Siddhicharan shrestha biography of donald

  • Siddhi Charan Shrestha [1912-92],the son of prosperous newar land owner was another member of the generation of poet that laid the foundations of the twentieth.
  • Through his writings in Nepal Bhasa and Nepali, Siddhicharan Shrestha contributed to the struggle against the autocratic Rana regime.
  • The context was the 107th birth celebration of poet Siddhicharan Shrestha (1912-1992), and the venue was a wing of Bahadur Bhawan, a palace made in Asian.

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    Photographs of Kathmandu in the 1930s show a mass of brick-and-mortar hovels punctuated by opulent Rana palaces with aspirations to Versailles. Ordinary Nepalis who appear in these photographs look pre-political to us now, resigned to their poverty (or we attribute to them inscrutable fatalistic minds). Yet they were by no means living in simple times. When Juddha Sumshere Jang Bahadur Rana became maharaja in 1932, anti-Rana sentiment was gaining ground in Kathmandu. Shukra Raj Joshi had met Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose in India, and had formed the Nepali Nagarik Adhikar Samiti, a group demanding citizens' rights. Another group, Ajambari Mat, had been founded by Newar intellectuals opposing the Bahun caste's supremacy, and demanding social justice. Teachers at the Mahavir School in Khilha Tole were preparing an independent syllabus aimed at sparking political consciousness in students, and the school was becoming a gathering place of budding revolutionaries. A smattering of free thinkers were organising underground libraries and discussion centres. All this was before political parties began to form in the 1940s.

    Some of Nepal's leading poets and writers of the 1930s and 1940s were among those directly leading anti-Rana dissent. Kedar Man Vyathit was active in the Nepal

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    Siddhicharan Shrestha, one of Nepal’s preeminent poet’s 107th birth anniversary was marked amid a function held at the Office of the Vice President in Kathmandu on Wednesday. Cultural expert and poet, Tulasi Diwas and journalist, Ganesh Kumar Rai, were awarded with the Yugkavi Siddhicharan Puraskar-2075 and Yugkavi Siddhicharan Yuva Rastriya Patrakarita Puraskar-2075, respectively. The event was organised by  the Yugkavi Siddhicharan Pratisthan.

    The felicitation programme is part of a three-day long event set up as tribute to the venerated poet. The event was inaugurated with a commemoration ceremony held at Siddhicharan Chowk in Dharmapath,  on Tuesday.  Today, a poetry seminar featuring poets writing in various languages will be held at the Library hall of Nepal Academy, according to Fanindra Raj Niraula, co-secretary of the Academy.

    Shrestha’s most famous poem, Mero Pyaro Okhaldhunga, is noted for his simple naturalistic verses and for his contributions through his poetry and journalism to the struggle against an autocratic Rana regime (1846-1951), for which he was sentenced to 18 years in jail. According to scholar and literary critic Abhi Subedi, “Poetics of spatiality is one of Siddhicharan Shrestha’s major accomplishmen

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