt] lai0f'nfn dxh{g x\jLnlro/sf] ;xf/fdf hLjg u'hfl//x]sf 5g\ . d's]z sfo:y Kof/fnfOl;; ca:yfdf 5g\ . nlntk'/sf /lag >]i7n] cfFvf u'dfPsf 5g\ . clxn] pgL gSsnL cfFvf /fv]/ b'vbfoL hLjg afFlr/x]sf 5g\ . sf7df8f}ls rf}w alif{of ;'lgtf cfrfo{sf] 6fpsfdf uf]nL nfu]sf] 5 .pgL klg kL8fbfoL hLjg afFlr/x]ls l5g\ .

cfdg]kfnL hgtfx?n] gof kl/at{gsf ;fy d'n'sdf rfF8} nf]stflGqs u0ftGq,;+l3o :j;f;g ;lxtsf] gof g]kfnsf] kl/sNkgf u/]sf 5g\ . Tof] ;kgfn] d"t{ ?k kfpFg] lbg glhlsb} cfPsf] 5 . xfdL Tof] lbgsf] Aou kltIff df 5f}+ . xfdf ;Dk"0f{ xs clwsf/x? ca aGg] ;+lawfgdf n]lvg'k5{ .olb hgefagf / hgrfxgfsf] sb/ ePg eg] zlxbsf] albbflg v]/ hfg]5 . / ;Dk"0f{ 3fOt]x?sf] ckdfg x'g]5 . g]kfnL hgtfx?n] P]ltxfl;s hgcfGbf]ngdf b]vfPsf] zlQmsf] kb{zg Pa+ xfn} ;DkGg ;+lawfg;efsf] r'gfadf b]lvPsf] pT;fxhgs ;xeflutfn] casf] dfu{ :ki6 eO;s]sf] 5 . hgtfx? ljj]slzn / ;r]t alg;s]sf 5g\ . ca g]kfnL hgtfx? yf]qf k'/fgf /fhlgtLs ;+:sf/ / ;+:s[lt rfxb}gg\ . gof ljrf/ / g]t[Tj rfxG5g\ . Tof] s'/f ;+lawfg;efsf] dt kl/0ffdn] b]vfO;s]sf] 5 .

d'n's nf]stGq lbj; dgfpg uO/x]sf] 5 . 6'Fl8v]ndf kwfgdlGq,dlGq / g]tfx? zlxbsf] ;Demgfdf Ps ldg]6 df}g wf/0f ug]{5g\ . sfo{sddf w]/}n] Psl5gsf nfuL hgcfGbf]ngsf 3fOt] / zlxbnfO ;Demb} sfo{sd ug]{5g\ . t/ ef]lnkN6 la;{g]5g\ . t/ xfdLn] o:tf] b]Vg gk/f];\ .

g]kfn u0ftGq pGd'v x'b}5 . xfdL cfzf u/f} rfF8} xfdf] b]z ;'Gb/ / ;an aGg]5 . ca aGg] ;+lawfgdf ul/a,ls;fg,dhb'/,blnt,hghflt dw]lz,kxfl8 la} c6fpFg]5g\ . g]kfnL hgtfnfO{ ;'xfpg] / g]kfnL hgtfsf] cfsf+Iff ;d]l6Psf] z;Qm ;+lawfg aGg]5 . xfdLnfO{ of] :jl0f{d If0f ;Dd Nofpg cd'No hLjg u'dfpg] dxfg zlxbx?n] b]vfPsf] af6f]df lx8f}+ . 3fOt]sf] ;Ddfg u/f}+ . olx g} nf]stGq kltsf] ;RRff OdfGbf/Ltf x'g]5 . nf]stGq lbj;sf] olx 5 d]/f] z'esfdgf .

Former king Gyanendra's press release

2008-06-15T01:06:00.000-07:00

Ruling over 240 years monarhy abolished from country.Gyanendra bacame last king of shah dyanasty.on 11 june 2008 he started his journey commner from Narayanhity Royal palace to Nagarjun Durbar with his wife Komal shah.
He arranged his first and last historic press release in Narayanhity at that time. same prss release is herer.
Dear Nepalese brothers and sisters,
This country which came into being 240 years back as a garden of four castes and thirty-six sub castes as imagined and established by our ancestor His Majesty, the Great King Prithivi Narayan Shah, is going through a period of very serious and sensitive upheaval. It is well known that the Nepalese Monarchy which has always been activised for the people’s prosperity and progress has always been working together and cooperating with the happiness and woes of Nepalese people. Burning examples of that are unification, preservation of nationalism, democratization, and modernization
through the united efforts of the king and national integrity as equivalent to the value of our lives. Our committed energized feelings towards these values and standards have remained constant from the past and are equally strong in the present and will remain so in the future.
I would like to inform everybody concerned that when seven years back because of an unnatural, unexpected and tragic incident while shouldering the responsibility of Head of the state according to the national heritage and ages of old monarchical traditions, I had no other interests except considerations for the sovereignty, independence, national pride, territorial integrity, peace and institutional development of democratic, and overall progress of all the citizens. In the then Hindu kingdom of Nepal, the birth place of Buddha the efforts started, with the best of intention trying to ensure the peace and prosperity in the country were not successful overtime, which I have already accepted earlier. The chain of events and ensuring results are obvious to everybody like an open book.
I would like to express, with God as my witness, certain things which I couldn’t express earlier because of my official responsibilities but which was troubling my inner heart all the time, through you dear journalist friends to my Nepalese brothers and sisters and the international community. May be we should call it a destiny that when I was innocent child, I had neither any wish nor desire nor any possibility of having a distinct role except the compulsion to have to quietly accept the crown. Likewise, for the second time when an unimaginable and horrifying event took place on the night of Jestha 19th, 2058, I could not express through word my internal pain when I was compelled and tied up by the chains of tradition and duty without being even able to shed tears over the mortal remains of those respected and beloved family members and lighten the burden of pain at the gruesome destruction of my close relatives. Even at that time some people blamed and accused me and my family with great indiscretion and cruelty but we had no alternative but to tolerate that too, nor were there people who spoke on our behalf. Being prejudiced against me and my family members the efforts which were continuously started through different means by taking advantage of those circumstances and events, have been very painful to us and are still so. Other members of Royal family who were wounded and but survived the incident in the Royal Palace are still alive. They are also witness to it. The bullet fragments, which couldn’t not be taken out for technical reason are still in the body of my wife who was also wounded and survived. The detailed facts had also come out from the medical doctors involved in their treatment. The high level Royal Investigation Commission had already made public the detailed report about the incident. When all Nepalese people and the Royal Family were overwhelmed with grief, at that time, to level accusations and blame in this way seems to be a strategy to damage the goodwill of the Nepalese people towards the institution of Monarchy and to spread ill will, which was also not compatible with human suffering.
Likewise, I have also heard false rumors about allegations that I have property abroad. All my property is in Nepal. I have no movable or immovable property in foreign lands. The property which had been bequeathed to me from my ancestors, according to Nepalese laws is also not in my name and I have institutionalized it maintaining that property and have only conserved it. During the last seven years neither have I added to any property nor have I taken any actions by which the traditional property of any members of the Royal family. I believe that I would also have rights to maintain private property according to the prevalent laws of Nepal.
Respecting Constitutional Assembly elections and the decision taken by the constituent assembly meeting on Jestha 15th, I am cooperating in every way towards the successful implementation of that decision. I have not also thought of leaving the country. I would like to leave in my own Motherland and contribute in whatever way possible for greater good of the country and peace in this land. I believe that there will be support from all sectors.
I pledge to be completely dedicated to the independence and territorial integrity of the nation of Nepal which was formed and has remained independent and sovereign because of the blood, sweet and sacrifice of the great ancestors of us Nepalese, wherever and whatever circumstances I may be in. I love the independence of this nation. My feelings and sentiments are that of sanctity, individuality and original values of this independent nation should always be preserved. My heartfelt good wishes are for the overall welfare of the self respecting common Nepalese people.
Today, on this date, I have handed over the Crown and Scepter used by the Kings of Shah dynasty and which has remained as heirloom in this dynasty to the Government of Nepal for safekeeping and protection for ages to come.
Finally, on behalf of my family members and myself, I would like to express my sorrow, if anybody has been inadvertently hurt by actions of my own or of the members of my family while I was working as Head of State for the welfare of Nepal and the Nepalese. I would like to express gratitude to all citizens, constitutional organs, judicial sector, security organizations, civil servants, teachers, professors, students,
(kantipur daily Editor Narayan wagle takeing picture up)
farmers, laborers, industrialists, businessmen, intellectual youths, religious organizations, journalists, civil society, personnel working in the Royal palace service and all others from different walks of life and all the other associated Nepalese inside and outside Nepal who extended their cooperation to me. I would also like to thank the friendly neighboring countries who have always wished well for Nepal, the international community and representative of diplomatic corps. I would also like to thank the members of the Committees for Security and management recently deputed by the Government of Nepal. I would like to thank the government of Nepal for all the help and cooperation extended to me. I also hope that like now, I would keep on getting the same level of necessary cooperation from the Government of Nepal in the future too.
May Lord Pashupatinath bless us all.Jaya Nepal
Date: June 11, 2008

know more about me

2008-06-09T02:02:00.000-07:00

Few introduction about me.
who i am?
I m running 20 years.writing these line may 9 2008(2065 jestha 27).
doing freelancing in different magazines and newspapers.i am far from away western development region.
what is the aim in life?

I want to be a good journalist and a writer.

I also want to teach journalism in college.

what are my hobbies?

travelling,reading literature,blogging,compose poem and lyrics also.

favourite books?

Pagal basti,samaya trasadi,Palpasa cafe,sooch,sumnima,shirishko ful,Gauthali ko gud

favourite Magazine ,news papers?
In english :Time,India today,Newsweek,Nepali Times

In nepali:Himal,Nepal

Do you want to contact me?

recently living in New Baneshwor
Email:narendra.raule@gmail.com
contact number:9841605756

Rolpa news

2008-06-09T01:22:00.000-07:00

Peacetime in a war zone

War over, development hopes run high in the Maoist heartland

by kishwor Rimal

The scenic little town of Thabang is where the Maoist insurgency began in 1996, and its inhabitants are proud of their role in spearheading the movement which eventually led to the declaration of a federal republic in Nepal last week.
The villages of Rolpa found themselves the target of the police's Operation Kilo Sierra 2 and Operation Romeo in 1997-99, intended to root out the budding Maoist movement. But the brutal crackdowns actually increased the Maoists' support here.
The war had a profound effect on the village. Many students dropped out of school, either to join the PLA or simply to flee. "We had to go to Libang for our SLC exams, and if we met the police they would capture and torture us," recalls Dhan Bahadur Roka who escaped the chaos by going to Saudi Arabia. Now he is home again and runs a telephone booth.
The people of Thabang are now working to rebuild the destruction, and there are a number of youth organisations working to set up services and infrastructure in the remote VDC.
Youth groups have built both a library and a computer centre in Thabang. The library is named after the first villagers to be killed in the war, Dil Man Roka and Lali Roka. "We are not on the power grid here, but we can run the computers with a diesel generator," says Mahesh Budha Magar.
A new learning centre has also recently opened, and 100 children have already enrolled. Lakab CELEBRATION TIME: The Jaljala festival atThabang.

Bahadur Magar says, "It was difficult to start this centre because we have so few resources. But our youth groups put in a lot of time and labour for free." Lakab Bahadur hopes to electrify the village next year by building a hydroplant.
The locals are also hoping to market their village as a tourist destination. The first Jaljala Festival was celebrated this year on 20-22 May. Anera Roka hopes that the festival can become a crowd-puller for tourists and thus create more job opportunities for local youth, many of whom are still unemployed or underemployed. Maoist leader Santosh Budha Magar credits village youth with thinking up the festival and helping organise it.
The youth of Thabang are as relieved as anyone that the war is over. Now they hope for political stability and an environment in which they can earn a living for themselves and build a future for their children. "We suffered so much in the war. I hope our children will never have to experience that," says Tilak BK.
Facilities and opportunities in the village are slowly increasing. There is now a higher secondary school in the village so children can study up to class 12.
But after education people also need jobs. Many end up going to the Gulf to work. Those who remain are hoping for some investment from the government or the NGOs.
The Maoists state that they are amenable to working with donor agencies, but they are adamant that all programs should be community-based.
Thabang is typical of much of rural Nepal, the local population is eager to contribute to building infrastructure and services, but hindered by lack of resources. Villages like Thabang now look to the new government for help so they can get a new start in life.

Kumaris, the living goddess

2008-06-09T01:04:00.000-07:00

Kumaris, the Living Goddesses, of Nepal (or Kathmandu Valley)

by Dinesh wagle

Though I have been hearing about Kumari tradition of Nepal (all these cute girls who are considered living goddesses and are almost always clad in dark gajal and red outfits) I hadn’t seen them directly until recently. A few days ago a Chinese reporter freelancing to an American publication for stories about Nepal hired me as his translator and fixer. Thus a few visits to Kumari Ghars (houses) of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur. The Kathmandu Kumari, the virgin girl who is considered the living goddess by the believers, was inaccessible to the general public (except that they tourists get to see her at a certain time of the day from the ground floor when she appears on a window of the Ghar).
Patan Kumari and her mom
Behind me is Patan Kumari
I managed to sneak into the housed, climbed stairs and saw her eating along with her family members. That was that. The interview request, for the American publication, was quickly turned down by the visibly irritated male member of the family. “Too many foreigners come here for interview,” said the man. “They all ask the same questions. [And in recent months they all ask] what do you say about Kumari going to the US?” He was hinting at the controversy aroused from the US trip of Bhaktapur Kumari (who has since then retired and the post is in the process of being filled by another girl) last year.
In contrary, the Patan Kumari, who is not considered a royal Kumari like the Kathmandu one, was easily accessible. We didn’t actually talk to her but there was a long Q and A with her mother. We took photos of the girl, who is not allowed to go out of the home except a couple of times in a year when the tradition demands so, when she was seated on her customary seat in the Puja room.
The former Bhaktapur Kumari, Sajani Shakya hit the national (and international) headlines, is now in a boarding school. We met her mother who happily talked to us though a telephone conversation with her husband made me conclude that he wasn’t very much enthusiastic about talking about kumari to media. It was learned that Sajani quit because of her age and they were in the process of filling the vacant position. A six-year-old girl called Shreeya Bajracharya has been chosen but no formal decisions have been taken yet because of the abolition of monarchy.
Contrary to Kathmandu and Patan Kumaris, the Bhaktapur Kumari is allowed to go out of her home, attend the school and interact with friends. That is, she can have the life is a normal girl, just like the ones in her neighborhood. So there are distinct differences among these top three Kumaris of Kathmandu Valley (there are couple of other lesser known Kumaris in Kathmandu): Bhaktapur has the most liberal tradition, Patan less liberal than Bhaktapur but liberal than Kathmandu.
The Kathmandu Kumari has to live in the stricter situation. My impression was that she has to live like that partly for tourist attraction.
Kumari is considered the source of power for Shah kings of Nepal. Now that there is no king and no monarchy in the country, where will that power go? Most probably to the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal!

CAREER BAZAAR

2008-06-09T00:55:00.000-07:00

Making News, Making Money
by prerana marasini
Have you ever wanted to break big news to the world? Do you want to expose corruption happening in your country? Do you want to see or hear your words in print or broadcast medium? Do you want to update people with what's happening around the world? If your answer is a 'yes', then journalism would be the career for you.
Journalism is a profession that involves reporting, writing, editing, photographing and broadcasting of news. With the start of private media houses and restoration of democracy in the country in 1990, its demand is increasing. And why not, news reporters and newscasters today can enjoy name, fame, and an attractive pay.
One way to get into the field is with a degree in journalism. "If you want to start afresh, you need to learn the basics by studying," says Simrika Sharma, 20, of Kantipur Television who's a third-year student of bachelors in mass communication and journalism at Madan Bhandari Memorial College. "I'd been practicing news writing as a part of my syllabus when I applied at KTV," she tells us adding, "and I think that knowledge helped me get in." It definitely did as in a year's time, she not only is very popular but also known as a young and powerful news presenter.
There are a lot of colleges in the country offering journalism studies. "Our college helps students who want to work for radio, television and newspapers," says Dr Manju Mishra, principal, College for Mass Communication and Journalism. Established in 2001, her college is equipped with a digital laboratory and a soon-to-be started FM studio, which aids in professional experiences. It also offers Bachelors' and Masters' level courses in mass communication and journalism. "They can work professionally for the station too," she says. Like her, VS Niketan College's principal Dr Baburam Pokharel also worries about students' job placement and is starting a professional youth magazine.
"We will only provide the financial support, the rest will be done by the students," he says. At present, the college offers mass communication at +2 level but will be shortly starting bachelor-level studies. Plus two or bachelors' in any faculty is the minimum criteria to pursue the graduation and post-graduation course.
Though Mishra and Pokharel think alike about entering the field armed with a degree—one of the journalists of Samay, Nabin Aryal thinks otherwise.
"A degree is a plus point but not the only way to be a journalist; your knowledge and your reporting counts the most," he says. A graduate with economics and mathematics as his major subjects, Nabin started his career as a sports journalist for Naya Sadak, a monthly magazine; then worked at Rajdhani daily for three years before finally moving to Samay. The recently-promoted senior journalist Nabin also writes about politics and other national issues.
Lily Vaidya, 24, of Nepal 1 has similar opinion too. Lily studied hotel management from the UK and then BA in sociology from Nepal. She started her career as a newsreader at Kantipur FM and then worked at Image Channel for a while before moving to Nepal 1. "Here, we have to work 13 hours a day," she says. But is she paid well? "Compared to others, we are," she says. Lily now wants a masters' degree in journalism. "It's time for me to strengthen my abilities," she adds.
Regardless of the ways of getting into the field, one thing is for sure—people are concerned about news and there are a lot of media houses for job placements. "And we can even work as communications managers if we want a change of the career," says Simrika.

Photojournalism

2008-06-09T00:27:00.000-07:00

Click! Photojournalism comes of age in Nepal
by RISHI AMATYA
photojournalist is a visual reporter of facts. The public places trust in its reporters to tell the truth. The same trust is extended to photojournalists as visual reporters."Mark Hancock
Snapping eternity A photojournalist goes beyond being a reporter. He is also an artist who tells stories through a visual medium. Hence, the old adage, pictures speaks a thousand words. Photojournalists (PJs) capture, select and present that particular frame of time to complement the text and complete it as a story. In other words, photojournalism is not just about snapping pictures but is the presentation of truth.
More often than not, people find it easy to relate to pictures and images than just words. "Photojournalism is all about news through a visual narrative," says Gopal Chitrakar. Chitrakar currently heads the Reuters Nepal bureau and is the photo editor at Kantipur Publications. "Photojournalism is,' as Kunda Dixit believes, "going beyond the headlines. It's all about showing the human face behind the news." An avid photographer himself, Dixit is best known for his book A People War, a picture book on the effect of the insurgency.
Photographer vs. Photojournalist:
As the tools of the trade and the fundamentals are the same , there's much debate about the differences between photographers and photojournalists. True, both of them tend to gravitate towards the same disposition: taking pictures, but the difference between them boils down to two words–timeliness and newsworthiness. A photographer takes anything under the sun, even manipulate the subject, to present the message he wants to convey, while a photojournalist captures up-to-date, factual happenings that are important enough to be in the news. "Every photojournalist is a good photographer—they have to be—but the same cannot be applied to every photographer," says Prakash Mathema, who clicks for Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"Learning the basics of photography is the first step to becoming a photojournalist," says Shruti Shrestha, PJ for Kantipur Publications and Reuters. "After the basics, the learning curve becomes a little steep, hence we see more photographers than photojournalists."
Here comes the age-old notion of what is better: Learning by doing or learning by studying. Both are equally important they say but are quick to add that one can learn only so much, after that the progress rests on the zeal of the individual. "True, you need sound technical knowledge to be on par with the best in the field," says Bikash Rauniyar, a prominent PJ and president of NFPJ (National Forum of Photo Journalists). "But currently, we don't have any dedicated academic course structure available. Most of us have to rely on trial and error."
Although schools here have tried including photojournalism modules in their academic curricula–most of the colleges that teach journalism have a course dedicated to the incumbents about photojournalism–these classes have focused on elementary photography while leaving the students clueless about photojournalism concepts. And such modules are only available for journalism students, effectively excluding the others. NFPJ, to solve this problem, has organised seminars and training workshops.
Digital dilemma:
If anything has created more upheavals in the field of photojournalism than the new media, it has to be the invention of digital camera. "With the whole process digitised, our productivity has seen a welcoming growth," says Min Ratna Bajracharya, PJ for Himalmedia. "Now we are constantly in the field filing news rather than developing pictures all day in the darkroom." Some would say that with the easy access of digital cameras, the challenges to the already practicing photojournalist are immense. The term "citizen journalism" has been coined to illustrate the fact that anyone with a digital camera can take on the role of a photojournalist. However, Chitrakar is unimpressed with this logic. "Anyone with a camera isn't a PJ by default; it's like saying anyone with a decent quill is Shakespeare. Only through rigorous training and through constant learning process can one acquire the skills of photojournalist." Ravi Manandhar nods in agreement. "A photojournalist should be sensitive towards the suffix, journalist, added in their job-description and work accordingly. They've more responsibility riding on their shoulders. They are telling the news through their lens."
Digitisation has enabled easy transmission and sharing of images and news. "Now, it's easy to get news-worthy images from every corner of the world," says Rauniyar.
PJ as a career :
With the arrival of new media (both print and online based), the scope for the interested are abundant. That being said, there are still challenges despite these growing opportunities. There are plenty of other enthusiasts vying for the same spot but if you are sincere enough and don't mind putting in extra hours of hard work, the sky's there for you to grasp.
Things you should know1. Photojournalism is not easy.Simply wishing and day-dreaming won't take you anywhere. Be ready to work your behind off.
2. Update. Technology changes in a matter of seconds, if you rely purely on digital format, it makes a lot of sense to be regularly updated with current technology.
3. PR. You're not just a photographer; you're a journalist as well. And nobody's going to tip you on newsworthy material if you act superior. Take time to develop your contacts who can give you a leg up on events that really matter.
4. Take lessons. Learning to use the camera is one thing, taking news-worthy pictures is a whole different ball game. Don't hesitate to ask for tips and techniques from the senior photojournalists. They are a huge inventory of knowledge.
5. Online resources. Use the potential of Google to the max.
6. Invest. If you're serious enough, it makes sense to spend on a good set of equipments, maybe an entry level DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera for starters.
7. Join forums like photo.circle to know more about the works of like-minded individuals and support them in their journey.
8. Discipline. Follow the journalists' code of conduct.
9. Photo exhibitions. Make it a point to go to as many as you can. Inspiration can strike anywhere.
10. Be creative, and open to ideas. Try to take a snap that is uniquely yours. Find different angles to best portray your shots.
Online resources:
1. http://www.nfpj.com/
2.http://www.photocircle.com.np/
3.http://www.dg28.com/
4. http://www.nppa.org/
5. http://www.viiphoto.com/
6. http://www.magnumphotos.com/

Ilam’s pristine beauty

2008-06-09T00:05:00.000-07:00

East is east: Ilam’s pristine beauty
by PRANAYA SJB RANA

Destination: Ilam

How to get there?

Take a plane to Birtamod and hop a three-hour ride to Ilam Bazaar, or catch a bus from Kalanki to Ilam, close to a 24-hour journey.What to take: A nice big windcheater and water proof clothing. The rains might get to you if you don't take care.
Visiting Ilam is a treat for the senses. Covered with the tea gardens that stretch out as far as the eye can see, Ilam is nature at one of her finest. Tea bushes form a uniform pattern as they blanket the hills, making you want to roll down it like you did when you were a kid, without a care in the world. The tea bushes are waist-high and the leaves smooth to touch. Of the freshest green, a sweet fragrance emanates from the leaves, luring bees, dragonflies and people alike.
This is what Ilam is most famous for: tea. Ilam's rolling hills are carpeted with tea, sweet aromatic leaf tea that is the best in the country. And they make for a dazzling view, green on all sides as the hills dip and rise like waves.
Ilam, or rather, Ilam Bazaar, is a three hour ride from nearest Birtamod on a sturdy jeep. The ride is long but anything but boring. As the hills rise, the landscape changes gradually. At places, there are picturesque spots that seem almost out of postcard. Tall trees, elegantly shaped, surround meadows of the deepest green, and if you happen to be heading up in the evening, you can catch the setting sun, its fading rays filtering through the canopy of trees like beams from heaven.
You know you've entered Ilam when you start to see the tea plantations. At first, they're scattered and isolated, small and not very well tended. But as you progress upwards, the plantations grow and keep growing until they're the only thing you can see for miles around. "Every piece of land in Ilam has some purpose," says journalist Rohit Chandra Bhattarai, "Either there is tea, cinnamon, forests or some sort of crop. Not even one inch lies fallow." And it's true. Ilam is green, but not just green, organic green.
After a fiasco a few years back when India returned close to 30,000 kilos of leaf tea because of impurities and chemicals present, locals and factory owners alike are turning over a new leaf, literally. They've discarded the old chemicals and have gone all organic. And because of this, wildlife is slowly returning to Ilam. Now, there are snakes in the underbrush, rats, deer, dragonflies, beetles and ladybirds, some of which were conspicuously absent when chemicals were used. After factory owners started refusing tea with too high a chemical content, farmers caught on and despite the lower yield, seem happy to see the return of fauna.
Ilam grows the best tea in Nepal because of its weather and its idyllic conditions. Tea requires a minimum of 50 inches of rainfall and acidic soil to grow properly and the higher the altitude, the better the flavour. High quality tea grows slower but acquires a better flavour at altitudes of above 5,000ft. Ilam, with its close proximity to Darjeeling, grows arguably the best leaf in Nepal. "Most Nepalis prefer Jhapa CTC tea to our superior leaf tea," says RC Nepal, manager of the Himalayan Shangri-la Tea Factory, "But foreigners know better. Demand for Ilam leaf tea is growing in Europe."
Ilam's weather may be perfect for tea but sometimes can be quite an annoyance. It doesn't take long for storm clouds to gather and rain is intermittent, at least once or twice daily. The air is humid, wet with the moisture and can get quite chilly at times, but makes for great horizon watching. Sitting atop a high hill and watching the storm clouds gather can be fascinating, the speed with which they congregate, dark and angry, only to pour out bucketsful of rain and then disappear as quickly as they appeared.
Ilam's moody, melancholy weather maybe responsible for something that most residents of Ilam are not very proud of: its high suicide rate. Once notorious for having the highest suicide rate in all of Nepal, Ilam's aatmahatya has gone down in recent years. Psychologists at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in nearby Dharan, offer various explanations to try and account for the abnormal rates, ranging from the weather to proximity to India.
Ilam's most popular destination is the Mai Pokhari, the nine-cornered pond that holds religious, cultural, ecological and biological importance. Mai Pokhari, and Ilam, is home to many endangered species of insects, animals and birds. Ilam, and mainly the upper East region, is also home to the elusive Red Panda. This part of east Nepal, which spreads across Ilam, Panchthar and Taplejung, is home to many endangered species of birds, insects and animals. White rhododendron is rampant and the mysterious beasts like the red panda and the spotted snow leopard are natives.
India is a hop across the border from Ilam. An hour from Fikkal to Pashupatinagar and then you're scotfree to Darjeeling. Although Pashupatinagar doesn't have a customs office so foreigners cannot cross over from here, Nepalis regularly make good use of the open border. But it's not always a good thing, as Fikkal locals report truckloads of Ilam tea being transported over to Darjeeling in the wee hours of the morning to be repackaged and sold as Darjeeling tea. After police clamped down on the trucks, mules and donkeys are now being used.
Ilam has always been beautiful and always been a very productive region of Nepal. Its lush greenery and climate perfect for a variety of cash crops, mainly: alaichi (cardamom), amleso( grass use as broom), adhuwa (ginger) and aolan (milk), the four As that Ilam is most famous for. Ilam will amaze you, from its scenery to it's sometimes heart wrenching chill. It's abundant flora and elusive fauna are something that many researchers and tourists come to see. Ilam is a mini-Darjeeling, just on our side of the border.
(By wave magazine)

Having tea with journalist

2008-06-07T20:50:00.000-07:00

Republic celebration photo

2008-06-07T20:04:00.000-07:00

sanjay Dhakal in spotlight

2008-06-07T01:19:00.000-07:00

Changing Role
(The Narayanhity royal palace stands testimony to various phases of history of modern Nepal )
By SANJAYA DHAKAL
As the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) held on May 28 implemented the declaration of republic and instructed the government to take over the Narayanhity royal palace to turn it into a national museum, all eyes are now on the palace from where the ex-King Gyanendra has been asked to shift within two weeks.
The modern structure of Narayanhity royal palace was built in the early sixties under close watch of then King Mahendra.
Even though the Shah dynasty started ruling the unified Nepal from 1768 AD, it was only sometime after 1880 that then minor King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah was moved to the Narayanhity palace from Hanumandhoka Durbar, which had remained the official seat of Shah Kings till then.
Palace : Changing role with changing time
The Narayanhity, in fact, was gifted by then powerful Rana prime ministers to Shah King, who till then was only a titular ruler.
Subsequently, the palace continued to undergo expansion and transformation. However, its major transformation took place in early 1960s.
Remembers Shankar Nath Rimal, an engineer who was involved during its construction, "It is a huge complex with lots of bungalows like Mangal Sadan, Shree Sadan, Trishul Sadan, Mahendra Manjil and there were also reports that Tribhuwan Sadan was settled for new construction. When we constructed it, the main Narayanhity palace alone was around 1000 foot long."
The palace, located in Durbarmarg of the central Kathmandu, is spread over 750 ropanis of land. Rimal remembers there could be over 1000 rooms in total in the buildings within the sprawling complex.
Apart from the buildings and bungalows, the palace is also said to be a storehouse of documents and details of historic and archaeological significance.
"The original copies of Panjapatra (which then Shah Kings signed to authorize the rise of new Rana prime ministers) and Lal Mohars used to be kept in Lal Bakas, which used to be stored in Foreign Ministry. But few years ago when I inquired the Ministry officials about the Lal Bakas in course of my research, I was told that perhaps they could be in the palace," said Triratna Manandhar, a historian.
As the government has decided to turn the palace into a national museum or use it for national interest, the attention has now shifted to securing the historically and archaeologically significant documents once the ex-King vacates the place.
The Narayanhity royal palace had remained as the symbol of history and power of Shah dynasty in later years. It has gone through many historic occasions like the 1990 dialogue between then King Birendra and political leaders, which ultimately restored democracy, and the February 1, 2005 royal proclamation by then King Gyanendra, by which he took over full executive powers only to issue another proclamation on April 23, 2006 withdrawing himself from power politics. From that day onwards, the monarchy's power had been on steady decline reaching to the culmination of CA declaration of May 28, which ended the 240-year-old Shah dynasty. Unfortunately, this palace is also the same place where then King Birendra and his entire family was shot dead in palace killings. This grisly incident had occurred in Tribhuwan Sadan in June 1 of 2001. As the sun sets on Shah dynasty of Nepal, the role of the Narayanhity palace is also set to change – whether as the national museum or as the presidential palace.

2008-06-07T01:10:00.000-07:00

Jana Andolan-2 Victim Warns Leaders

By Narendra Raule
Janaandolan-2
(Peoples’ Movement) Victim

On Baishakh 9 (April 22), sea of humanity was marching from Koteshor to Tripureshor. I joined it from Tinkune. The peaceful protest was marching forward despite the barriers placed here and there. The street was abuzz with anti-monarchy slogans.
At 3 pm, the mass reached Tripureshor.Then it headed towards Tundikhel. But, some vigilantes tried to vandalize the king’s statue and put fire on the hoarding boards that have king’s message. At that moment, Armed Police Force personnel opend fire on protesters. My left hand was injured by a gunshot. There was nowhere to run or hide. The area was surrounded by security forces. I ran towards Eye Hospital in Tripureshor. There too I found an army barrack. Army was still firing, numerous shells of tear gas were fired on demonstrators. A doctor affiliated to Redcross saved my life. Then, the Redcross people carried me in their ambulance to Model Hospital. My left hand was operated the same day. After operation, I was admitted to a bed. Other patients had a number of visitors but I was lonely, no one paid me visit. It made me homesick.
Two days after the operation, a doctor not only insulted but also tried to discharge me. The wound had not healed yet. Moreover, I had nowhere to go. Those kith and kins of ministers and MPs were treated differently. I said, I can not move my hand. But, to add salt to my wounds, they remarked that it was not an asylum or a shelter. Later, comedian Haribansa Acharya helped me out. An NGO named TEWA was instrumental in treating me.
The patients were not given good food. It was again TEWA that brought food and care. I am grateful to Durga Thapa, Renu Lama and TEWA’s Anita Chaudhari, Sunil Basnet, Mina Gurung and Shital Shakya for their succour. Many leaders including RPP’s Pashupati Shamser Rana came to see the patients. But, they only conveyed the raw formalities. Their wishes didn’t work for me; I am having tough time coping with miserable life.
My wound is still painful, it has not healed yet. Similarly, martyrs’ families are still in deep sorrow. But, the dirty game to grab power is increasingly becoming evident. The leaders seem to forget the people power. The same people who paved way for them to the power can also knock them out.

(Translated by Deepak Adhikari from today’s Kantipur daily.)

Raule photo Gallary

2008-06-06T23:30:00.000-07:00

My photos in differnt mood and differnt situation.

2008-06-05T23:27:00.000-07:00

Fashion of girl in Kathmandu

Beautiful smile attacks me

unko khali siundo rangyauna sakiyala?

I m returnning home from Kathmandu it is Achham

a small maoist's daughter lady with me

SHILDEVI jayra in Bajhang

women enjoying in Deuda geet

Bajhang Thalara Badi jati

Male are competition deuda geet between them

picture gallery

2008-06-05T22:48:00.000-07:00

Tika Bamjan an army who used to write by mouth

Bajureli childrens preparing to achieve fish by doing this work

Malika an tourist area of Bajura

chhededaha pcnic sport Of Bajura district

a scene of rainfalling in Tamail Bajhang one afternoon

Rabindra mishra article

2008-06-05T22:34:00.000-07:00

Nepal king's biggest gamble

By Rabindra Mishra

BBC Nepali service

King Gyanendra at his coronation after the royal massacre of 2001By sacking Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's government for the second time in just over two years and taking full control of the state power, Nepal's King Gyanendra has taken an unprecedented risk.
He knows he will have to win a three-way power struggle involving the monarchy, a powerful Maoist rebel movement and Nepal's parliamentary parties.
If he loses, his throne itself could be in danger.
He has said he will form a new cabinet under his direct leadership.
But the Maoist rebels appear stronger by the day. No one knows whether the king will be able to deal with the civil war successfully where the politicians have failed.
Impossible task?
Many analysts had been saying that direct rule was probably the last option left to the king to deal with the crisis.

The Maoists have insisted on direct talks with the king
The alternative was the strong lobby in the country advocating for the restoration of the dissolved House of Parliament.
That would have meant a return to full democracy after the king sacked the elected government of Mr Deuba in October 2002.
Mr Deuba was appointed again in June last year after the king's pro-royalist nominees, Mr Lokendra Bahadur Chand and Mr Surya Bahadur Thapa, failed to make progress in resolving the Maoist crisis.
When Mr Deuba was reappointed, he was asked by the king to form a government by trying to get into fold as many political parties as possible, restore peace in the country and start the process of holding general elections by March this year.
Many predicted it was an impossible task.
No progress
He got off to a bad start when the largest political party in the dissolved parliament, the Nepali Congress, refused to co-operate. Some other smaller parties also cold-shouldered him.
If the king fails, there is a possibility that the political parties might establish some sort of working relationship with the Maoists and try to get rid of the king himself
However, an unlikely combination, the right-wing National Democratic Party and the centre-left Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist) and another small party decided to join the government. They argued that this was the best way of limiting the king's political manipulations.
As it turned out, Mr Deuba made no progress in ending the fighting. The Maoists simply refused to negotiate with him, denouncing him as the king's puppet and insisting on direct talks with the king himself.
Mr Deuba responded by expressing his determination to hold general elections.
The idea of holding elections was mocked by all political parties because of the deteriorating security situation and the Maoist threat to disrupt any polls.
In theory, King Gyanendra should have been in favour of the elections as he had been insisting on them when he reappointed Mr Deuba as prime minister.
But Mr Deuba had been telling many journalists off the record that the king himself did not, in fact, want the elections to be held.
It is certainly true that if a date for elections had already been announced, it would have made it harder for the king to justify his decision to rule directly and impose a state of emergency.
Not a quiet king
Some in Nepal have always been suspicious of the king's democratic credentials.
He became the king in unexpected and dramatic circumstances after his brother and other members of his family were killed in a shoot-out at the royal palace in June 2001.

Political parties have campaigned for months for parliament to be restored
Immediately after his enthronement, he said he would not be a quiet king like his brother and would play a more active role in Nepali life.
His involvement in state affairs opened up the country's three way power struggle.
Many had been calling for a united front between the king and Nepal's political parties.
King Gyanendra never took up such an initiative and now looks to have decided to sideline the parties completely.
So his success now depends entirely on whether he will be able to bring the Maoist rebels back to the negotiating table and reach some sort of deal in restoring peace in the country.
It is a tall order, not least because the basic aims of the Maoists has long been the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a communist republic.
However, if the king succeeds, he may gain some support. If he fails, there is a possibility that the political parties might establish some sort of working relationship with the Maoists and try to get rid of the king himself.
Whatever the future course, the state of Nepal has been plunged into further uncertainty.

Manujbabu mishra

2008-06-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

Manujbabu mishra a famous potrait

picture

2008-06-05T20:33:00.000-07:00

a piece of letter by pradeep Nepal

sushil sharma a correspondent of BBC Nepali service

a piece of letter writing by pradeep Nepal from jail to her daughter

Kunmari ,the living goddesses

Narendra raule with literatureer

2008-06-05T19:59:00.000-07:00

literaturer Modnath prasit and me in his home .

Pradeep Nepal and me in minister quater pulchock .

writer Diamond shamser and me in his home

crowd of people in Khulamanch for welcoming republic day People are welcoming republic day in 14 jestha .

nadi kinar ka bhote

2008-06-05T19:52:00.000-07:00

Buddhiganga river,green tents are bhote

2008-06-05T19:32:00.000-07:00

after attacking the airport of Bajhang by Maoist

Bhote are staying in chainpur Bajhang

2008-06-05T19:03:00.000-07:00

BHOTE LIFE IN BAJURA AND ACHHAM

For Obama, The Right Way to Win

2008-06-04T04:46:00.000-07:00

For Obama, The Right Way to Win

By Ruth Marcus
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
For Barack Obama in June 2008, Ulysses Grant in April 1865 offers a useful role model.
After a long and brutal civil war, Grant sought Robert E. Lee's surrender, reminding him of the "hopelessness of further resistance" and urging him to prevent "any further effusion of blood."
When Lee finally accepted that reality, Grant was "magnanimous in victory," as Jay Winik writes in "April 1865," his account of that fateful month. The Union general let Lee choose the time and place of his surrender and agreed to terms designed to avoid, Grant later explained, "an unnecessary humiliation."
Lee's officers were allowed to keep their horses and personal weapons; Grant provided food for Lee's hungry troops. "This will have a very happy effect upon my army," a grateful Lee declared.
Obama's battle with Hillary Clinton is, of course, far less consequential. For all the round-the-clock coverage, the world will little note nor long remember a party primary fight. Yet Grant's behavior at Appomattox is nonetheless instructive about the task facing Obama. Certainly, how Clinton conducts herself in the months ahead has important implications both for Obama's prospects in November and Clinton's future beyond that.

placeAd('ARTICLE',commercialNode,20,'',true) ;But how deftly Obama handles the endgame can shape the reaction of Clinton, and Clinton's army, to what feels at the moment like a crushing defeat. Winning gracefully can be as hard as -- and more important than -- losing gracefully.
To talk to the partisans in both campaigns is to understand the degree of healing that is required. Any primary fight ends with bruised feelings and nursed grievances. This one, having lasted longer, has more than its share.
Saturday's epic battle at the meeting of the party's ordinarily obscure Rules and Bylaws Committee offers a case in point.
From the Obama camp's view, its side had the raw power to impose far harsher terms than what was ultimately agreed on, and it deserves credit for pulling back. The Clinton forces, despite their good deal, stubbornly refused to compromise, even in defeat.
From the perspective of the Clinton campaign, its candidate was arbitrarily and unjustly deprived of delegates she had won, as the party summarily swept aside its rules to resolve the mess.
Both sides are correct, actually. But Obama, on the verge of victory, would have been well advised to give just a little bit more -- four more delegates, to be precise, that the Clinton campaign claims were "hijacked," to use Harold Ickes's powerful description, from its Michigan vote.
Don Fowler, the former party chairman who supported Clinton but ultimately accepted the compromise, describes his conversations on this point with the Obama negotiator. "I said . . . this is nuts. Why don't you give them this and make you look magnanimous and everybody would be content. . . . They had the votes so they won the day on that, but it certainly engendered a lot of ill will."

Monarchy abolished from Nepal

2008-06-04T04:31:00.000-07:00

Nepal Votes to Abolish Its Monarchy
Newly Elected Constituent Assembly Declares
Country a Secular Republic

By Matthew Rosenberg
Associated Press
Thursday, May 29, 2008
KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 28 -- The world's last Hindu kingdom became its newest secular republic Wednesday as Nepal's lawmakers, led by former communist insurgents, abolished the monarchy that had reigned over this Himalayan land for 239 years
Throughout the day, thousands of people marched, danced and sang in the streets of Kathmandu in anticipation of the vote, waving red hammer-and-sickle flags as King Gyanendra awaited his fate in the pink concrete palace that dominates the city's center.
Late in the day, as expected, the newly elected Constituent Assembly declared the country a republic and abolished the monarchy by a vote of 560 to 4. The assembly's 37 other members were not present.
"We have entered a new era today," said Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, calling Nepal's rebirth as a republic "the dream of the whole nation."
There was no immediate reaction from the 60-year-old king, who has remained silent recently as it became apparent that his days on the throne were numbered.
He now has 15 days to quit the 1970s-era palace and move to his large private residence in the city -- or face the possibility of being removed by force.
As word of the republic's declaration spread through Kathmandu, groups of young men yelled in the streets and set off firecrackers.
"The people in Nepal have defeated the autocrat Gyanendra," said Gopal Thapa, a 23-year-old supporter of the Maoists, the former rebels. "Nepal is now the people's republic."
Not since the shah of Iran was deposed in the bloody 1979 Islamic revolution has one of the world's monarchs been forced from his throne.
While the end of Nepal's royal dynasty may have come in a peaceful vote, the stage for the monarchy's demise was set by a communist insurgency that bled Nepal for a decade, and by a 2001 palace massacre in which a gunman, allegedly the crown prince, assassinated King Birendra and much of the royal family before killing himself.
The killings helped pierce the mystique surrounding a line of kings who had once been revered as reincarnations of the Hindu god Vishnu, and Gyanendra was dogged by rumors that he was somehow involved in the palace massacre.

Los Angles Times

2008-06-04T03:48:00.000-07:00

Nepal monarchy abolished; King Gyanendra out

Pedro Ugarte / AFP/Getty Images
Police beat demonstrators during clashes around the royal palace in Katmandu, a day after the Constituent Assembly abolished the monarchy and declared Nepal a republic. Protesters want King Gyanendra to vacate the palace immediately, but the newly elected assembly gave him two weeks to leave.
Lawmakers in the Himalayan nation declare a republic in a 560-4 vote.
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 29, 2008
NEW DELHI -- Nepal became the world's newest republic when a freshly elected assembly voted Wednesday to abolish the Himalayan nation's 239-year-old Hindu monarchy.King Gyanendra, the last of the Shah dynasty, is to become an ordinary citizen and was given 15 days to vacate the salmon-colored Narayanhiti Palace in Katmandu, where he has been holed up, virtually incommunicado.Thousands of jubilant Nepalese thronged the streets in anticipation of the vote taken in the assembly's maiden session late Wednesday.The vote itself, an overwhelming 560 to 4, was a foregone conclusion. Gyanendra's powers have been steadily curtailed since a disastrous period of absolute rule ended in April 2006 amid a popular revolt. The major parties had all agreed that jettisoning the monarchy would be the new body's first order of business."We have entered a new era today," Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala declared, the Associated Press reported.It did not happen without protest, however. A series of minor bomb blasts blamed on royalists have struck Katmandu, the capital, over the last few days. No one was killed.Getting rid of the throne, and the deeply reviled man who sat on it, was the most cherished goal of the Maoist rebels who waged a bloody 10-year civil war in which more than 13,000 people were killed.The rebels agreed to lay down their arms in November 2006 and join the political system. Their commanding victory in April elections stunned many fellow Nepalese, as well as international observers.The Maoists have yet to form a government. About 20,000 of their fighters remain in United Nations-run camps.The group's leader, who goes by the nom de guerre Prachanda, is likely to become president or prime minister.A wealthy businessman before ascending to the throne in 2001, Gyanendra was never expected to become king. But his reigning brother died in a shocking palace massacre allegedly committed by the crown prince, who then turned the gun on himself.Gyanendra declared absolute rule in 2005, saying it was necessary to suppress the Maoist insurgency. But after the restoration of democratic government, his face was removed from the currency, statues of him were taken down and he hardly appeared in public again.henry.chu@latimes.comSpecial

correspondent Bikas Rauniar in Katmandu contributed to this report.

2008-06-04T03:38:00.000-07:00

The picture on this girl's cheek is the Nepali national flag.

smilling hope republic Nepal declaring

Ganatantra(republic) in chest

Beautiful scenario of nature

2008-06-04T02:35:00.000-07:00

Machhapuchhre Base Camp.

scene from Sarangkot pokhara.

claudy sky.

लवलेटरहरु, प्रेमपत्रहरु

2008-06-04T02:30:00.000-07:00

प्रहरीको लवलेटर -:
मेरो हृदयकी नाइटभिजन, लङ्गरेन्जको भन्दा लामो तथा बंकरभन्दा गहिरो माया ! आत्माकी सेन्ट्री, सेक्यरिटीवाल भन्दा मजबुत प्यार । मेरो दिमागकी एम्बुस, ब्ल्यांकफायरभन्दा धेरै क्लियर संझना । प्यारी, मेरो सानो मिसफायरमा तिमी मेरो घेरा तोडेर माइत गयौं, मेरो मनमा र्कफ्यु लागेको छ । तुरुन्त आत्मसर्मपण गरिदेउ, हैन भने, हातहतियार सहित माइतमा आक्रमण हुनेछ !! उहि तिमीलाई सधैँ सुरक्षा दिने हवल्दार ‘काले’

कम्प्युटर अपरेटरको प्रेमपत्र -;]
जिन्दगीकी कन्ट्रोल प्यानल, हन्ड्रेड जिबीको माया ! मैले १एमबी मायाको लागी कतिपटक एप्लाई गरेँ, तर कहिल्यै पनि ओ.के. गरिनौ । तिम्रो पिक्चर मेरो हार्डडिस्कमा सेभ गरिसकेको छु । कृपया मेरो मायालाई रिसाइकलबीनमा सेन्ड नगरिदेउ । मेरो रिकोएस्ट मानिनौं भने, म आफैंलाई अटो डिलिट गर्नेछु , अगाडी तिम्रो इच्छा !! तिम्रो जिन्दगीको पासवर्ड ’ गोपाल’

ड्राइभरको लवलेटर -:
मेरो मुटुकी स्टेयरिङ् , चौथो गियर भन्दा धेरै माया ! अहिले सम्म म कण्डिसनमा नै छु , आषा छ, तिमी पनि पञ्चर भएकी छैनौ होला । म घरबाट हिँड्दा तिम्रो चक्का मेरो मतलब खुट्टा ठिक थिएन, राम्रो वर्कसपमा गएर डाक्टरलाई देखाउनु । केटाकेटीलाई गाली गर्दा हर्न सानो पार्नु , छिमेकीले ओभरटेक गर्छन्, आउँदो नपालबन्दमा घर आउँदैछु ,त्यसैबेला बेट्रीचार्ज गरौंला !! उहि तिमीलाई हर्न बजाउने ड्राइभर माइला,बि.च.रा.४३२३
(these deprived love letter from www.aawaz.blogsome.com)

2008-06-03T22:26:00.000-07:00

A Himalayan spring
It has been a record-breaking climbing season

After a lot of uncertainty and delay due to China's quest to take the Olympic Torch to the summit of Chomolungma, it was a grand season on the world's highest mountain.
The flame reached the top on 8 May and normal life resumed on the south side of the mountain after that. By 22 May a record-breaking 86 mountaineers were on the 8,848m-high summit in one day and several other records were set.
On 25 May, 77-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan topped in perfect climbing conditions and became the oldest man on Chomolungma beating the previous record of 71-year-old Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who was able to hold onto his laurels only for one year. Sherchan said he wanted to inspire fellow Nepali senior citizens.

WFP-JAMES GIAMBRONE
UPTHRILL TRAFFIC: A stream of climbers on the Khumbu Icefall last week

Next up in the line of climbing oldies was Yuichiro Miura from Japan, who at age 75 became the second oldest man a day later. Apa Sherpa once again broke his own record by summiting for the 18th time. Chuwang Nima also climbed for the 15th time, Mingma Tshering for 13th time, and Chuldim Ang Dorje for 12th time.
This season also saw the first Saudi Arabian man reach the top of the world, with Farouq Saad Hamad Al-Zuman summiting on 21 May. The Nepali media also had reason to celebrate as Shailee Basnet of Himal Khabarpatrika became the first Nepali female journalist to reach the top on 24 May (see box).
But there was also tragedy. Swiss veteran mountaineer Uwe Gianni Goltz died on his way down from his summit attempt on 21 May. Goltz is said to have collapsed shortly before Camp 4 at 7,900m, probably due to exhaustion after an attempt to summit Everest without oxygen.
Even though the south side of Chomolungma was teeming this year, it didn't exceed last year's record of 628 people on top partly because of the closure of the north side of the mountain.
Other mountainsThe Himalayan spring saw other feats besides Chomolungma. On 1 May Ivan Vallejo from Ecuador became the 14th person to climb all the world's 14 8,000m peaks, closely followed by Swiss mountain guide Norbert Joos, who is on his way to bag number 14 on 29 May.
German mountaineer, Ralf Dujmovits, also successfully climbed Makalu and attempted Lhotse together with his wife, Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. However, the couple had to turn back about 400m short of the summit due to extreme cold and Dujmovits having a chest infection. The retreat leaves Dujmovits with one eight thousander to go and Kaltenbrunner, who bagged Dhaulagiri I earlier this month, with three. Together with Italian climber Nives Meroi, who has reached 10 summits, Kaltenbrunner is on the path of becoming the first woman to climb all 14 eight thousanders. Neither of the women uses supplementary oxygen.
Another eight thousand meter man is Andrew Lock from Australia, who climbed Makalu on 21 May making Makalu his 13th 8,000m peak. Makalu also saw the death of 37-year-old Nil Prasad Gurung who died of high altitude celebral oedema at Camp Four whilst climbing with a French team.
Tragedy and heroism on AnnapurnaTop Spanish climber Inaki Ochoa de Olza died at 7,400m on Annapurna I on 25 May. Ochoa de Olza was on his quest to finish his 13th eight thousander, and together with his climbing mate, Horia Colibasanu from Romania, got to about 100m below the summit of the 10th highest mountain in the world.
The pair had to turn around due to problems with Ochoa de Olza's hands and lack of ropes to fix some difficult sections. Reports say that upon his arrival at Camp 4 the Spaniard collapsed with either a stroke or celebral oedema. Four days of agony and an amazing coordination of rescue efforts ensued. Clibanasu stayed with de Olza until Swiss climbers, Ueli Steck and Simon Anthamatten, who were intending to open a new route on the treacherous South face of Annapurna, arrived at Camp 4 on 22 May.
However, all efforts were in vain and Ochoa de Olza, who would have turned 41 a few days ago, succumbed to pulmonary oedema on 23 May at 12.30 PM. His death sent a shock through the Himalayan climbing community as he had made many good friends over the past 18 years of mountaineering in Nepal.
The rescue effort was truly impressive and it showed, once again, that comradeship has not at all died in the Himalaya. Mountaineers in Kathmandu changed their flights, flew back to Pokhara and tried everything humanly possible to save Ochoa de Olza, who was involved in helping mountaineers in trouble numerous times and loved Nepal. The rescue efforts say a lot about comradeship and he will be deeply missed.

Obama claims

2008-06-03T22:11:00.000-07:00

To Lead a Major Party Ticket
Obama Claims Nomination; First Black Candidate

Senator Barack Obama with his wife, Michelle, in St. Paul.
by JEFF ZELENY
Senator Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday evening, prevailing through an epic battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in a primary campaign that inspired millions of voters from every corner of America to demand change in Washington.
A last-minute rush of Democratic superdelegates, as well as the results from the final primaries, in Montana and South Dakota, pushed Mr. Obama over the threshold of winning the 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s convention in August. The victory for Mr. Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, broke racial barriers and represented a remarkable rise for a man who just four years ago served in the Illinois Senate.
“Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America,” Mr. Obama told supporters at a rally in St. Paul. “Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America.”
In a speech to supporters in New York City, Mrs. Clinton paid tribute to Mr. Obama, but she did not leave the race. In a speech more defiant than conciliatory, she again presented her case that she was the stronger candidate and argued that she had won the popular vote, a notion disputed by the Obama campaign.
“I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected,” Mrs. Clinton told supporters . But she paid homage to Mr. Obama’s accomplishments, saying, “It has been an honor to contest the primaries with him, just as it is an honor to call him my friend.”
Mr. Obama’s victory moved the presidential campaign to a new phase as he tangled with Senator John McCain of Arizona in televised addresses Tuesday night over Mr. Obama’s assertion that Mr. McCain would carry on President Bush’s policies. Mr. McCain vigorously rebuffed that criticism in a speech in Kenner, La., in which he distanced himself from the departing president while contrasting his own breadth of experience with Mr. Obama’s record.
“The American people didn’t get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama,” Mr. McCain told supporters.
Mr. Obama’s triumph closed a 16-month primary campaign that broke records on several fronts: the number of voters who participated, the amount of money raised and spent and the sheer length of the fight. The campaign, infused by tensions over race and gender, provided unexpected twists to the end as Mr. Obama ultimately prevailed over Mrs. Clinton, who just a year ago appeared headed toward becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major party.
The last two primaries reflected the party’s continuing divisions, as Mrs. Clinton won the South Dakota contest and Mr. Obama won Montana.
The race drew to its final hours with a burst of announcements — delegate by delegate — of Democrats stepping forward to declare their support for Mr. Obama. The Democratic establishment, from former President Jimmy Carter to rank-and-file local officials who make up the party’s superdelegates, rallied behind Mr. Obama as the day wore on.
When the day began, Mr. Obama needed 41 delegates to effectively claim the nomination. By the time the polls closed in Montana and South Dakota, Mr. Obama had secured the delegates he needed to end his duel with Mrs. Clinton, which wound through every state and territory in an unprecedented 57 contests over five months.
Every time a new endorsement was announced at the Obama headquarters in Chicago, campaign workers interrupted with a booming round of applause, followed by popping Champagne corks later in the evening. The aides are members of Mr. Obama’s team — a political start-up — that is responsible for defeating one of the most tried and tested teams in Democratic politics.
While the Democratic race may have ended, a new chapter began in the complicated tensions that have defined the relationship between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton. On a conference call with members of the New York Congressional delegation on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton was asked whether she would be open to joining a ticket with Mr. Obama. She replied that she would do whatever she could — including a vice-presidential bid — to help Democrats win the White House.
Representative Nydia M. Velázquez, Democrat of New York, asked Mrs. Clinton whether she would consider teaming up with Mr. Obama. “She said that if it’s offered, she would take it,” Ms. Velázquez said later in an interview.
from The newyorktimes

Deepak's Diary

2008-06-03T21:19:00.000-07:00

The Week That Was
Last week, my mentor Greg Victor and I sat at his desk and discussed on how to make the best out of the fellowship as I already had hopped on a number of sections and wanted to enliven my stint which was bordering on boredom.I suggested to him that I wanted to spend time at Art/Design, Photography and Wire/International sections. I also expressed my desire to learn some copy editing and watch the production of the newspaper. I am doing this hoping that the knowledge and experience when shared with my colleagues back home would be fruitful and enriching. We postponed the copy editing and production schedule for a week or may be after the mid-term seminar at Poynter. On Wednesday, PG photographer Pam Panchak and I drove to Washington County through the thick Pittsburgh woods. She said she had two assignments to cover. We reached an elementary school where kids were going play with chicks as part of life cycle education. As Pam took pictures, I watched the kids' reaction (and wonder). I also got a chance to see how kids are taught in an elementary school. The teaching method and the environment are entirely different in Nepal. Here was a quiet school in the middle of woods. In Nepal, schools are located in the city area (partly because of easy access) and are chaotic and noisy. The way the teacher treated the students gently is also a contrast to the schools back home where teachers are prone to beating students with a stick. In my school days, most teachers were (and I guess they still are) feared by the students because of their cruel teaching method coupled with punishment and fear psychosis. But the strictness often resulted on breaking the rules and indiscipline. In US, more emphasis is given to slow natural learning whereas in Nepal the kids bear the brunt of piles of homeworks and the method is largely a parroting the text instead of understanding.After a coffee break at a Starbucks, we headed to our second destination: Children's Therapy Center of Washington Hospital in Peters, PA. The hospital was organizing a pet therapy session for the kids with autism. Pam said: It's an animal day today. But to me it was also a children's day. Here's the link to the story (there's no byline, I wondered why). I was particularly impressed by Drue Tepper, an autism patient who seemed pretty good at caring and training animals. When his mom showed us the photos of his several excursions to zoos where he caught all sorts of animals, he reminded me of legendary crocodile hunter Steve Irwin. Art Director Chris was waiting for me on Thursday morning. He was designing Forum, a Sunday section of opinion and ideas edited by Greg Victor. We talked about several issues on newspaper/magazine layout. Chris said that he favored simple and plain style of layout. His favorite magazines were The New Yorker and The Spectator. He disliked the way New York Times Sunday Magazine did it's layout. It puts a lot of emphasis on design and reduces the significance of the text, he said. He said it's been PG's policy not to publish pictures of dead bodies in the newspaper. He said while designing the front page, he makes sure that there are at least six news pieces and one main photo in the page. According to him, the selection of one good picture in the front page adds to the beauty and focus of the most important page. Then, I spent the day talking to his colleagues at Art section. I was impressed that women comprise almost half of the section (FYI: PG's half of the staff are women). In Nepal, this sort of work is done mainly by men. I have never seen any woman designer in Nepal.Note: Next post on how I spent an evening at Wire/International section.
(Deepak adhikari is special reporter of 'NEPAL' weekly.Now he is in America during his fellowship.my first meet with deepak was 2063 jestha .)

थुनुवाको सिर्जना

2008-06-03T20:56:00.000-07:00

थुनुवाको सिर्जना

नरेन्द्र रौले

९० वर्षउकालो लागेका डायमनशमशेरलाई पुरानो जेल बसाइ सम्भ“mदा कस्तो लाग्छ - पक्कै आखामा आसु आउछ । निकै भावुक बनाउछ । तर, त्यही नख्खु जेल बसाइमा लेखिएको उपन्यास सेतो बाघको लेखकस्वबाटै उनको गुजारा चल्दैछ । विश्वका पाचवटा भाषामा अनुवाद भएको त्यो उपन्यास उनले छ वर्षलगाएर लेखेका हुन् । भन्छन्, "यसको गाता छाप्न म ब्याङ्कक पुगेको थिए ।" साढे सात लाख रुपिया ब्याङ्क ब्यालेन्स छ । दालभात खान पुगेकै छ ।"राजा महेन्द्रले २०१७ सालमा पञ्चायती व्यवस्था लादेका बेला डायमन नेपाली काङ्ग्रेस ललितपुर शाखाका सभापति रहेछन् । उनलाई नख्खु जेलमा छ वर्ष थुनियो । साथमा थिए अहिलेका प्रधानमन्त्री गिरजिाप्रसाद कोइराला, स्वर्गीय मनमोहन अधिकारी, केआई सिंह, तारिणीप्रसाद कोइराला आदि ।नख्खु जेलको वातावरण एकदमै दुःखदायी थियो । आज मार्छ कि भोलि मार्छ ठेगान थिएन । पञ्चायती व्यवस्था स्वीकार्न लोभ, लालच र धम्कीसमेत दिइन्थ्यो । उनीहरू मर्न तयार भए तर राजाको कदम स्वीकारेनन् । जेलमा उनीहरू राजनीतिक छलफल र बहसमा समय बिताउ“थे । मुलुकमा प्रजातन्त्र स्थापना भएको सपना देख्थे । डायमन भन्छन्, "त्यसबेला गिरजिाप्रसादले कविता लेखेको र तारिणीप्रसादले शब्दकोश लेखेको अनि केआई सिंहले आफ्नो आत्मकथा सुनाएको अझै सम्झन्छु ।"आधा दर्जन उपन्यासका लेखक डायमनको सेतो बाघ प्रथम राणा प्रधानमन्त्री जङ्गबहादुर राणाका छोरा जगतजङ्गमाथि लेखिएको उपन्यास हो । उपन्यासहरूकै माध्यमबाट उनी विश्वका सबैजसो मुलुक घुमिसकेका छन् । जेल बसाइमा साथीहरूसग मगाएर विलियम शेक्सपियर, ओ हेनरी, ओस्कार बाइल्ड, लियो टल्सटाय, जेम्स केल्म्यानलगायत थुप्रैका कृतिहरू जेलमै पढे डायमनले । ती किताबहरू अहिले घरमा पुस्तकालय बनाएर राखेका छन् । "बाधिन्न हात्ती माकुरे झीनो जालोले तुनेर

रोकिन्न क्रान्ति दुइचार मान्छे झ्यालखानामा थुनेर ।"

२८ वर्षघि राजनीतिक बन्दीका रूपमा भैरहवामा थुनुवा जीवन बिताएका बेला मोदनाथ प्रश्रतिले कोरेका पङ्क्ति हुन् यी । उनी बुटवल बहुमुखी क्याम्पसमा नेपाली विषय पढाउथे । सरकारले क्याम्पसलाई मान्यता नदिएको विरोधमा विद्यार्थीले आन्दोलन मच्चाए । आन्दोलन उठाउने मोदनाथ जेल परे, सगै सुरु भयो साहित्यिक यात्रा ।जीवनको झन्डै १० वर्ष जेल बसाइमा प्रश्रतिले देवासुर सङ्ग्राम -महाकाव्य), गोलघरको सन्देश -खण्डकाव्य), चोर -उपन्यास), आस्था र प्रथा ः एक विवेचना -धार्मिक ग्रन्थ), नारी बन्धन र मुक्ति -समाजशास्त्र) लेखे । भन्छन्, "मोहनविक्रम सिंह र प्रचण्डले मेरा कतिपय कृतिहरू पार्टर्ीीाठ्यक्रममा राखेका छन् । बाबुराम भट्टर्राई, प्रदीप नेपाललगायत धेरैले मेरा कृतिहरू पढेर कम्युनिस्ट भएको बताएका छन् ।" केन्द्रीय कारागारमा उनले लेखेको गोलघरको सन्देश छापिनेबित्तिकै ३५ हजार प्रति बिक्री भएको थियो । 'कुरूपताको अध्यारोमा सुन्दर साहित्य र कलाको जन्म हुन्छ' भन्ने पाब्लो पिकासोले भनाइजस्तै हरेक सुन्दर साहित्यको जन्म अध्यारा कालकोठरीमा भएका छन् । अभाव, पीडा र सङ्कटको घडीमा सिर्जना गरएिका साहित्य नै जीवन्त बनेका छन् । तिनीहरू नै मानवीय संवेदना उजागर गर्न र पाठकको मनमुटुमा बस्न सफल भएका छन् । खुला आकाशमा भन्दा चारैतिर पर्खालले घेरएिका अध्यारा कोठामा सिर्जना गरएिका रचनाहरू जीवनका मार्गदर्शक बनेका छन् ।जेल बसाइका क्रममा साहित्य लेख्ने स्वदेशी तथा विदेशी राजनेता र साहित्यकारहरूको सूची लामै छ । नेपालमा यसका अग्रणी हुन्, विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला । उनले धेरैजसो साहित्य जेलमा नै लेखेका हुन् । स्वतन्त्र भारत आन्दोलनमा सक्रिय रहदा पटनामा पक्राउ परेका बीपीलाई बन्दीपुर जेलमा थुनिएको थियो । त्यही भारतीय प्रधानमन्त्री राजेन्द्रप्रसादले लेखेका थिए, इन्डिया डिभाइडेड । बीपीलाई राजा महेन्द्रले थुप्रैपटक जेलमा राखे । जेलबाट निस्कदा एक दर्जन कृतिका पाण्डुलिपि लिएर निस्कने सपना पालेका थिए बीपीले । नभन्दै तीन घुम्ती, नरेन्द्र दाइ, सुम्निमा, मोदी आइन, श्वेतभैरवी, बाबुआमा र छोरा, मेरो कथाको पाण्डुलिपि तयार पारे । लेजरक्विस्टद्वारा लिखित द साइवलको अनुवाद पनि जेलमै गरेका थिए । शरदचन्द्र चर्टर्जी, रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर, लियो टल्सटाय, म्याक्सिम गोर्की र इभान तर्ुगनेवका किताबहरू पढ्न रुचाउने बीपीका लेखहरू बनारस, नया“दिल्ली, लन्डन, कोलकाता र पेरसिका पत्रपत्रिकाहरूमा छापिएका थिए । जेलभित्र लेख्न पाइदैनथ्यो । कापी-कलम राख्नसमेत दिइएको थिएन । चौकीदारसग मिलेर कागज र सिसाकलम गोप्य रूपमा मगाउन बीपी सफल भएका थिए तर उनलाई लुकाउने समस्याले पिरोलिरहन्थ्यो । खाना पकाउने चुलोमा उनी सिसाकलम र कागज लुकाउथे । बीपी मासिक ३५-४० का दरले पत्र लेख्थे । शैलजा आचार्य, रोशा, तारिणी र धरणीधर कोइराला अनि जवाहरलाल नेहरू आदि पत्र पाउनेहरूमा थिए । नेहरूलाई पठाइएको पत्रसग जोडिएको एउटा रमाइलो प्रसङ्ग छ । एकपटक पत्र लेख्न कागजको अभाव भयो बीपीलाई । हावाले उडाएर ल्याएको साबुनको खोलमा नेहरूलाई पत्र लेखे । त्यो पत्र जुत्ताको तलुवाभित्र सिलाएर गोप्य रूपमा भारत पठाइयो ।कृष्णप्रसाद भट्टर्राई र बालचन्द्र शर्माले त्यस पत्रलाई नेहरूकहा पुर्‍याएका थिए । बीपीले लेखेको पत्र पढ्दा जवाहरलाल नेहरूका आ“खाभरि आ“सु थियो रे ! त्यो पत्र अहिले भारतको नेहरू स्मारक सङ्ग्रहालयमा राखिएको छ । ०१८ माघ ५ गते सुन्दरीजल जेलमा बीपीले लेखेको डायरीको सानो अंश यस्तो छ, "हिजो घरबाट आएका किताबहरूलाई सुम्सुम्याए, नया किताब तरुनी हुन् । तिनमा आफूलाई चुर्लुम्म पार्नुभन्दा पहिले तिनीहरूलाई सुम्सुम्याउनुपर्छ, यताउता उल्टाइपल्टाइ हेर्नुपर्छ, एउटा आशा र उत्कण्ठाको सरसरी नजर माथिदेखि तलसम्म हाल्नुपर्छ, यसो सुघ्नुपर्छ ।"जेलभित्र विश्वका पनि थुप्रै राजनेता एवम् साहित्यकारले लेखेका छन् । दक्षिण अप्रिकाका राष्ट्रपति नेल्सन मन्डेलाले आफ्नो २७ वर्षो लामो जेल जीवनमा लङ वाक् टू प्रिडम नामक किताब लेखेका छन् । त्यस्तै नाइजेरयिन लेखक केन सारो विवाले सोजाल्वाय, क्रिस अवानिले कालाकुता, हिटलरले मेनकेम्फजस्ता थुप्रै कृतिहरू जेलमा लेखेका हुन् ।स्वतन्त्र भारतका प्रथम प्रधानमन्त्री जवाहरलाल नेहरूद्वारा छोरी इन्दिरालाई जेलबाट लेखिएका पत्रहरू विश्व साहित्यमा निकै चर्चित छन् । राजनीतिमा लाग्न इन्दिरा गान्धीलाई ती पत्रहरूले निकै सघाएका थिए । भारतीय राजनेता लाला लाजपत राय, गोपालकृष्णलगायतबाट प्रभावित नेहरू र उनका पिता मोतीलाल जेलमा सगै थिए । पिता र पुत्रलाई छ महिना जेलमा राखियो । जेलमै सुरु भयो नेहरूको साहित्यिक यात्रा । डिस्कवरी अफ इन्डिया, आत्मवृत्तँन्त र दर्ुइ भागमा बाडिएको विश्व इतिहासबारेको ठेली नेहरूले जेलमै लेखेका थिए । सबैको मन छुन सफल नेहरूले आफ्नी छोरीका लागि लेखिएको पत्रको सानो अंश यस्तो छः"प्यारी इन्दु ! जीवन जतिसुकै कठोरपनले भरएि पनि मेरा निम्ति ज्यादै सुन्दर छ । लाग्छ, मैले अझै कठोर कार्य गर्नुपरेको छ । मेराबारेमा चिन्ता नगर्नू, मैले जानीजानी आफ्नो पथ रोजेको हु“ । हरेक पुस्ताले आ-आफ्ना समयको सामना गर्नुपर्दछ ।"नेहरूकै झल्को दिने गरी शिक्षा तथा संस्कृतिमन्त्री प्रदीप नेपालले 'माघ १९' पछि प्रहरी तालिम केन्द्र, महाराजगन्जको खप्तड जेल र दुवाकोटबाट छोरीलाई सम्बोधन गर्दै पत्र लेखे । उनी भन्छन्, "माघ १९ पछि महाराजगन्ज थुनामा रह“दा लेखिएका कथा, कविता, संस्मरण र पत्रहरूलाई किताबको रूप दिने तयारीमा छु ।"०३३ सालमा केन्द्रीय कारागारमा रह“दा उनले सञ्जय थापाका नाममा लेखेका ५० वटा कथा शासकहरूले खोसे तर जेलमा नै क्रान्तिकारी महिला मारयिा लोरेवारोसका बारेमा लेखिएको किताब पूर्वाञ्चलमा मात्रै पा“च हजार प्रति बिक्री भयो । उनको उपन्यास स्वप्नील सहरमा नख्खु जेलमा बिताएका क्षणहरू प्रतिविम्बित छन् । पूर्वकम्युनिस्ट नेता राधाकृष्ण मैनालीले भैरहवा र वीरगन्ज जेलमा रहदा बन्दी रहर लेखे । र, उनको अतीतका सम्झनाहरू जेलकै पृष्ठभूमिमा लेखिएको छ । प्रथम गणतन्त्रवादी नेता रामराजाप्रसाद सिंहले जेलमा नाटक लेखेका छन् । दक्षिण अमेरिकी कम्युनिस्ट नेता चे ग्वेभाराकी महिला साथी क्लाराका बारेमा नाटक लेख्नुका साथै जेलमै नाटक खेलाए उनले । त्यसरी नाटक खेल्नेमा अहिलेका अर्थमन्त्री रामशरण महत, शान्ति तथा पुनःनिर्माण मन्त्री रामचन्द्र पौडेल, खेमराज भट्ट 'मायालु', इश्वर लामालगायत थिए । युगकवि सिद्धिचरण श्रेष्ठले अधिकांश रचना जेलमै लेखेका थिए । तिनीहरूमा उर्वशी, मेरो प्रतिविम्ब, कारागारका सम्झना, ज्यानमारा र नेवारीमा सिस्ता, फुस्वा, तृष्णा, लुमनि, धामा, ग्वयस्वा आदि हुन् । क्रान्तिकारी कविता लेखेको र राजनीतिमा लागेको अभियोगमा सिद्धिचरणलाई १८ वर्षो जेल सजाय दिइएको थियो । गङ्गालाल, धर्मभक्त, दशरथ चन्द, शुक्रराज, जगतमान वैद्य, फत्तेबहादुर सिंह, जोगवीरसिंह कंसाकारका साथै सिद्धिचरणलाई त्यहा“ राखिएको थियो । राणाशासनको विरोध गरेबापत वीरगन्जमा धच गोतामे, भूपेन्द्रलाल श्रेष्ठ, ठाकुरकुमारस“गै पक्राउ परेका श्यामप्रसाद शर्माले जेलमा थुनुवाको डायरी र मेरा डायरीका पाना लेखेका छन् । श्यामप्रसाद भन्छन्, "मेरा कुरा किताबमा नै समेटिएका छन् ।" श्यामप्रसाद मात्र किन - कविकेशरी चित्तधर हृदयले छ वर्षजेलमा बिताउदा सुगत सौरभ -महाकाव्य) लेखेका छन् । जेल साहित्यलाई अध्ययन गर्दा भुल्नै नसकिने पाटो हो, माओवादी सशस्त्र 'जनयुद्ध' । त्यस क्रममा थुप्रै व्यक्तिहरू जेल परे । अधिकांशले सिर्जनामै समय बिताए । कवि तथा पत्रकार कृष्ण सेन 'इच्छुक'ले सहयोद्धा मित्रमणि आचार्यको सम्झनामा शोकाञ्जली काव्य लेखेका छन् । बन्दी र चन्द्रागिरि अनि इतिहासको यस घडीमा पनि सेनले जेलमै लेखेका हुन् । ०५९ मा भारतको पटनामा पक्राउ परेकी माओवादी कार्यकर्ता निभा शाहले जेलमा लेखिएका कविता समावेश गरेर किताब निकालेकी छन्, इन्कलाब जिन्दावाद । केन्द्रीय कारागारमा बन्दी जीवन बिताएकी निभा साथीहरूसित कविता, गीत, गजल लेख्ने गरेको सुनाउछिन् । त्यस्तै, जनयुद्धमा लागेका गणेश भण्डारीले आस्थाको निहारकिा, गङ्गा श्रेष्ठले ज्वालामुखीमाथिको यात्रा लेखेका छन् । त्यस्तै शान्ता श्रेष्ठको अन्धकारभित्रको अन्धकार, उमा भूजेलको बन्द पर्खालदेखि खुला आकाशसम्म, कृष्ण केसीको मानव वधशाला प्रकाशित छन् । राजनीतिक अभियोग मात्र होइन, विभिन्न अभियोग लागेर थुनामा परेकाहरू पनि सिर्जनामा व्यस्त छन् ।

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