'Bhupi and Kaila overrated poets'

Multiple Nepali societies can be studied through those poems. on the dimensions of Nepali poetry Hari Adhikari with Deepak Sapkota

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Your famous poem - 'Hari Adhikari is no name', but in the poem you have written - 'Perhaps Hari Adhikari is a Be the name of the poet. Tell me with the author of that poem - What is Hari Adhikari?

Among the many dimensions of my personality, the dimension connected with poetry is the most dear to me. I started my worship of literature by writing poetry. Although over time I have written less poetry and more prose-based stories and essays, my favorite genre is poetry. If one day someone takes the trouble to study my entire composition and try to select my best works by genre, I believe that he will rank my poems above other genres.

That poem 'Hari Adhikari Koi Naam Hai' was composed in the year 2028, when I was working as a clerk in the Directorate of Madhyamanchal Education. The boss of my branch was – Officer Neelam Pradhan. She somehow got to know about my poet personality and kept teasing me as 'poet'. Being 'offended' by his behavior and the fact that even his friends called him 'poet poet', I wrote that poem to satirically present my poet personality. In that, I have tried to expose the unnatural mix between those two different parts of the personality of an ordinary employee who is emerging as a talented poet. I must have felt that people did not look at my writerly persona with an appreciative eye but with a derisive eye. You know better than I what I am and what I am like. If I had to say about myself, I would say - Hari Adhikari is a common man and a tireless literature lover who is moving along with all the complexities of today's life and world.

There is your confession in the role of the book 'Poetry with Five Decades' - 'In the 54 years of poetry-writing, I have written an average of 2 poems a year. I am numerically very poor and a lazy poet.' But there is also pride - 'Is it an achievement as a poet to be able to write poems of the same level continuously for five decades?' How to measure the level of poetry between confession and pride?

The confession I made that I am a poet who writes less poetry is an authentic fact, so I see no reason to be defensive about it. I am well aware that I am not the Chandraprasad Neupane or the Rameshchandra Adhikari of prose poetry. At the same time, I am not a poet who writes as little as Bhupi Sherchan or Bairagi Kaila. I would have written many more poems if my indomitable desire to work in prose and my adopted profession had not demanded me. As fate took that opportunity away from me, I became a writer who wrote mostly prose and little poetry. I am perfectly satisfied, and firm in my opinion, with a subject which you boast of, and which I regard as an achievement, almost on a par with most of my poems. This collection contains all the poems I have written. By reading carefully, you can form an opinion about the almost identical level of my poetry that I have claimed.

In the year 2027, you were 18 years young when your poem won the first gold medal at the Poetry Festival of the then Nepal Government Pragya Academy. Now those days are gone, what is your assessment of these 5 decades of Nepali poetry?

In the past five decades, Nepali society has seen a marked change. Here, politics, art, literature, thinking, life-style and the psychology of our society have also made an indescribable difference. Naturally, Nepali poetry has also been affected by that change. Since the construction of the poem's mood is based on the poet's society, the life he has seen and experienced, and the stories and pains of the people who live with him, with the passage of time, there has been a wide variety in the choice of the poem's subject-objects, expressions, images and symbols, similes and similes. Since time encourages experimentation, there are new experiments in every genre of Nepali literature. The same has been used in Nepali poetry. By asking me to evaluate Nepali poetry, you have expected an impossible task from me. It is not possible to accomplish that task in small talk. I can only say that, in the past five decades, Nepali poetry has set a long and progressive journey.

Some of your poem's characters are Gayatri of Garment, Rukum's girl who makes bricks, Kalpana of Cabin.... These characters teach many aspects of Nepali society. What is the value of these characters in the poem for you? Will writing poetry change his life?

I want to make one thing clear at the outset, Deepakji, I don't believe at all that the poetry I write can make a positive difference in anyone's life. I have taken the various forms and conditions of Nepali women as the subject matter of my poems, so that a whole collage of women's woes, desires, struggles, hardships, inferiority, victories and defeats, who are considered as half the sky of any nation, can be hung on the board of my poetry. You can also take these poems of mine as a tribute to the women who are saving us men with love, support, support and blood and tears. To break the story, the author is always in opposition to the government. Anger and rebellion are the tones of your poetry. What is the age of that element in the poem?

Poetry is an artistic medium that gives voice to rebellion. A good poet is always standing in opposition. As any kind of power tries to suppress the voice of the common people of Trinamool, the writers and poets should come forward as the voice of those akinchans. That is all I am doing through poetry. It is probably not possible to give a definite answer to the question of how long or short is the life of elements like anger and rebellion expressed in poetry. It can be said that how well the poet has presented such anger and rebellion in the poem determines the life of that element.

There is not only anger, but also tenderness in your poems. Are you a rebellious poet or a gentle one?

The situation in which a poem is written, the mood the poet is in, and the subject on which it is written, bring tenderness or anger and rebellious harshness to the poem. I am gentle both as a poet and as a person, but when I write poetry, I am conveying feelings according to the subject matter.

Let's discuss literature and politics at the same time. Literature is the pursuit of life, politics is connected. How is the politics of the nation written in current Nepali poetry?

Today's Nepali poetry is not absolute from today's Nepali politics. It was not possible to do so as a powerful medium of expression. But many of our poets seem to be trying to avoid writing political poetry altogether because of the risk of political poetry losing artistic skill and elegance. Recently, many powerful poets have written poems focusing on identity politics. It seems to me that the poets of that Chimal have started to repeat themselves.

Politics is said to influence literature. How effective is politics in our literature?

Politics is trying to control not only literature, but also affect all aspects of your life. However, the influence of politics on literature is only very subtle. On the contrary, a powerful literary composition can even change the direction and pace of politics. When talking about the influence of today's Nepali politics on literature, it seems limited to giving jobs to the scumbags of the ruling parties in institutions like Pragya Pratishthan and handing out prizes called handi distributed by government agencies to their servants.

You are active in the genres of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism. Which genre is more influential in Nepali context?

The most flourishing genre in Nepali literature is poetry, which has produced world-class works. I don't think it is appropriate to make such a claim about other genres. In the last few decades, I see that the genres of Nepali literature such as essays, poetry, and criticism have shrunk. In today's time, I am afraid that it would be presumptuous to wish to read prose works written by Mahakavi Devkota, Janaklal Sharma, Rajeshwar Devkota, Shankar Lamichhane, Bhairav ​​Aryal, Yadunath Khanal, Ramkrishna Sharma. As a

critic, how do you see the current state of Nepali poetry? What are the poets who are writing now and their comments about their contemporaries?

I have no complaints about the current state of Nepali poetry. My contemporaries, a few younger than me, and poets after Alli are still writing, seem right. Some of the poets who appeared in the 2030s of Vikram and once raised great hopes, could not write in accordance with those hopes. That was a little disappointing. Very good poets have come in the last generation. I am soon bringing out a collection of poems featuring these talented poets.

What are the strengths and limitations of the new generation of poets? Who are the notable poets?

I think that the greatest poetic strength of the new generation of Nepali poets is their efforts to enrich the poetry they write with the quality of good poetry. I also see word discipline in many of these young poets. They seem to have survived the sloganeering. Most of the poets of the new generation are close. I would especially like to mention the names of silent voices, Sharad Pokharel, Naveen Payasi, Neera Sharma, Shanti Priyavandana, Nirbhikjung Rayamazhi, Santosh Thebe etc. The limit of these poets remains to be seen.

There are 'overrated' and 'underrated' poets in Nepali poetry, right?

In my opinion, the most 'overrated' Nepali poets are Bhupi Sherchan and Bairagi Kainla. I don't want to name the 'underrated'.

Why are they overrated?

I have no doubt that Bhupi Sherchan and Vairagi Kaila have been overrated and appreciated many times more than their actual creative abilities. He is both a poet Numerical & From both qualitative points of view, they do not deserve the praise they are getting now. There are certain reasons why they are overvalued and Both have different rights.

When talking about Bhupi Sherchan, she has gained popularity through light-hearted, satirical, simple poems that seem like jokes, so many readers consider her weak poems as dynamic poems. They may have considered it as a model. A lot of elements of popularity in a poem does not mean that it is a great poem.

Bhupi's generous personality and life-style defined by the love of friends may have given more importance to her poems. The title of one of Bhupi's poems is 'Yo Hallai Halako Desh Ho'. It is no exaggeration that he has been made a great poet recently.

Vairagi Kainla, on the other hand, has written poems using some unfamiliar images that were not used in Nepali poetry before, so it seems that the critics have considered and overvalued her. As one of the pillars of the 'Third Dimension' movement, Kaila must have gained more importance. The politics of identity that he has been doing in recent times has given more height to the stature of Kainla-poet. It is called

– the poet learns from the elder poet in the beginning. Which major poet influenced your early poetry?

I was initially influenced by Gopal Prasad Rimal and Vasu Shashi. Both those poets are still loved. However, after reading the poems of Mohan Koirala and his contemporaries Krishnabhakta Shrestha, Dwarika Shrestha, Madan Regmi, I became a fan of them. Especially Mohan Koirala has become my favorite poet.

You are considered a true critic of Nepali literature. What is the role of the critic between the writer and the reader?

A good reviewer can help the reader to select a good book, so the reviewer can become a guide for the reader.

What is the level of criticism in us? Is the review accurate or is it biased?

It will not be an exaggeration that criticism has died in Nepali literature. How to classify a dead genre as correct or biased?