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Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota
(Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota: 3rd from right in the first row on chair at a gathering of eminent literary personality of Nepali language and literature in Darjeeling in the1950s)
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MAHAKAVI LAXMI PRASAD DEVKOTA STUDY AND RESEARCH CENTRE
MAHAKAVI LAXMI PRASAD DEVKOTA STUDY AND RESEARCH CENTRE was set up in June 2005 at the initiative of writers, academicians and concerned citizens to honour the memory of Laxmi Prasad Devkota and to promote research and scholarship on his life and works.
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Monthly Program September 2017
September 16, 2017 (Bhadra 31, 2074): DSRC held its monthly program at IACER on Saturday, Bhadra 31, 2074 . Shekhar Pokharel presented his initiation paper in the form of PowerPoint presentation on Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s essay “The Muscovite and the Kathmandu Wight.” In his paper, he pointed out how beautifully…
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Tenth Annual Conference 2017
*Tenth Annual Conference: 2017
Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota Study and Research Center has scheduled its Tenth Annual Conference and 108th. Birth Anniversary of Mahakavi Devkota for November 11-12, 2017, corresponding to Kartik 25-26, 2074. The major focus of the conference is Devkota’s Body Consciousness. Scholars are also invited to write papers…
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Monthly Program August 2017
August 12, 2017 (Shrawan 28, 2074): DSRC held its monthly program at IACER, Baneshwor Heights. Krishna Niroula initiated the discussion on Poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota's poem "Dorjilingko Baghchulima." He recited the poem and presented his observation briefly. Then, the participants expressed…
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Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Inception: Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909-1959), lovingly known as Mahakavi or Great Poet for his significant body of powerful writings in Nepali and English, commands immense respect in the world of Nepali letters. Nearly half a century after he left the literary scene, Devkota’s contributions in diverse genres of literature and many areas of Nepalese social and cultural life remain deeply felt and appreciated. Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota Study and Research Centre (DSRC) was set up in June 2005 at the initiative of writers, academicians and concerned citizens to honour the memory of Laxmi Prasad Devkota and to promote research and scholarship on his life and works.
The Devkota Centre thanks Ms. MEERA DEVKOTA, the poet's daughter, for allowing it to establish its office in Mahakavi Devkota's room in Kavi-Kunja free of cost. She is the owner of the house at Maitidevi.
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From: “The Electric Bulb”
No hairy ass…overloaded and overmiserable, drooping and dejected, dead spent and halting, in despair of life-energy, yet apologising to live, helplessly staring at the world with just a flicker of low level consciousness, a dying hide
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From: “Imagination”
To me, Bharat does not mean that heap of earth, which is the Himalayas, and which, standing as a wall in the north, is bound on three sides by the sea. I see Bharat as an imprint on the canopy of the heart. Genuine Bharat shines in…
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From: “Ajima,” a short story by Laxmi Prasad Devkota.
Indeed, nothing troubles women like the Rahu of barrenness. It is this that eclipses their life. A woman’s life, life’s self-support itself, lies in giving life to earth. Her sole supremacy over man lies in her
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Carousal
I revel with the Lord in the form and the hue,
In the drama of the smile, the shade and the dew, -
Life is the richest feast
Life is the richest feast for man here born
with all the richest viands served for sense;
the sky so lazulite studded with gems, -
मानिस विराट्
क)
सहस्रशीर्ष, सहस्रपाद !
झल्किरहेछ एक विराट् !
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To the Morning Sky
Sky! You secretly nourish mere darkness that will devour you!
O! Of theft, O! You darkness
of sale,
of hyenas, of owls,
of conspirators, -
Song of the Nightingale
What says this nightingale?
Well-formed downs of tear cover the skies,
Undulating like waves that billow within the heart
towards the queen-moon of loveliness. -
The Song of the Depths
In the full-moon splendor
surging, swelling, furrowing deep
rise waves that break along
the shores of language.
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