Agam Singh Giri {From Gorkhapedia, the free Gorkha encyclopedia} Nepali Literature Born 1928 Died 1971 Agam Singh Giri - , a poet of distinction, is regarded as one who best represented the Indian Nepalese (Gorkha) people in Nepali literature. His five poetical collections are (Yaad)- Remembrance, (Atama Vyathaa) - Anguish, mine, (Aashu) - Tears, (Jivan Geet) - Lifes songs, (Youdha r Yoodhaa) - War and Warrior, (Jaleko Pratiwimba r Roeko Pratidhawni) A burning image and a weeping echo. The first collection was published in 1955 and the last one was published posthumously in 1978 and it was awarded the first Bhanu Puraskar in 1979 by the Nepali Academy of West Bengal. Giri writes of sadness felt incessantly by him and a rather over-burdensome sadness prevades his poems. No product of any personal trauma, yet this sadness was intrinsic to Giris own nature. The poets painful realisation of the sad plight of the Indian Nepalese of Gorkhas made it later more acute and the poet discursive. Nevertheless a majority of the best poems of Giri fall in the later category of his poems. In his first phase the poet alternated between inwardly cognizing his sadness as though in purity when poetry was for him a painful expression of an accursed life and focusing it outward and bearing it in fusion with other feelings as an in-grown aspect of the existing social reality. The second choice or tendency perceptibly gained on the first. Of the Indian Gorkhas, who, Giri felt, are today only a faint shadow of their former glorious self, he says: You have become unrecognisable here Blood in your cheeks has dried up The light in your eyes is gone You look like a child who has fallen asleep, sobbing Like a prisoner tortured long The ill-fated whose morsels are snatched away And the house dispossessed I have come only to see whether you are You But, you have become unrecognisable Ever of romantic temperaments in his writings, Gir : item definition quoted text : definition i wrote lilting metrical lines and smoothly rhythmical free verse with equal ease. He opted increasingly for the second in his later days in an effort to selectively take in some of the agreeable aspects of modernist writing. He wrote (Youdha r Yoodhaa) - War and Warrior making relevant to the Gorkhas on a grand scale the ringing declaration of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose You can perhaps force a man to shoulder a rifle but you can never make him fight to give his life for a cause which is not his own. REFERENCES 1.Guman Singh Chamling, Maulo 1978 2. Indra Bahadur Rai, Tipeka Tipaniharu 1966 3.Kumar Pradhan, A History of Nepali Literature 4.Ram Mani Risal, Nepali Kavya r kavi 1974 {From Gorkhapedia, the free Gorkha encyclopedia} Collected by RAJU ATREYA &Photo by BHASKAR GARJIREL
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