दुखकै आकाश, दुखकै धर्ती... दुखकै कसौडी, दुखकै सिरानी.... उपन्यासको प्रत्येक पन्नामा अकालको मृत्यु, वेदना, पीडा मात्र छापिएको छ जसरी कर्णाली जीवनको प्रत्येक पन्नामा दुख टासिएको छ ! माओवादी जनयुद्धले गरीब दुखी जनताको जीवनमाथि थोपरेको त्रास र उठिबास पनि उत्तिकै कारुणिक छ ! एकातिरबाट माओबादीको अत्याचार अर्का तिरबाट शाहीसेनाको शोषण ! पढाइमा मेधावी भूमिराजको कथाले मन छियाछिया बनायो ! उसलाई पढ्नु छ, कर्णालीको मुहार फेर्नु छ , आफ्नो प्रेम प्राप्ति गर्नु छ ! तर जनयुद्ध र गरिबीले उसको सपनाको नाङ्गो शरीरमाथि बुट जुत्ताले लात्ती हान्छ ! थिलोथिलो बनाउछ ! सर्वस्वहरण गर्छ ! स्वास अपहरण गर्छ !
First of all thanks to Suresh pranjali who introduced karnali to nepali readers. In economics there is a saying "Greater demand increases the value" .Readers love tragedy and writers are providing it.Tuin provides us the tragic scenario of Karnali region in maoist war period through the protagonists story Bhumiraj.If you have loved "Muglan" , you ll feel the story is somehow similar but in different geographical region, different era and circumstances.At least I felt that.I loved "Karnali Blues" because that was the first time I read about karnali and this story digs more about Karnali which is heart touching.
Synopsis Bhumiraj is a guy from a poor family whose elder brother is taken from a maoist for maoist war purposes and the family suffers from armies because of that from both side.He is a good guy who has a wish to make his village a prosperous place. his academics is good, however he looses his family one by one(his mom because of diorrhea,father while crossing karnali in a rope(we name it tuin), his sister when she was pregnant on the way to hospital ) and finally when maoist try to take him for the war also ,he runs away ,and his escape story starts. how it ends?....well for this read the book
what's good in it? he has pointed out every incident that happened in karnali during the war. and some happening now as well.The region is the most backward that all nepali know.but how much if you want to know this book is a mirror.thats how they live. thats how they fight for rice. the smoothness in the writing touched me the most .that was my first suresh pranchali's read and this book made me curious about ..OK..what else he has written.
What I did not like? I wont say its bad because people have different perspectives. I have heard news from there everyday but all this incidents ..can this happen in one single family?(I guess the probability is too less) may be two or three protagonists..I would have believed OK..that can happen. and the end That put me "OFF" a bit. we all know what happened in maoist war.but writers provide some books with optimism and solution( at least for me)
All in all , I wont say I dint like it, literary I liked it.It grabbed me because I finished it in a shot,went into my blood like a drugs and in some incidents I felt like not reading because i dint want that incident to happen.writer brought the sympathy to Bhumiraj through his writing. a great success. I wish him good luck with his upcoming books as well. Read Once, a nice book.
कान्छा, कर्नालीको मात्र नभएर नेपालको दुर्गम क्षेत्रका युवाहरूको दुखको भोगाईलाई चित्रण गर्ने एक पात्र। कर्नालीकै भाषा, कर्नालीकै दुख अझ थपिएको द्वन्द्वकालको शास्ती। कति सपना थिए कान्छाका, कान्छाका दामलका सँगीहरूको, तर सबै बिलिन भए शान्ति बिथोलेर क्रान्ति प्राप्तिको लडाइँमा। १० बर्षे जनयुद्ध सुरु भयो सामनतीहरू र गरिब बिचको भिन्नता जरैदेखि उखेलेर फाल्न तर सकियो धनिलाई झन धन थुपारिदिएर अनि गरिबको केहि नभएको झोला पनि खोसिदिएर। शक्ति हिन जनता दुवै तर्फबाट मिचिनु पर्यो: यता क्रान्तिकारीहरूले बन्दुक तेर्साएर एक घर एक योद्धा भन्दै आफ्नो बालक लगेर अलपत्र पारिदिने डर त्रास, उता सेनाले बटुवा समेतलाई समात्दै छापामार हो भन्ने कागजमा सहि गर्न लगाउने। कति भुमिराजहरू भुमिगत बने र कति बनाइए। अनि सँगै भुमिगत भए उनिहरुको आफु केहि बन्ने अनि केहि बनाउने सपना।
साहित्यिक गहन विचारहरु पानामा कोरिएको यो किताब नेपाली भाषा साहित्यको मेरो मनपर्ने किताब बन्यो। धेरै पछि नेपाली भाषामा लेखिएको पढ्दा किताबले रुवाए पनि सारै रमाइलो लाग्यो।
A must read for Nepali but it is not easy read at all. I have no idea why I expected the book to be different when I picked it.
The book is full of suffereing till the very end. I was deeply saddeneded and wanted some sort of positive end, just to come out of my own sadness, which isn't offered in the book.
But what right do I have to put such a hope in a book when I know that was the reality? Story of a boy in Karnali in midst of inhuman civil war, what else can I expect?
Why shouldn't I suffer while reading the story when thousands actually had to live that life?
गत वर्ष तीन महिना जुम्ला बसेर आएको अनुभवले यो किताब पढ्न सजिलो बनायो। यो किताबको सबै भन्दा उत्कृष्ट पक्ष भनेको यो लेख्न गरिएको गृहकार्य जस्तो लाग्यो। कथा धेरै नाटकीय नभई बढी यथार्थपरक छ। कतै कतै केही खोट भएपनि धेरै कुरालाई एकदम यथार्थपरक ढंगले प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ। आफूले जुम्लामा द्वन्द्वकालको नभएपनि अझै मानव विकाशकै सिलसिलामा रहेका भूमिराज हरु देखेर, चिनेर आएको भएर नि होला, कथाको पात्र ले imagine गर्न सजिलो भएको, जसले किताबलाई सधैं रोमाञ्चक बनाई राख्यो।
कर्णाली, प्राकृतिक बिपत, भ्रस्टाचार र जनयुद्ध को परिबेश झन् भयानक रहेछ भन्ने भान गरायो यो किताबले। प्रस्तुति राम्रो लाग्यो।धेरै नै इमोशन रहिछ। कतै कतै पढ्नै गार्हो भयो । सामान्य मानिस हरु ले कस्तो कस्तो पिडा भोग्नु परेको छ बाच्न को लागि हाम्रो समाज मा भन्ने भान गराइदियो। यत्रो बिधि दुख एउटै घर मा पर्छ र भन्ने लाग्यो मलाई। मुख्य पात्र ले पढन को लागि गरेको संघर्स ले धेरै नै छोयो।
उत्कृष्ट । प्रत्येक ४ पेजमा अाँखाका डिल भरिन्छन् । दुखैदुखका बीच फूलेकाे प्रेम, संघर्ष र राज्यले न्याय दिन नसकेकाे कर्णालीलाई लेखकले भरपूर न्याय दिएर लेखेका छन् । मनमष्तिष्क हल्लाउने स्तरकाे पुस्तक छ ।
कर्णाली तिर बोलिने खस भाषा बुझ्न मलाई हम्मे हम्मे भयो। पछाडि १५-२० शब्द का अर्थ नदिएको हैन, तर ती सब अपर्याप्त थिए। जनयुद्ध कालको परिवेशमा गरिने संघर्ष र हुर्किदै गरेको प्रेम, व्याप्त अन्धविश्वास, माओवादी र सेना हरुले दिने दुःख यो उपन्यासको मुख्य विषय हो।
म पुर्बको ठिटोले पश्चिम कर्णाली क्या कथा पड्नु पाम्दा धेरै खुशी भया छउ, जनयुद्धका समयमा हामी सोझा सबैले माअोबादी, खाअोबादी, सेनाबादी, पुलिसबादीबाट दुख खप्नु खप्यानै छियौ ।
This book revolves around a Jumli boy who faces a constant test of hardship in his life due to the undeveloped topology as well as the ongoing military revolution. I somewhere felt like the writer had described the sorrows too much and overused the metaphor of tears and hearts in some parts but I should also say that it is what carries the story forward. Although I pictured myself as a 14/15 year old high school student of a certainly favored area than the narrator so the question raised by him justifies his thoughts and dreams. It would have been great if the writer had depicted the landscape properly or more vividly so that we could have had the real sense of Jumla. Although containing handful of tragic situations it is a light read which can be finished in a couple of sittings.
It is a wonderful book of a teenager who wants to study and make his future bright but circumstances make him leave his home and travel to somewhere without destination. I think its a book of romance, war and interest. It is a book which shows the real lifestyle of Nepali. A great and addicting book indeed!!!!
Description of the Karnali lifestyle and the problems people face touches heart. The local language parts gets difficult to read. All in all, good read.
भूमिराजको कथाले सारै मन कुडियो ...द्वन्द्वको बेला कतिले यस्तो पिडा भोग्न पर्यो होला...एउटा भूमिराजको कथा भित्र धेरै कथाहरु रहेछन ...आखा रसाउने कथाहरुले भरिएको रहेछ तुइन...