| ashu |
Posted
on 25-May-01 01:55 AM
What follows is from Ajit Baral at Martin Chautari.
As discussed in earlier threads, Shankar Lamichane,
who died 25 years ago, was a famous Nepali essayist/writer
who was accused of being a plagiarist at the end
of his life.
The charges first surfaced in Roop Rekha magazine,
and were thrown by someone named Kumudini.
oohi
ashu
>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:00:00 +0530
> Reply-to: kitab@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [kitab] On Shankar Lamichane's chori
>
> I read Kumudini's famous letter. Sankar Lamichane's
> confession and two essays that Lamichane (seems to
> have) has plagiarized. The tone of Kumindin's
> accusation is so assured that anyone who have read
> the letter would feel that [SL] might have
> plagiarized. ( Even I, who wished to put on hold the
> judgement about Shankar Lamichane's chori till the
> extent of plagiarism was fully known, felt that
> way.)
>
> The two essays Lamichane Plagiarized are on art and
> art movement. The kind of thought about art, art
> perception and avant garde, and the kind of
> scientific thrust that has been put into the
> writings are such that it is very unlikely that any
> Nepali would have written them. If they were really
> written by a Nepali, I will say, Nepali art wouldn't
> have been what it is today. And, I think, these are
> the kind of writings that only the one with art/art
> criticism as his first vocation could have written.
>
> Moreover, Shankar Lamichane's has accepted
> plagiarism in no unambiguous term.
>
> No doubt Shankar did the choris. But I wonder why
> Kumudini, whoever he/she may be, need to hide
> his/her identity. After all Shankar himself had
> written that Nepali Sahitya needs a sajag and
> jaguruk pathak like Kumudini.
>
>
> The identity of Kumudini hasn't surfaced. So, I
> would like to raise a question (though highly
> improbable), Can Shankar himself be Kumidini?
> Smitten by the conscience, he may have tried to make
> amends for the choris he did by first accusing
> himself and then admitting the chori. Who knows.
>
> Shankar episode can be grist for a fiction. Any
> takers?
>
> Ajit
>
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