AMAR NEUPANE
Amar
Neupane is a Nepali youth
novelist and personality in Nepalese literature.
His first novel Paniko Gham (Water's
Sun) was published in 2066 BS and
won the Padhyashree Sahitya Samman award. His collection
of children's stories Kalilo Man (Young
Heart) won the Parijat Balsahitya Pandulipi Purashkar award.
His novel Seto Dharti won the Madan
Puraskar—the greatest award in Nepalese literature—and also the Ramraj
Panta Smriti Purashkar award. His novel Karodaun
Kasturi is based on the story of what Nepali
comedian Hari Bansha Acharya would have become if
he hadn't recognized his talent as a comedian.
SETO DHARTI
The
story is based on the life of a girl named Tara ( meaning: Stars ). She is a simple
girl living in her village spending her time playing with other children in the
same village. While the story goes on, she gets married at the age of seven,
the very age at which she does not even understand the meaning of marriage. The
story in the novel is of the period 1850-1950 when child marriage used to be
very common.
Tara's husband has to go for his studies to Banaras,
where he dies and Tara is bound to live her life as a child widow. The story
continues and many difficulties come one by one in Tara's life. She comes back
from her husband's home to her father's home. She tries to live her life
peacefully trying to forget all the pain that life gave her when she was a
young child. Later on, her mother dies and she has to take over all the
responsibilities of the house.
At her adult age, she leaves her father's house and
moves to Devghat,
a religious place for Hindus. There she makes a small hut and starts to live a
long, boring life. The story mainly tries to reveal the terrible cultural
practice called child marriage. This story also portrays the pain of a child
widow living her whole life without company. The novel best tries to shows the bitter
reality of Ancient Nepal where
women have to suffer very much after the eradication of most evil
practice Sati.
After
reading this novel, I started liking the writing skills of the novel. I cried a lot when I read the novel. There
were so emotional in the novel. The language, moreover, was typical.
KARODAU KASTURI
Karodau
Kasturi is based on actor/comedian Haribansa Acharya. This novel is all of the imagination,
not the true story though, but reflects the truth of the society. The name of the
novel “Karodau Kasturi” totally justifies the theme of the story.
The
main character or ‘say’ victim in this novel is Haribansa Acharya. He is not
that interested in studying. More than that, caricature drives his heart more.
He used to do a caricature of every one of his teachers, friends, relatives,
and even animals. But the pressure from family and the dream that his father
dreamt for him as seeing him as a doctor makes him dull. Due to the extreme
pressure, he has to shut the door towards his interest and love towards acting
and caricature. He struggles to study and to pass the examination in more than
one try. Because of his fathers’ dream, he studied up to Grade 10 and passes
SLC too. Then, his father let him join intermediate in Science so to make him a
doctor. After trying a year, he gave up that subject and joined Arts which he
thought would be easy than Science.
Slowly and gradually after years of hard work he passed Masters’ degree too. But at the end, where he was about to be a doctor (after studying Ph.D.) he finds all his efforts useless. He does not do what he wants and keeps consciously following what others want him to do all these years of his life. Turning back at all the paths he passed through, in the bumping roads of life, he feels intense pain. The pain becomes so unbearable to him and he finally decides to commit suicide at the end.
Slowly and gradually after years of hard work he passed Masters’ degree too. But at the end, where he was about to be a doctor (after studying Ph.D.) he finds all his efforts useless. He does not do what he wants and keeps consciously following what others want him to do all these years of his life. Turning back at all the paths he passed through, in the bumping roads of life, he feels intense pain. The pain becomes so unbearable to him and he finally decides to commit suicide at the end.
Although the novel has the
message, it didn’t meet my expectations. I had a great expectation because of
his first novel. It not because of the story but there was something that I didn’t
like the novel. For me, there was no X factor in the novel.
Although this novel is
an eye-opening novel to every people around the world who thinks only a good
educational degree leads to a prosperous and happy life, everyone may not think
or agree with it.
GULABI
UMER
The plot
is based on a story written by a student to her teacher. The student sends a
parcel of that story from age 13 to 19 explaining her lifestyle, feelings,
emotions and literally about everything. The story is about students alone and
the teacher is just a catalyst for her writing.
A monologue-kind written book of a girl in her teen period (13 to 19). The character seems mature and childish at the same time due to her explaining and self-exploring nature.
A story about the psychology perspective of a girl from a kid to youth explaining experience about her puberty age, love, distance and closeness between mother and daughter, desire, passion, angry adolescent and growth. It also highlights the problem of being a beautiful young girl: it's the effect on her life and changes required to face it but her age manipulates to enjoy that moment as well.
For me, the story is predictable and quite experimental. In the beginning, I loved the story but the ending or climax part was not accepted. It's a rubbish ending. There was no sense of the ending and climax. The writer could have ended differently. I was quite disappointed after reading the ending part.
A monologue-kind written book of a girl in her teen period (13 to 19). The character seems mature and childish at the same time due to her explaining and self-exploring nature.
A story about the psychology perspective of a girl from a kid to youth explaining experience about her puberty age, love, distance and closeness between mother and daughter, desire, passion, angry adolescent and growth. It also highlights the problem of being a beautiful young girl: it's the effect on her life and changes required to face it but her age manipulates to enjoy that moment as well.
For me, the story is predictable and quite experimental. In the beginning, I loved the story but the ending or climax part was not accepted. It's a rubbish ending. There was no sense of the ending and climax. The writer could have ended differently. I was quite disappointed after reading the ending part.
Amar Neupane has the potential of writing skills and have the conceptual idea but what I feel after reading his novels, he tries to ignore the end part and doesn't prefer to have nice ending. If he had focus on the ending part of Gulabi Umer, the novel could have been excellent.
REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Neupane
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