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| ashu |
Posted
on 05-Jan-01 09:42 PM
The newly-started "Martin Chautari shahitya
initiative" ko SECOND discussion is on Darjeeling
ko writer Indra Bahadur Rai's novel "Aja Ramita
Cha". The discussion take place this coming
Tuesday.
Rai, who together with Iswor Bhallav and Bairagi
Kainla, started the controversial "Tesro Aayam (third
dimension)" movement in
Nepali literature is a recent Madan Puraskar winning
writer.
I just finished reading Aja Ramita Cha, and found it
to be an incredibly boring novel. I thought that
the plot was all scattered, characters were poorly
developed, and the story is not all that compelling.
I struggled to finish the novel.
It is possible, and I strongly suspect this
is the case, that I do not know how to
read and interpret an Aaayameli novel.
If anyone out there could offer guidance on how
to interpret and enjoy this difficult novel,
that would be great.
oohi
ashu
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| SJP |
Posted
on 06-Jan-01 09:36 AM
Dear Ashu Ji,
I haven't read "Aja Ramita Cha" novel but I think I have read
almost every other novels written by Indra Bahadur Rai. I think
he is a Genious. Many people in Kathmandu may not know much about
him because he is from Drajeeling, but I think he is the best
nepali novelist ever. I think we can put him in the same category
of other nepali novelist like Daimon Samsher Rana. I was really impressed by a short story,titled "Maacha ko Mool (A Fish's Price )written by him when I was on 7th grade in Nepal. Later when
I was on 8th grade, that book was made mandatory curriculam of our
high school to improve our nepali. I can't wait to read his new novel "Aja Ramita Cha".
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| ashu |
Posted
on 06-Jan-01 10:24 AM
Dear SJP-ji,
Many thanks for your words.
Since Indra Bahadur Rai is such a famous
and influential novelist that my reading of
his novel "Aja Ramita Cha" must not be a
complete one.
To be sure, my own ignorance of and
about the Aayameli writing must have
diminished the extent of my enjoyment
of reading this -- to me anyway --
difficult, challenging novel. Frankly,
at times, with multiple characters
and multiple seemingly disjointed
events, I had a hard time following
just what was going on.
I am reading the book again, to see
whether I'd understand it better the
second time around.
Meantime, if you or someone else could shed
some light on the Aayemeli writing of IB Rai,
that would be great.
Thanks,
oohi
ashu
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