| Biswo |
Posted
on 14-Dec-00 11:35 AM
Until highschool, jounalists were not among the most admired
people I had in my mind.Padam Thakurathi ,who used to run
Bimarsha then, was shot by a feared gunda, and we all read the
famous headline of Bimarsha " Yeuta Goli Mero Breakfast ho" (one
shot is my breakfast..),and tried to figure out why and who
shot the journalist.Then Keshav Pidali went to jail for publishing
Rup Chandra Bista's poems.We knew of these things,we were avid
reader of Bimarsha and we were grown up in simmering political
world of Chitwan, still we never found any journalist as our
ideal!!
One of the reasons was the grammatically incorrect writing in those
newspapers that I could easily detect.Rhashwa, Deergha, sentence
imcompletion etc used to be so rampant in every paper.The writing
standard was often very low, and weeklies were more prone to
writing sloganist report than any acadamic article.We were grown
up hearing those slogans,so reading those articles will be only
superfluous!
Some of our political leaders often inscribe grammatically impeccable
and verbally 'standard' articles. BPKoirala was so good in
Sanskrit,Nepali,Hindi and English that reading his novels or story
still inspires enthusiasm in me.Communist leaders are also full
of language skill.They use such recherche Sanskrit between their
revolutionary report that it takes more than normal time to understand their article.I think ,when I read Prachanda's article
in Kantipur even now,most of the people in Nepal probably can't
understand his articles.Leaders are unlike writers,because writers
can live in a small world of their targeted audience.Leaders need
to stretch their arm to every of hoi polloi.
Having said this,I want to point out the insurgent trend in
Nepali journals for grammatically correct and verbally standard
articles.In Suruchi, Shiva Adhikari used to write very good
article.(I don't know the current status of Suruchi though.)
Currently,Deshantar,Himal and Kantipur are on the front of good
writing.Suresh Acharya, Dixits, Guna Raj Luitel(I liked his
recent article on Bamdev Gautam very much),Hem Raj Gyawali etc
are vanguards in this front,I believe!The editorial in Kantipur
is always flawless,and extremely recommendable.I don't know if
Yuv Raj Ghimire writes it or somebody else.
Since I have met several journalists who used some businessmen's
money to run the newspaper,and wrote only those articles that
his financer liked,and stopped publishing whenever the businessmen
wanted him to close,I think I still need some time to respect
journalists as a whole.But ,as I can guess ,there is clearly
a new trend in journalism of Nepal.Our scribes are more cautious
for their right,knowledgeable about their power, and can correctly
use their scimitar whenever need arise!
(This article is not a research article.Just ,what is probably,a
stream-of-conscience!)
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