नेपाली बालसाहित्यका चौध कृति मराठी भाषामा प्रकाशित हुने

प्रेस विज्ञप्ती/ मिति: २०७० जेठ १७ गते – नेपाली बालसाहित्यको प्रवर्धनका लागि समर्पित बालसाहित्य प्रतिष्ठान नेपाल र केटाकेटी मिडियाको सक्रियतामा नेपालका विभिन्न बालसाहित्य लेखकहरुको कृति मराठी भाषामा प्रकाशित हुने भएको छ । छिमेकी देश भारतको पुनेमा रहेको स्पर्श प्रकाशनले प्रकाशन गर्न लागेको बालकृतिहरुमा लेखक कार्तिकेयको ६ वटा कृतिहरु रहेको छ । जस अन्तर्गत् पिरिरीको देश, परीगाउँको कथा, तरबारको जादु, फर्सीबहादुरको कथा र इन्र्टेस्टिङ स्टोरिज फर चिल्ड्र्ेन गरी ५ वटा कथाका किताबहरु र अचम्मको देश बालउपन्यास रहेका छन् । यी मध्ये ५ सचित्र बालकथा र १ उपन्यास विधाका कृतिहरु हुन् । सबै कृतिमा गरी कार्तिकेयका ४१ वटा कथा मराठीमा अनुदित भई प्रकाशित हुने भएको भएको छ । त्यस्तै अन्य कृतिहरुमा महेश पौड्यालको किशोर उपन्यास लिटिल लभर्स, रामदेव पाण्डेको सचित्र बालकथा ममताकी खानी, विष्णुकुमार पौडेलको सचित्र बालकथा हात्तीको फुर्ती, भगवती पौडेलको बालकथा मरेको बालक घर आयो, शिवप्रसाद उपाध्यायको भ्यागुताको हाइकिङ, जलेश्वरी श्रेष्ठको बालकथा संग्रह पिंकी र पुतलीहरु, लक्ष्मी उप्रेतीको बालकथा कमिलाको कथा र २० जना अन्य लेखकहरुको एकएकवटा कथा समावेश भएको नेपाली लेखकका बालकथाहरु नामक कथा संग्रह गरी चौधवटा बालकृति मराठीमा प्रकाशित हुन लागेको छ । प्रकाशोन्मुख संयुक्त कथा संग्रहमा गीताकेशरी, रन्जुश्री पराजुली, इन्द्रप्रसाद अधिकारी, ललिता दोषी, उन्नती बोहरा शीला, जलेश्वरी श्रेष्ठ, सुशीला देउजा, वसुश्री पाण्डे, स्नेह पोखरेल, रमा अधिकारी, सुभद्रा गौतम, कोमल पोखरेल, गंगा पौडेल, इल्या भट्टराईलगायत २५ जना लेखकहरु रहेका छन् । मराठीमा प्रकाशन हुन लागेका यी कृतिहरुको अनुवाद र सम्पादन मदन हजेरी, मिना हजेरी र अक्षता अनिकेत जोशीले गर्नुभएको छ । Marathi Edition Book Cover of Piriri's Country, Picture Story Book

दृष्टिविहिन बालिकाको गीति एल्बम तयार हुँदै

(Blind Child Talent Sarita Adhikari) कार्तिकेय बालप्रतिभा पुरस्कार कोषको दशौं वार्षिकोत्सवका अवसरमा विशेष प्रतिभाको रुपमा पुरस्कृत बालप्रतिभा दृष्टिविहिन गायिका सरिता अधिकारीको बालगीति एल्बमका गीतहरु धमाधम रेकर्ड भई तयार हुँदै गरेको खबर प्राप्त भएको छ । यस एल्बममा अमेरिकामै बसोबास गरिरहनुभएका लेखकहरु अन्तर्राराष्ट्रिय नेपाली साहित्य समाजका अध्यक्ष गीता खत्री, साहित्यकार नीलम कार्की नीहारिका र विनोद रोकाका गीतहरु रहेका छन् । त्यस्तै प्रथम दृष्टिविहिन सरकारी महिला अधिकृत नीरा अधिकारी सहित भगवती पौडेल, महेश पौडेल, कार्तिकेय, झमक घिमिरेलगायत १० जना लेखकका गीतहरु एल्बममा समावेश हुने केटाकेटी मिडियाले जानकारी गराएको छ । (First Blind Lady Government Officer Ms. Nira Adhikari)

Kartikeya

With an experience of more than two decades in children's writing, Kartikeya has mastered with sophistication all the fine nuances of children's literature. Besides writing, he has travelled to various nooks and crannies of Nepal, told stories to children, taught and tutored them in writing and expressing themselves, and raised voice for their rights. His writings are compulsory parts of many libraries across the country. He is also founder of Kartikeya Child Talent Award Trust that finds and awards talented but underprivileged children every year. Children's Literature Foundation Nepal, an organization working in the field of children's literature and rights, is his brainchild.

Ketaketi Media

Ketaketi Media is an organization committed to the promotion of children’s literature through publications that encourage creative development and education of children. It has been formed, conglomerating various other organizations like Children’s Journalism and Children’s Literature Award Organization that comprises of eleven participating schools, Jamarko Youth Group, Ketaketi Online, and Ketaketi Nepal. These organizations, before merging into Ketaketi Media, were in operation since 1998. The Media publishes for children, trains children and adult authors to write children’s literature, organizes awareness programs to encourage reading, donates freely to libraries, and coordinates all types of media—print, online, broadcasting and telecasting—to work for the promotion of children’s literature. It organizes workshops, seminars, and writing and storytelling programs in variation remote locations in Nepal, ensuring the collective participations of children, parents, teachers, social workers, media personnel, writers, child right activists and various other stake-holders. It is of the belief that educated and avidly reading children of today will shape a beautiful and peaceful world tomorrow, and so, it is striving to shape the minds and visions of today’s children for the future. We invite organizations with similar interest—both from home and abroad—to be with us for a common goal. Contact us at: kaghire@yahool.com, mahesh.kathmandu@gmail.com Web: www.ketaketi4nepal.blogspot.com

Psychology of Young Lovers - By Hari Paudel

Mahesh Paudyal’s latest novel Little Lovers presents the tragic end of innocent lovers Bikawa and Malshree.It flashes back how Lakhum got married and how his life continued. Lakhum and his family were living happily. The Majhis on Dolalghat were living happily working hard all the day. They do have small huts for shelter and they don’t need more than that. But the bitter part of their life was going to begin. The motor boats started there with irritating sound and massive smoke to compete with the poor little wooden boats. It brought a problem of sustenance to those Majhis, because their bread and butter was connected and only possible by boating which was being snatched from them. Lakhum hadgot married to Dukhini and gave birth to Bikawa. As all of other Majhis Lakhum’s family too sufered from the same problem brought out by these motor boats. When Bikawa was of three -to escape from the problems of Majhis- Lakhum decides to leave Dolalghat and shift to Sera of Nuwakot. Firstly, Lakhum goes to Nuwakot and with the help of Tilke Majhi he manages the place to stay for his family which is recently moving there. After few days his family starts to live there.This is the place where novelist indroduce a event which brings the psychological tension in the novel. In this place Tilke offers the engagement of his one year old daughter Malshree and Lakhum’s three years old son Bikawa. Facing hardship in settlement and to make Tilke happy Lakum agreed the proposal without thinking the future impact of that ‘treety’. As they became younger Malshree and Bikawa became best friends. Without knowing the meaning of marriage they acted the role of would be wife and would be husband. As the days were passing Bikawa’s parents invisioned the future disaster as Tadi was approaching their shelter. They shifted to Dhunge where it seemed more secure. Although Bikawa used to bear many difficulties he didnot stop meeting his would be wife. These small creatures started to talk whole days on the topic of marriage. They started to collect the materials needed in marriage and in this process Bikawa has suffered alot. At last this deep rooted psychology of marriage led them to the tragic end of innocent child lovers. This novel should be taken as an appeal of ‘Bikawas’and ‘Malshrees’ to not play on their psychology. How a seemingly simple agreement between Tilke and Lakhum brought the disastrous end. Actually in this novel two lovers are departed but we cannot underestimate the future problems on these two beings. From the children’s perspective we can’t accept Lakhum and Tilke as the honest fathers. Although Lakhum had done various attempts to make his son happy he slips to reject the propose which really ruined the future of an innocent child. This novel presents the realistic presentation of society which thinks children as insignificant matters in decision making level. ‘Bikawa was not allowed to go sera anymore,and the children didnot meet again.’ line suggests the prolonging tension on those children. I am not telling that children of these age should not be seperated but my arguement is that the psychology of child should be understood and things shouldnot be imposed carelessly. I think to bring the novel in this tragic and tensed mood education is one of the dominant factor. If these chidren were provided with education they would not get sufficient time for these useless activities. If the society was educated they would not allow such activities and obviously they would not tease or make laugh of those kids. Paudyal’s novel also is a critique on industrialzation. It presents the clear image of Majhis who are really about to displace from their homeland. To stay in the country or the place where they born is their right but they are cheated by the modern form of industrialization. They have to compete with the monstrous machines with their handmade objects. This sort of problem is becoming the real problem of developing countries. The main root of all the problems in Lakhum’s family is the launch of those machines which reject the problems of poors.This novel really does have other stuffs for elders too. The writer also opposes the current money-minded tradition of town people which he criticize explicitely.He compares the village fresh fruits and vegetables with town’s rotten ones. He praises village people as helpful and working collectively. His portroyal of Kumar as changed character from villain to a helping one has many things to do with writer’s affection to villiage life. Tilke and Lakhum’s far relative at Dhunge helped him which made his life easier. The writer’s comment ‘money was slowly eating the minds of town people’ suggest he really hates the town men who are running after money. To conclude we can say that this novel is a strong message for those communities which think children’s future not seriously. It is obviously true that such type of psychological parting really hurt children all over the life so their parents and society as a whole shuldn’t play on it.(sir I thought I could write aloton it but when i started it became a melting pot not even a bowl of salad. I even could not dictate my grammatical errors too.)

Ganesh is in the real Ganesh Voyage _ Nabaraj Lamsal,Radio Nepal/BBC Nepali Service

Ganesh is in the real Ganesh Voyage—the grand, divine trip—not by encircling the mountains, but by kissing the essence of hard work. He

is young in terms of age, energy and consciousness, but is quite matured in action. He holds children’s fingers, extends hands to support to the young, and folds his hands to the senior ones, albeit on ration grounds. My observations of his activities as a high school student at Nilakantha Campus, as youth going abroad for higher studies, or as a participant in various literature activities in various parts of the nation have brought me the reason that he is a powerful youth of my pick. He is at times startled by the water that flows down Arun and Thopal in Dhading, by prosperous modern conscience, by youths living in servitude even in the 21st century, and by tutelage plaguing the mind of the pioneers of change, but soon he consoles himself. The collectivity he seeks in his personal journey and his pursuit of novelty in awakening of such consolation, and ideas, actions and styles are his specialties. The same specialties are evident both in his writing, and in action. This is what characterizes Ganesh. For the life ahead, he has many rivers to cross. Literature and life are neither a hundred meter marathon race, nor a mountaineering with some adjectives to celebrate the ascent. It suffices for man to win a marathon or a mountain for once, but life puts man to test in every turn, and waits for repeated tests. This book is a claim that Ganesh is waiting to face such examinations with a higher order consciousness. I wish him a great journey ahead. Live long, and bring home the glory of victory. EMAIL: mrsukhadukha@gmail.com

Author’s Say - Mahesh Paudyal

The story of this novelette is completely fictional, though it draws facts from the

Majhis’ real life. I have made a small attempt to lift the Majhi community’s plight—both economically forced and socially inherited—into the discourse of the mainstream children’s literature, so that children and young adults from both Majhi and non-Majhi communities see how negative culturing, though apparently trivial and at times pleasing, can lead to fatal tragedies. The real readers I have in mind are young adults, who have preferably crossed the water mark of the middle school, and are in a position to convince themselves that certain belief in our society needs a critiquing, because it has many provisions for unproductive culturing of children’s mind. I will be happy if Little Lovers is received as a social novelette against child marriage. Though the narrative itself doesn’t critique the practice overtly anywhere, the events unfold in such a way that the finale becomes evidently tragic. The fuel of the tragedy comes from Tilke and Lakhum, two Majhi men, who decide that their daughter and son respectively, when they come of age, shall marry one another. The children, Malashree and Bikawa, somehow come to know this, and in their fanciful pastime, try to enact adults’ matrimony. For this they undertake a number of life-risking games, which ultimately bring misfortune to them. I thank friends Rama Adhikari and Nitya Pandey for critically editing the language and giving suggestions for improvement at several points. I thank Chandrasekhar Paudyal, who made beautiful illustrations for the story. My friend and writer Kartikeya Ghimire deserves thanks for taking the pain to launch the book in its present form. I thank Innovative Nepal—Surendar G.C. of Dang in particular—for taking the responsibility to promote and distribute this book. I thank Bikram Sapkota, who took me to his home in Nuwakot for the first time, wherefrom I could imagine Sera, the setting for my novel. I am also indebted to Akash Subedi in the US, who agreed to be the first reader of my manuscript, representing my target audience. Suggestions to improve shall help me to perk up. (courtsy: 'Little Lovers' novelette page c n d)

Jaleshwori Shrestha is a renowned storywriter and novelist

About the Author Jaleshwori Shrestha is a renowned storywriter and novelist. Mihineti Gauri and

Sunpari are her novels for children, Shantako Ichchha is a collection of long stories and Pariko Ghar and Tisako Janmadin are her collections of stories for children, from which, this collection derives most of its stories. For adults, she has published two story-collections Lavaka Baaph and Maun Bidroha, and a novel titled Niyati Chakra. She is also a social worker prodigally donating to trusts that award the best of writers in different fields and genres. Some of the awards she has established are ‘Goma Memorial Award’ through Women Literature’s Foundation, ‘Devkumari Thapa Children’s Literature Banita Award,’ ‘Gunjan Talent Award,’ ‘Bandipur Children’s Literature Award,’ ‘Govinda Bahadur Malla Gothale Young Adults’ Literature Manuscript Award’ etc. With royalties for her writings, she has also established ‘Jaleshwori Children’s Talent Award’ at the initiative of her daughter Nibha Shrestha. About this Book Pinki and the Butterflies collects fifteen of the best stories by its author. Each of the stories has at least a child as its protagonist, and the plot unfolds to assert a serious concern about the child’s rights, social cognition, the talent he or she promises and the treatment needed in the adults’ company. A wonderful sense of optimism pervades her stories, and she sees in children dreams that can change the world into a better places. She airs outright disagreement with discriminatory and traditional ways of thinking. For her, genders are equal, handicap is not a crime but an opportunity to unfold other talents, vice is bad, pampering punishes and hard work and dedication always pay. Most of the stories moralize, and the messages are pertinent to both children and adult. The Editor’s Say Pinki and the Butterflies enters the mainstream Nepalese Children’s Literature with a overt announcement: the world needs to read us and our children! In fact, the choice to publish this work into English is an anticipation of global audience. Considered this way, the collection holds the responsibility to present to the world the best of works the author has accomplished in her long writing career, especially for children. I consider most of the stories in this collection thrilling, though some have the inherent flaw of being too overtly moralistic and didactic. I am hopeful that the success of this collection shall inspire the author to look for alternative models of presentation. The author’s attempt to localize the stories in certain, real-life setting is a quality that pervades over all these stories. The stories take readers to locations that can, in reality, unfold before eyes, and the plot becomes easily conceivable. She has been extremely careful in crafting her language, marked by easy vocabulary and wonderful imageries. The best part of her writing, perhaps, is her characterization. All characters appear life-like, and easily identifiable. These stories should be, in my opinion, read for the messages they air. The author has in her mind a world free of violence, caprice and discrimination. In children, she envisions great seers, patriots, social workers and winners. All we need to do is prepare rooms and environment for such exponents to develop. Mahesh Paudyal, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur mahesh.kathmandu@gmail.com