सगरमाथाको नृत्यमग्न आत्मा

नेपाल प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठानको परियोजनाअन्तर्गत नेपाली कला साहित्य प्रतिष्ठानद्वारा प्रकाशित ‘सगरमाथाको नृत्यमग्न आत्मा’ नेपाली कविताको महत्वपूर्ण ग्रन्थ हो । मोमिलाद्वारा सम्पादित यस ग्रन्थले नेपाली आधुनिक कविताको सार्थक झलक दिन्छ । कति अर्थमा यो नेपाली कविताको दुर्लभ ग्रन्थ पनि हो ।

आधुनिक कविता केलाई मान्ने यसमा विवाद हुनसक्छ । कतिले लेखनाथ पौडेल त कतिले देवकोटालाई नेपाली आधुनिक कविताको प्रस्थान विन्दू मानेका छन् । मोमिलाले भने नेपाली गद्यकविताका सफल प्रयोक्ता गोपालप्रसाद रिमाललाई मानेकी छन् । यो मान्यता तर्कशील पनि छ । रिमाल नै त्यस्ता कवि हुन् जसले परम्परागत सम्पूर्ण पर्खाल भत्काएर गद्यमा पनि कविताका उत्ताल तरंग दिन सकिन्छ भन्ने सावित गरेका थिए । हुन पनि आजसम्म चेतनाका हिसाबले उनका कवितालाई छुनसक्ने कविता नेपाली भाषामा शायदै लेखिएका छन् । कवितामा क्रान्तिचेत र सुन्दर भाषा रिमालका कविताका खास चिनारी हुन् । उनका उच्च क्रान्तिचेतयुक्त दुई कविता ‘प्रति’ र ‘आमाको सपना’ यसमा समेटिएका छन् ।

हिरो बाई मिस्टेक

BY CHANKY SHRESTHA

पाठ्यक्रममा कुनै समय एउटा निबन्ध पढ्नुपथ्र्यो- हिरो बाई मिस्टेक । बस्तीमा फैलिएको आगो निभाउन प्रमुख पात्रले कुनै काम गरेको हुँदैन संयोगले ऊ साहसिक नायक ठहर्छ । नेपालमा दुई नायक अत्यधिक चर्चामा छन् । सिनेमामा राजेश हमाल र राजनीतिमा गिरिजाप्रसाद कोइराला । संयोगले दुवैको नायकी बाई मिस्टेक हो ।

सत्ताको मैदानमा

BY CHANKY SHRESTHA

माधव नेपालको ‘संघर्षको मैदान’ सकियो र ‘सत्ताको मैदान’ सुरु भयो ।
रुक्मांगद कटवाल प्रकरणबाट संवैधानिक राष्ट्रप्रमुखले मैदान’ सकियो र ‘सत्ताको मैदान’ सुरु भयो ।
रुक्मांगद कटवाल प्रकरणबाट संवैधानिक राष्ट्रप्रमुखले मन्त्रिपषिद्को निर्णय आफ्नै ुविवेकुअनुसार नमाने पनि हुन्छ भन्ने नजिर कायम भएको छ । त्यसमा कांग्रेसलगायत दक्षिणपन्थी दल र ुव्यावसायिक बुद्धिजीवीहरुले ल्याप्चे लगाइदिएका छन् । सामान्य राजनीतिक चेतना हुनेलाई पनि थाहा छ सरकारले संवैधानिक राष्ट्र प्रमुखको मृत्युप्रस्तावको सिफारिस गरे पनि उनी त्यसमा सही गर्न बाध्य हुनेछन् । तर यहाँ लोकतन्त्रलाई नै कांग्रेसलगायत दक्षिणपन्थी दलको सापेक्ष बनाइएको छ । एमालेकै उत्तोलनमा आएको दोहोरो सत्ताको स्थिति उसैका लागि घाँडो हुनेछ ।

निर्वाण

चंकी श्रेष्ठ ‘अभय’
विगत पाँच वर्षदेखि म त्यो केटीको खोजीमा थिएँ । मेरी पूर्व प्रेमिका…॥ । नढाँटी भन्छु म त्यसको हत्या गर्न चाहन्थेँँ ।

मेरो जीवन त्यस्तो विलखबन्द यात्रा थियो जसको वरिपरि केवल भीर थियो र प्रतिगमनको म जन्मजात शत्रु थिएँ । म बारम्बार एउटै कुराले उत्पीडित थिएँ र त्यो मेरो जन्मसँगै अभिन्नरुपमा टाँसिएर आएको जातीय पीडा थियो । गरिवी त त्यसको अभिन्न अंग छँदै थियो । त्यसले मानौ व्यक्तित्व नै धारण गरेर मसँग दुश्मनी गरिरहेको थियॊ । प्रेममा विश्वासमा यात्रामा मनोविज्ञानमा र जीवनका हरेक पाइलामा चुनौती दिइरहेको थियो र मलाई पराजित पनि गरिरहेको थियो ।

मेरा साथीहरु त प्रशस्त हुन्थे तर तिनको भीडमा म नितान्त एक्लो हुन्थेँ । त्यसैको फाइदा उठाएर त्यो डिप्रेसनकै पाजा फिँजाएर मेरो घाँटी निमोठिरहेको हुन्थ्यो ।

मलाई दिमागभित्रबाट बारम्बार कसैले आत्मघातका लागि उक्साइरहेझैँ लाग्थ्यो । त्यो मेरो कानमा एकोहोरो घन्टी बजाइरहेको हुन्थ्यो मानौ म आफैँसँग भनिरहेको हुन्थेँ मेरो जीवन हारेको जीवन हो । त्यसपछि मेरो किलकिले थिच्दै त्यो भन्थ्यो तँ मेरो युद्धबन्दी होस् यस कारण म तँलाई मनलागी यातना दिन्छु ।

म त्योसँग विद्रोह गरिरहेको हुन्थेँ र बारम्बार त्यसको बन्धनबाट मुक्त हुन छट्पटाइरहेको हुन्थेँ । अन्त्यमा त्यो मेरो छातीमा एसएलआर तेस्र्याउँथ्यो र मारिदिने धम्की दिन्थ्यो । पछि थाहा हुन्थ्यो त्यो त मेरो चिरप्रतिद्वन्द्वी उही जात नै हुन्थ्यो ।

डाक्टर देखाउने हैसियत हुँदो हो त आधुनिक चिकित्सा विज्ञानले मलाई सिजोप्रुेनिक वा यस्तै केही भनिदिनसक्थ्यो । हिमवत् खण्डको हाम्रो महान् समाजशास्त्रले बनाएको सिजोप्रुेनिक ! यो एउटा नामी हास्यको विषय हुनसक्थ्यो । गरिवी मलाई पुस्तेनी सम्पतिका रुपमा प्राप्त थियो र बेरोजगारी त मेरो आफ्नै जातिगत सम्पति छँदै थियो । हाम्रो देशमा लोकतन्त्र आए पनि ढोकतन्त्रप्रेमीहरुको जुन प्रशासन थियो त्यसले मलाई जीवनभरि नै बेरोजगार राख्ने खतरा सत प्रतिसत बढेर गएको थियो । त्यसमाथि देशले जातीय असमानताको नाका भत्काइदिए पनि समाजले यसलाई अक्षय पैतृक पुँजीका रुपमा सुरक्षित राखेको थियो । जातकै कारण म झण्डै एक दलित युवकको नियति भोगिरहेको थिएँ । हो जातीय पीडाकै कारण सम्भवतः म संसारकै सबैभन्दा दुःखी युवक थिएँ र त्यो दुःखी युवक डाक्टर देखाउने हैसियतमा थिएन ।

जीवनको भूमरी

चंकी श्रेष्ठ

संवत् २०३१ साल माघ २७ । आँगनको काङ्गियो फूलको रुखमुनि हरियो गोबरले पोतिएको भुइँमा आमालाई सुताइएको थियो । दिदीहरु घोप्टो परेर भक्कानिँदै रोइरहेका थिए । बा असाध्यै चुपचाप आमाअगाडि घोरिएर बसिरहनुभएको थियो । के बाको अनुहार हामीलाई रुवाउन काफी थिएन

Welldone Prashreet !

CPN-UML leader and noted litterateur Modanath Prashit announced to retire from the active political life on Monday. He had long been active in the communist movement of Nepal . He made the announcement to be away from the political life by organizing a press conference . Sixty-seven-year-old Prashit said he would spend rest of his life on literature, culture and history. He had been active in the communist movement since 1968 AD. Really Prashreet, you had better write socio-cultural writeups more and more. It is praiseworthy that you have made room for the creative youths. When will the oldies of Neplali politics learn this lesson ?

UML 8th convention

CPN-UML completed preparations for its 8^th convention that is due to begin in Butwal,  Monday. Security has been beefed up on the eve of the convention to be participated by the top leaders of major political parties and representatives from abroad.

General secretary of the party Jhalanath Khanal is scheduled to open the convention at 1 pm.

Convention representatives, foreign delegates and leaders from different political parties including former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala have arrived here to take part in the convention. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is expected to come tomorrow. Forty representatives of 21 political parties from 14 different countries are attending the event.

“We have tightened security keeping the convention in mind,” said chief district officer Dhubaraj Wagle.

He said that 2000 security personnel have been mobilised and a number of security teams comprising 40 security personnel have been deployed on the southern areas of Kapilvastu, Nawalparasi and Rupandehi districts keeping in view the sensitivity in those places.

Vehicles that pass through the highway have been stopped from playing.

Wagle said there wouldn’t be any security problems to convention participants, in case that happened the security forces have been instructed to take action immediately.

There is coordination between the party volunteers and police force, according to Wagle.

Ishwor Pokharel, coordinator of the central publicity committee said more than 1000 volunteers would be in action on the inaugural day and about 350 on the following days.

Standing Committee member Pradeep Nepal said that efforts were underway for consensus to elect the new leadership.

His village is waiting for him

BY BRABIM KUMAR KC
It has been almost more than a year that we haven’t met each other; I always had a very positive impression about him. A creative guy, an enthusiastic youth leader and a social entrepreneur, Last time when I was at his village, he had shown many things that he and his team has done in their village. They had started a small library without any support from donor organization. They had a small saving group where they used to save some amount of money every week. They had formed a youth group to protect their community forest and already started plantation of some herbs. Everything was so appreciating. I hadn’t read a single spot of frustration on his face. Though he had expected some fund from V.D.C, as they were youth they were not supported a single penny. Not only V.D.C local political leaders were also in against of their campaign, as we all aware about the politics in Nepal.

After a year, I got call from an unknown number; the voice said “Namaste”. It was the same soft and energetic voice. He had decided to go abroad and before leaving Nepal he wanted to meet me. The next day we met at a tea shop. He said “I am going Arab day after tomorrow”. I am confused, is he a same energetic guy? The same entrepreneur who had brought many changes in his village? I was paused for some minutes. I just said; take care, have a safe journey. Please return soon with some skills and knowledge, the country needs you.

The whole night I think about him, why he want to go abroad? What made him so frustrated? The politics? The conservative society? The more expectation from his parents?

Thousands of youth are moving in the same way, what will the effect of this mass migration? Have anybody has taken it in seriously?

After some months, I again went to his village, the library was not there, youth saving group has been already collapsed, and community forest users group was inactive. It was very hard to meet a single guy of age 20.

The village was just waiting “HIS” return for the continuity of the projects he had started and for the transformation of society. Who knows what he is doing in the desert of ARAB? Who knows when he will come back again?

Matrika to reconstitute CPN-Moist

Expressing dissent with his ‘former’ party, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in which he has been the politburo member, Matrika Yadav Wednesday declared in a press meet that he had no relation with the UCPN-Maoist and that he would ‘reconstitute’ the CPN-Maoist.

Yadav, who has been a minister from his former party twice, blamed that UCPN-Maoist leadership had ignored the pledges made during the decade long People’s War.

“As our party has got united with groups and parties which are devoid of revolutionary thought, it has started working in a non-proletarian way, the party has taken a class coordination way, I declare that I have no relation with the UCPN-Maoist and now onwards will work to reconstitute the CPN-Maoist as its central committee members,” he read out a statement.

He blamed the leadership for sidelining the revolutionary activists of the Madheshi origin.

Yadav said that he would talk with other dissidents of the party and reform it to continue with the spirit of the People’s War. He said that he would very soon give up the membership of the Constituent Assembly and start fresh agitation with demands for the rights of the people.

Ghee for dogs they failed to digest !

Finance Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai strongly reacted to remarks by UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal on Maoist army as irresponsible and termed this as “ghee for dogs they would fail to digest.”

At a press conference in Pokhara Thursday, Nepal had commented that the People’s Liberation Army members deserved to be jailed. Speaking at a local convention of party cadres in Panauti, Dr. Bhattarai said UML was creating hurdles in formation of local bodies. “This has hampered the implementation of the people-oriented budget programmes,” he said, while urging the UML to work together with Maoist party, “because all communists need to be united as a single party of the proletariat.” He argued that UML, which was reduced from its stature as the biggest party before the Constituent Assembly elections, would shrink further if it continued to act irresponsibly.

Dr. Bhattarai alleged Nepali Congress was ignoring the people’s verdict expressed through the CA elections and urged it to respect the mandate and join the government. Stating that it was guns that ended Gyanendra’s reign of guns, he warned of spearheading another revolution if hurdles were created in the way of people’s liberation. CA members and representatives of UML and NC also spoke at the function. 

Meanwhile in Butwal, CPN-UML Standing Committee Member and Publicity Department Chief Ishwor Pokhrel said though the UML was in alliance with Maoist at present, his party would protest every wrongdoing of the Maoist. He expressed such views while addressing a regional cadres’ meet in Butwal Saturday. Urging Maoists to give up the misdeeds, leader Pokhrel further said the forthcoming general convention of the party would review its alliance with the Maoist.

He added that his party would adopt a tit for tat policy if the assault on party cadres was not ended. Meanwhile RSS ads that President of Nepal Majdur Kisan Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe Saturday has blamed other communists parties that are in the government were not real communists in their conducts and theory. Speaking in a programme organised by his party to award the prize of district level boys and girls Kabbadi winners, Bijukchhe said his party was in opposition because other communist parties that are in the cabinet are moving forward saving the capitalistic government. In the competition, on boys’ side Bhaktapur Municipality Workers’ Union and Unique Unity team bagged the prize of first and second with Rs 4000 and Rs 2000, Shield, Medal and Certificate respectively. Bayasi Jankala Sadan and Sahid Smirti Bachanalay jointly received the third prize winning Rs 1000. Likewise, on the girls’ side Mt. Everest Higher Secondary School, Nepal Revolutionary Students’ Union second and Bageshwori Higher Secondary School got the first, second and third prize respectively.