Chandan Lomjel was very interested in playing football during his school days. While growing up, watching movies increased. He used to look forward to the names of the singers and music composers in the film and thought, 'One day my name should come like this.' He also tried to sing songs. However, after his friends said 'your voice is hidden', he started to devote himself to music.

His family was not so well with his interest in art. However, he would eventually learn to play the instrument. He was proficient in harmonium since childhood. He also learned to play the guitar. He turned out to be good at playing the mandolin. 

Chandan gradually became an integral part of the carnival band of Darjeeling. He devoted himself entirely to playing the instrument. In the beginning, he used to write songs himself and add music to them. Later, he started thinking, "We should not write it." A song written by a songwriter is a song. I also now have to add music to the song written by the songwriter.' 

Then he found Puran Giri while visiting the villages and towns of Darjeeling in search of a songwriter.

The sea hidden in the eyes today

It drifted on two shores again

I attached the sign of the ghost

Who-who broke it again

The hope of this heart was not broken again

Whom-whom was it waiting for

Even though there was a hole in fate

This heart was missing in memory

The sea hidden in the eyes Today...

Chandan has been a good friend with Daisy Bareilly so far was Puran composed the music for this song himself and gave Daisy the vocals. Daisy from Darjeeling, also popular in Nepal with the folk song 'Bhainsi Ladyo Hai Maya', used to learn music from musician Badri Durga Kharel from the tender age of 10. She has sung the songs of Jas Yonjan 'Pyasi', Bhairavanath Rimal 'Kadam', Narden Rumba and others. 

'Kadam' wrote this timeless song, the same duo of musicians and singers did the job of filling the melody and voice. Chandan's music and Baraili's voice also did justice to the evergreenness of this song, which carries the spiritual depth of lyricist 'Kadam'. 

I'm a beggar, I'm a wanderer in the jungle

But my abode is temporary, the temple is beautiful

There's nothing else but tears in my eyes

What's left, you can't understand without understanding

What's there to live in the essence of nothingness

I'm a beggar, I'm a wanderer in the jungle...

At that time, not only in Darjeeling, but also in Nepal, there was such a singer's popularity that was lacking until today Could not be fulfilled. It is surprising even today that Chandan is remembered as a Northern literary genius. Chandan, who is 'nostalgic' by remembering Norden, elaborates on an interesting incident, "Gorkhaland movement was raging, on 27th July, the streets were chaotic.

Protesters and police were fighting, tires were burning, stones were being thrown. The smoke was blowing. In this case, the then film director Jeevan Gurung came to meet Norden. I took her to Norden's office. The office was closed due to the protest, then he was found at home. After telling us to write a song, he took us to a roadside restaurant and asked us, on what 'theme' should we write the song?

Gurung replied that in this film I myself am the hero, my name is Prem. I love a girl very much but secretly. One day, the same girl comes looking for me and gives me a letter. That is the invitation letter. The girl is getting married to someone else. How would I feel about that?'

After hearing this, Norden said, 'Give me a pen and paper.' Sitting there, he composed the song within minutes. Outside 'Dhara 7' is burning, smoke is billowing but inside he is writing a romantic song. He is a person who can drown like that!' He adds, 'I still remember that song.'

Why did I fall

How did you light this

Why did you hide me

In a quiet place, in the 'study room' of the house, Bardli, Chaur or Chautari. Or again, anyone who can drown in the peace of the forest, but who can write in a loving mood even in the midst of riots, Chandan did not see another lyricist in his time except Norden. Perhaps it was because he could sink in that way that he could write songs very quickly. He could write a great song within a day at most. He also remembers that within a few minutes he wrote a song and gave it to Chandan.

It's a matter of one day, Chandan has reached Northen to write a song along with lyricist Puran. The words came to him so fluently that the pen could not keep up with the pace of his own mind. Then, he said to Puran who was sitting next to him, "Brother, I am going to say it, you should write it".

Tied and searched across ten rivers

Across the heart-wrenching Bhanjyang

Evening sinner towards Janghar

Deudeuta dances towards Sanghar...

 Chandan says, 'Motiram Bhatt is called Ashukavi. If Ashu is to be a songwriter, it can be none other than Norden.'' She says, 'I went to Norden around 8/9 in the morning to write a song. The song will be ready in a few days. But, that same day, before the sun was about to set, he wrote me a song.'

The mountain blossomed and the heart broke. 

hand couple in Deurali 

I put two flowers I

luck but,

how beautiful is Baimani Resham 

How much has flowed How much has flowed Water under the bridge silk

Passes in Asaias This is, short life silk

How much has flowed How much has flowed...

In this song of Northen, Sandalwood also filled the music. Chandan included this song of Norden in a cassette released by Carnival Band. It gave him a certain satisfaction to make music to Norden's songs. Says, 'Just as Swarasmarat Narayan Gopal was 'choosy' about lyrics, Norden was also choosy about music.

He also wanted to play the harmonium. Norden, who was interested in music, did not attempt to compose music. However, he had an idea for music. As the pen played with the words of the song, the picture of the melody came to his mind. While writing the song, he used to say, 'The tune of this song should be in this style.' Narayan Gopal voiced the words of Norden and the music given by Chandan has really given birth to a beautiful timeless song:

All my nights are mothers now

Life has become things that I don't understand  There is no place here to put the

itself 

.

All my nights now...

I always walk this road choosing what to do 

I walk among my relatives looking for an introduction  Forget the

, thousands of bains across the market 

I lose myself and walk looking for myself  I walk looking for

myself 

All my nights now... 

 Chandan is remembered, Norden was the first to sing this song in the talent search for 'Badal Darbarma Pahad Ko Mela'. However, there is one incident that keeps Sandalwood burning. He was playing the music on the last song written by Norden, who passed away at a young age. Norden, who had to drink a lot of alcohol, fell ill and was admitted to the hospital.

By the time Chandan gave the music to the song, Norden was close to death. Even though he reached the hospital out of breath, Chandan could not sing to him in that emotional atmosphere. This moment remains a bitter but unforgettable memory in his psyche to this day. He says, 'Even in the last song he wrote, there is something about death. But there is no horror in this song of death. However, it hits the heart of the listener.' 

The earth is not empty when I die

Don't cry you Kahali-Kahali

Don't cry seeing you meaning

When the conch sounds goodbye

Remember I fell

Alone now no peak

Remember I climbed

Your new life 

I remember going to read a book

In the night sky some 

Counting one of my stars

The earth will not be empty after I die

Search if you can

The hopes I have made

The empty glass is full

The thirst I have left behind

I will offer all the bottles

I will burn the pyre

The earth will not be empty after I die...

He tells that Norden wrote other songs about alcohol. However, he believes that Nepali music has suffered an irreparable loss as a unique talent died in a short period of time due to the habit of drinking alcohol. How many songs Norden gave him to compose. Which is still safe with him but he left without hearing the tune of that song.

Chandan, who actively started music career only in 1983, feels tired sometimes. What a short time to collaborate with Norden. Born in 1949, Norden retired from life before turning 50. Pawan Gole's voice, Vasant Chhetri's music and a song written by Norden for Norden, he feels sad : 

It would have happened even if I hadn't seen you

It would have happened even if those shy eyes hadn't touched me

Life is still dry

Life is still pale

It would have been if the color of that smile hadn't touched me

It would have happened to you... Even if I didn't hear your footsteps somewhere,

would have been a rough life!

Usay Bhi Fika Zindagi...

Daisy also gets emotional remembering the untimely death of Norden, who wrote the song for the Nepali film 'Banchn Keshen Haru'. He thinks that if Norden was alive, the golden age of Nepali song and music would have been pushed further. 

Musician Chandan and singer Daisy have come to Kathmandu from Darjeeling to introduce Norden to the new generation and make the old generation 'nostalgic' once again. This time they are among the audience of Nepali music along with their daughter Vimochana Lomjel, singing only Norden in the Nepali Nimto Plenti series.

While listening to Chandan and Daisy, I remembered an exciting song written by Norden himself, 'Where did the flower go, where did the whirlwind go!' Instead, in the film of the mind, the North came as a whirlwind from time to time and went away suddenly.