{"id":814,"date":"2012-10-31T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sanghiya.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:19:55","slug":"a-day-of-defeat-bairagi-kainla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sanghiya.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Defeat (Bairagi Kainla)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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– Bairagi Kainla*<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We have merely heard of love like folk tales
\nsome of us have even read in short stories or novels
\nor have seen on those old tattered papers
\nglued to the small wooden planks in some grocery shops
\nthat display price list, on advertising calendars,
\nwith the picture of Laila-Majnu or the Tajmahal
\nbut in course of time woodlouse and moth come out of the cracks
\nof the plank and run on it
\nthey eat the pictures of love displayed on the advertising calendar<\/p>\n

It is just now while walking Mal road beyond Chaurasta
\nI saw, forcing my eyes to peep across the pine leaves, down below
\nhaving seen no one veiled in the clouds,
\nI was sitting distracted in the resting house
\nwith your memory in my heart, thinking of our youth age
\nand caressing the love I have for you
\nI carved a heart shape with a knife on the wooden plank
\nlove is as poets usually perceive, the luxury of some emperors
\nlike a day scarcity stricken and harrowed
\nalready defeated while struggling to survive our youth and age,
\na transient life, youth and stamina evanesce
\nwhere do you have time to love and to be loved
\nin exchange like a star falling from the sky like a storm and strong wind
\nthis whim appeared in the sky suddenly and disappeared nowhere
\nand melted away in the exhausted mind and the head staggering
\nwith the brilliant light of electricity
\nand on the plank that had been carved just now the shape of the heart
\nI closed my eyes and stabbed as its very heart
\nthe knife at my own heart
\nsince than, for many centuries running along
\nlike an ambition unfulfilled
\nI have been running away like a murderer
\nstabbing the knife at my own heart for many many centuries
\nrunning along the street of Hastinapur, Chitrakut, and the dark alleys of Muna
\nand the high ways of the Kantipur
\nyes for so many centuries i have been running away by stabbing a knife at my own heart
\nI am a destitute, a murderer
\nI am not satisfied so far I am tired and exhausted
\nI am looking for a way to emancipation
\nby breaking the dry tear drop open
\nby touching someone else’s feet for redemption.
\n(21 january 1962, Darjeeling)\u00a0<\/em>
\n( Translation of PARAJAYAKO EK DIN by Dr. Govinda Raj Bhattarai)<\/p>\n

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*Bairagi Kainla<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bairagi Kainla (b. 1940) is one of the greatest modern nepali poets. His powerful poetical works began since early 1960s while he was a young student in darjeeling. Kainla together with I. B. Rai and Ishwar ballabh formed a trio who came like a thunder with new literary trend and a powerful movement called Tesro Ayam ( The Third Dimension). This called for critics’ and creative artist attention to the faculty of mind. Obviously modernist poetry movement and the cubist art must have had influence over it. But this led people critics and creators to think over the art and content of creation. It called for intellectual attention. The Third Dimension has had a long influence in Nepali literature.
\nBairagi however did not write much, whatever he wrote he did most powerfully. He hails from limbu community of eastern Nepal. He used local myths and lores in his poetry. This led to a diversion in traditional writing and consequently a host of native yuoths have followed his style. Kaila’s poetry is the song of freedom, he is a great freedom fighter and participated actively in different movements. One can hear the deep undertone of love and revolt in his work. His poems of Bairagi Kainla contains some masterpieces in Nepali. As early as 1969 Bairangi Kainla together with Mohan Koirala and Bhoopi Serchan were recognised as powerful poets, though quite young, and their works included in modern nepali poems.<\/p>\n

-By Dr Govinda Raj Bhattarai<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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