The Gorkha Times

16/10/2022

Passing
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Dr. Kashiraj Pandey

Dr. Kashiraj PandeyFairly giant,Mighty and dreadful;an uninvited visitor thatprecedes life, followed everyonefrom the womb, hammers on the door,so sudden!Doesn’t fall amiss and has no-needto get out of our sheltered seats as a mere courtesyupon its arrival; not wasting a momentin a flash, it depar...

16/10/2022

Tribute, Satya Mohan Joshi

06/08/2022

A brilliant review of a wonderful book by a brilliant reviewer

Sushant Thapa  One thing which stands out in verses of poet Gopal Lahiri is the abstraction of ideas. Abstract imageries develop the readers’ proximity with the ideas he wants to convey. Poetry can be liquidated in a certain form when we try to express our ideas; the abstraction does not always p...

06/08/2022

https://thegorkhatimes.com/2022/08/06/6030/

Sushant Thapa  One thing which stands out in verses of poet Gopal Lahiri is the abstraction of ideas. Abstract imageries develop the readers’ proximity with the ideas he wants to convey. Poetry can be liquidated in a certain form when we try to express our ideas; the abstraction does not always p...

02/06/2022

Apane Aranya ki Or (A review)

V.K.Joshi A work of fiction has infinite possibilities. It gives the greatest scope to a creative and imaginative author for putting across to his readers his own approach toward situations and people on the one hand and, on the other, it allows him to give his own interpretations of life around him...

26/04/2022

My Grey Stories: My Confessions

Mahesh Paudyal Aparichit Anuhar (2078) is my third collection of stories for adults, after Anamik Yatri (2067) and Tyaspachhi Phulena Godavari (2074). In fact, the story was always there inside me. I remember my first story “The Leave Taking,” that appeared in Manipur-based English Daily The San...

26/04/2022

A Drop of Water by Dr. Dr. Shefalika Verma

Dr. Shefalika Verma I demanded a drop of waterThough my thirst was wider than the ocean. Like an ascetic young woman’s strange lifeMy mind was never drawn to anyThis complaint never came to my lips;Why didn’t it rain in my courtyard ?My burning feet in the desertNever craved for a shade.Among th...

26/04/2022

Beautiful poems by Sushant Thapa

Free Life Gone are the days of confessionsNow the sky is brightThe love cradle sings a sweet lullabyThe music I hear is my anticipationFor the melodious tomorrow.How simple is the poetry of soul andThe flowing cascades of light of the moonTreasures happiness unexpressed.The flower of every new words...

12/03/2022

https://thegorkhatimes.com/2022/03/12/i-always-imagine-myself-on-the-side-of-the-margin-alaichanickl-joseph-thomas/

[Alaichanickl Joseph Thomas is a renowned Indian poet and translation who writes in English and Malayalam with equal ease. He was born in 1952. He secured his PhD in English, specializing in literary translation. He served at Indian Sahitya Akedemi in different roles. He was a former Guest Editor at...

12/03/2022

Please enjoy.
Thank you so much Uday Sir.

[Alaichanickl Joseph Thomas is a renowned Indian poet and translation who writes in English and Malayalam with equal ease. He was born in 1952. He secured his PhD in English, specializing in literary translation. He served at Indian Sahitya Akedemi in different roles. He was a former Guest Editor at...

27/02/2022

Uday Adhikari has a detailed talk with Dr. Sarita Sharma from Assam, India. Please enjoy.

Dr. Sarita Sharma is an Indian academician, author, poet, translator and keynote speaker. She is editor-in-chief of TAFFD’s- The Magazine of the Future (USA). She has nine books to her credit including edited and translated books. Her most acclaimed works include Days V, a collection of poems and ...

15/02/2022

We deeply condole the demise of renowned writer, critic and linguist Taranath Sharma. He shall be badly missed. His loss cannot be repaired. Rest in peace, Sir.

15/02/2022

What did Taranath Sharma say about Siddhicharan Shrestha?

Taranath Sharma It was exactly fifty-six years earlier from today that I had moved to the famous Benaras Hindu University in Varanasi for my graduate studies, after passing the intermediate examination in Humanities in the first division from St. Joseph College, Darjeeling, affiliated to Kolkata Uni...

15/02/2022

[Kumari Lama is one of those very few critics and essayists who ascended to the helm of fame quite early in life. A post-graduate in English literature, Lama is author of Ujyalo Andhakar, a collection of essays. Besides this book-size delivery, she has published several isolated essays, research pap...

03/01/2022

Old Tree and the Nightingale

Mahesh Paudyal “HANG ON DEAR moon,” said the nightingale, “for there is no light, and I am not yet decided where I would put up tonight.” It was extremely cold though the sky looked very clear. It was twilight but the moon was just an arc of diamond upon the head on the western mountain. [.....

07/11/2021

Embedded politics in Abhi Subedi's 'Bruised Evenings'

Mahesh Paudyal Tony Morrison said it perfectly well when she said, anything written is political. ‘The work must be political’ claimed she in her epoch-making critical work Black Women Writers. Literature across the world reveals this, including the most unexpected territories like those of fair...

02/11/2021

13/09/2021

Sindhiya Shrestha  Neena Gupta was born on 4th June 1959 in New Delhi to Roop Narayan Gupta and Shakuntala Gupta. She did her master’s degree and M.Phil. in Sanskrit, and is an alumnus of National School of Drama   (NSD), New Delhi.  Her mother wanted her to become an IAS officer but she ...

19/08/2021

Rama Adhikari, TGTKathmandu, August 19 Two anthologies of poems for children, one each in English and Nepali, were launched virtually on ZOOM on Thursday. Senior writer and critic Prof. Dr. Govinda Raj Bhattarai launched these anthologies edited by Mohan Singh Saud. The anthologies have been publish...

13/08/2021

Interviewer: Sangita Swechcha [Dr Sara Kapadia is an artist, educator, yoga teacher, academic, and writer who uses a transdisciplinary approach in all her projects. Sara, who currently is based in the USA, is of South Asian descent. She was born and raised in London, United Kingdom. A PhD graduate f...

13/07/2021

By Mahesh Paudyal Poet Bhanubhkta Acharya of Nepal (1814 – 1868) , most popularly known as aadikavi, or the pioneering poet, has the same position as that of Geoffrey Chaucer, the first ‘modern’ English poet. The prefix ‘aadi’ and the adjective ‘first’ tagged with the names of Bhanubh...

13/07/2021

By Gopal Parajuli Bharjanma ghaanstira mann diyi dhan kamayoNaam kyei rahos pachhi bhanera kuwa khanayoGhansi daridra gharako tara buddhi kastoMa Bhanubhakta dhani bhaikana aaja yasto! [He gathered fodder all his life, and earned a little. With it, he got a well dug up, hoping it would give him some...

11/07/2021

A must-read stuff

B Traven Mr E.L.Winthrop of New York was on vacation in the Republic of Mexico. It wasn’t long before he realised that this strange and really wild country had not yet been fully explored by Rotarians and Lions, who are forever conscious of their glorious mission on earth. Therefore he considered ...

11/07/2021

Satya Narayan Sardar After supper, I always bothered my grandfather for telling a story. He often told stories of angels, smart princes, poverty, struggling farmers, and about so many other topics. I went to him and began to force him to tell another story. My grandfather had been coughing for a lon...

11/07/2021

Bharat Chand An old person I usually saw on the balcony of his house near Golfutar holding newspapers early in the morning last year during lockdown is not seen these days anymore. I still pass by the same house every morning and move my eyes towards the house whether he could be seen as I […]

09/07/2021

Pratik Kamali Nepal is a landlocked country between India and China. It is beautiful but underdeveloped country. As many people, I am also dreaming about ‘New Nepal’. The new Nepal in my dream will have the hardworking people who will do their best in the development of country. The people of ne...

08/07/2021

Shyam Gaire Namaskar Doctor, I saidHe responded with respect.When a squirrel and a pigeon were playingVisitor of Room no.264 cameHosted by guard with that term. The patient was taken upward on a lift But not by parallel shift At the time of writing, a helicopter comesPeople stand with their cameras....

07/07/2021

Bagawath Bhandari As rain pelts down the sky,My thoughts dwindle in solitary cry,Flashing the memories of bygone days,Rejuvenating the energy amid hairs in grey. Every lustrous bloom dances in delight,Beneath the cuddle of flashing lights,Of sky in the painful twilight,As pain germinates welcoming t...

05/07/2021

Binod DawadiYou work for others but they don’t remember to youYou care and love others but they don’t care to youYou think always good thoughts about them but they,Don’t think good thoughts about you instead theyFeel jealous about you instead well thoughts they, Don’t pray for you but you wi...

04/07/2021

(In Memory of Poet Haribhakta Katuwal)Avinash Shrestha I feel,I should rest my ageOn these blue mimosa flowers.Who knows the whims of time—Nest instantwhich turn it may take. EyesResting on the boulder of solid beliefsThat support lifeSkid down like feet on scum,MindSheltered and secured with wish...

04/07/2021

Pain When you feel pain Like no other You want to erase that painYou want to bottle it Cause you can’t humanly Stand it anymore So people cause more pain to themselves For that one second of overmatched Sense of numbnessThat one millisecond of euphoria For that one microsecond of no worry For no e...

02/07/2021

Sushant Thapa When a poet is all alone andBeauty he has saved.When what he wants to speakIs all writtenHe sees a well in himselfDescribing that wellWould be like emptying oneself andFilling with the water of gushing feelings.He is complete in thoughtsWhen puzzles fit to form a complete picture Creat...

28/06/2021

Mahesh Paudyal Everyone passing along that narrow hill trail saw the two brothers—one ten and the other eight, probably—playing on the bank of the Mugu Karnali, but few cared to stop and see what they were doing. We thought of taking a short rest there; we were extremely tired from walking uphil...

28/06/2021

Satya Narayan Sardar Gopal, together with his friend Pradeep, went to a teashop. Though it was hilly region they felt a rise in temperature, possibly because of global warming. It was midafternoon and both the friends had been there for some snacks as it was lunch break. “Maiya Did! ” Gopal trie...

28/06/2021

Kuma Raj Subedi My mother is a nymphWith bright lit up face,Descended to lift upHer round face-Big enough to hold skies and vale’sWhich I see my nation-Her wrinkles demarcate the boundaries Scars-the sacrifices of martyrsSmall nose stud,Yet magnanimous like herself in natureShines the culture . Sw...

28/06/2021

THE DREAM-BRIDGE

Mahesh Paudyal Everyone passing along that narrow hill trail saw the two brothers—one ten and the other eight, probably—playing on the bank of the Mugu Karnali, but few cared to stop and see what they were doing. We thought of taking a short rest there; we were extremely tired from walking uphil...

26/06/2021

Rishi Prasad Subedi I am not sure if it is love. It is not nothing either. As I hold the card, my hand promptly goes towards his left hand helping his fingers pinch one edge of the card. Just nearby my two of the fingers pinching it. Out of nowhere a force trembled my little […]