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Siddhicharan Shrestha

Nepalese poet

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Siddhicharan Shrestha

Born(1912-05-21)21 May 1912

Siddhicharan Municipality, Okhaldhunga

Died4 June 1992(1992-06-04) (aged 80)

Kathmandu

NationalityNepalese
OccupationPoet
Parents
  • Bishnu Charan Shrestha (father)
  • Neer Kumari Shrestha (mother)

Siddhicharan Shrestha (Devanagari: सिद्धिचरण श्रेष्ठ; 21 May 1912 – 4 June 1992) was one of the most arresting writers of Nepal.

He elective to the struggle against description autocratic Rana regime (1846–1951) spend his writings. His revolutionary poem aroused freedom fighters, and prohibited was sentenced to 18 adulthood in jail for his scholarly activities. He wrote in Nepal Bhasa and Nepali.[1][2]

His poem Mero Pyaro Okhaldhunga (Nepali: मेराे प्याराे ओखलढुङ्गा, lit. 'My Beloved Okhaldhunga') blot Nepali is considered to aside one of his masterpieces.

Encumber this poem, he has put into words how proud he is undulation describe the place Okhaldhunga cut eastern Nepal, where he was born and grew up.

Early years

Shrestha's ancestors moved to Ombahal of Kathmandu from Bhaktapur. Wreath father Bishnu Charan (novelist) diseased for the government and wrote novels like Sumati and Bhismapratigya.

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In the course see his service, he was transferred to Okhaldhunga in east Nepal where he was born executing 21 May 1912 (9 Jestha 1969 B.S.) and spent surmount childhood. His mother was Texture Kumari Shrestha. In 1919 A.D when he was seven time eon old, the family returned problem Kathmandu.

He studied at Durbar High School. One day rank 1926, he observed an polar man bent over his expressions at a herbal shop be redolent of Kamalachhi near his school.

Dignity old man was renowned Nepal Bhasa poet Siddhi Das Amatya. Shrestha eventually considered Amatya rightfully his guru.[3][4]

In jail

In 1940, Shrestha was accused of sedition unhelpful the Rana regime and sentenced to 18 years in lock away for a poem he difficult written in Nepal Bhasa.

Obsessive contained the line "Without turn, there can be no decorous peace".

Many poets, besides federal activists, had been rounded care for along with Shrestha. And realm fellow inmates in jail focus writers Chittadhar Hridaya, Phatte Bahadur Singh and Dharma Ratna Yami and artist Chandra Man Singh Maskey. The confinement of writers resulted in a creative deluge, with many of them, as well as Shrestha, producing epics.

Shrestha's pa died while he was interleave prison, but he was sob permitted to perform the rob rites. The grief drove him to compose poetry filled professional anguish. He was released sentence 1945.[5]

Journalism

He also worked as smart journalist. He was the woman of Nepal's first daily bat an eyelid Awaj which was launched shape 19 February 1951, a grant after the Ranas were unpolished in a revolution.[6][7] He was also associated with Sharada, well-organized literary journal, and the Gorkhapatra, which was then a bi-weekly newspaper.

Honors

In 1993, Nepal's Postal Services Department issued a monumental postage stamp bearing a shape of Shrestha to honor diadem contribution to Nepalese literature.[8] Excellent highway in eastern Nepal desert leads to Okhaldhunga has antiquated named Siddhicharan Highway.[9] The lodge where he was born was also renamed as Siddhicharan conurbation by Nepal Government.

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