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Mohan Bdr. Kayastha
Bishnu Bdr. Singh
Dr. Arun Sayami
Yograj Gautam
BishwoBimohan Shrestha
Radheshyam Lekali
Dr. Hari Prasad
Dr. Badri Pokhrel
Dwarika Shrestha
Alas ! my chest,
when has become a sand-bank !
I walk sometime aloof
upon this bedecked faithlessness
To watch
How far is the tide of morrow ! - Dwarika Shrestha
A man of prose thus walks on the sand bank of faithlessness devoid a transfused existence so as to watch the waves and tide of tomorrow speaks low but in a higher dignity:
life is an experiment. In the everchanging motion of existence, life seems a hide and seek game of nature reflected upon a shadowy metaphor.Dwarika Shrestha is an ace part of Iliotean Calibre who established an experimental poetry writing in Nepal.
A strong signature itself in the genre of poetry, Dwarika Shrestha writes poem for his own self attainment. He loves to write in his poem revolt and anarchy. Writing, as he opines, is the way is recognize one's own being and the effort to divert the journey towards the inner source. Dwarika Shrestha was born on Bhadra of 1992 BS to father Ramesh Lal Sherestha and mother Buddhi Laxmi Shrestha in a beautiful hilly village of Bandipur. As luck would have it, at the early tender age of four or five his father and mother passed away in the interval of a year leaving the infant in this bizarre world. He has a vague picture of his parents in his mind. He received his primary education in village school of bandipur. He was a brilliant student who received the further education in Kathmandu. Enrolling in the Schools like Juddhodaya Public High School and Durbar High School, he passed his SLC in 2011 BS from the later. He received his Diploma degree from Trichandra College. In 2017 BS. He did his MA degree in English.
His early aim was to be a teacher but life had something store for him. He is a successful businessman. His earlier dreams to live a life without any edit and delete wandering in valleys and mountains as being a teacher seems a utopia nowadays. Surpassing many roads and curves he has come where he is now as a businessman. He often says:
Perhaps, my mystery of existence is to life here 'on the spot.'But he is not quite satisfied with this. Life because comfortable but he has 'many things to do' as he says.
Poetry is his first and last love. Poetry moves his heart and mind. And the readers unquestionably are moved by his poetry. He has a great likings of abstract art. He dies to listen to Mozart, Beethovan and Classical music. Among Nepali painters he admires teh paintings of Kiran Manandhar whose paintings are blended with rich colour combination. His favorite painters beyond this horizon are Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrant, Picasso, Salvadore Dali, Michaellangelo, M.F. Hussain etc.
Dwarika Shrestha doesn't believe in the Re-birth and the life beyond. Life is here and now. Yes, life is now here, not no-where. This very life is the first and the last. He doesn't concern over the rituals of vice and virtue that are traditionally entertained by the society. He takes the present the most important. But sometimes he wonders over his nostalgic seasons and celebrates the loss, pain, joys which existence provides. The intellectual poet, (very often misunderstood by his own literary colleagues) Dwarika Shrestha thus, feels proud of his existence. And why not ?
He married in the year 2028 BS with Kathmanduite-lady Jaleshwori Shrestha. He is now a proud father of three daughters Niva, Nitya and Nishtha.
Poet Dwarika Shrestha often witnesses the contradiction between his early love-life and married life but he assumes married life down to earth, far from those nostalgic dreams. Sufferings of love are slowly erased by the time which were once sketched on the black-slate. Those love-summons and calls of ancient forests are not echoed anymore because the matrimonial life had erased all those past invitation. Yet, the beautiful memories always be shadows our human endeavour.
Nevertheless, the soulmate of the poet Dwarika Shrestha, Jaleshwori Shrestha too has marked her strong signature in Nepali Literature in the arena of story writing through her strong voice of feminine fiction.
Let's go for Dwarika's creations-
Sheetko Thopa (Dewdrops...): Anthology of poems: 2016 BS
Dwarika Shrestha Kavita (Verses of Dwarika Shrestha): Anthology of poems: 2034 BS
Just two anthology of verses !
Yes, and why ?
Because he lived a life of prose in the corporate world. His unwritten verses became his antique past.
Everything is abstract these days. Like three abstract of pre-modern poetry of Dwarika long ago, which are the reference for this post-modern era, whose lines are largely quoted-
When asked about the existence, he would simply interrogate you:
What else is there to think of existence while life itself has become the question-Further he would say:
-"I am an archeological artist, poet who is standing on his own grave-yard. I'm like a rose and rose and rose. There's not any immortal satisfaction et all. Living a life of a mere waste is but also a celebration. A joy to live, indeed in a different tone and rhythm and notation...! And why ?
Because
Solitary wandering is an unfulfilled dream which are sweet even if they are untrue."
Death, for the poet Dwarika Shrestha, is the final truth which follows us every moment but he will to spend his life in literary creations which should expose the beauty of living, here and now.
Nepali Kala Sahitya Dot Com is proud of the poet Dwarika Shrestha on receiving him as a Patron of the organization.
Alas ! my chest,
