(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)
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.
16 Ashad 2075 (30 June 2018)
DSRC held its AGM on 16 Ashad 2075 B.S. at IACER, Baneshwor Height, Kathmandu. DSRC Executive Member, Tara Prasad Adhikari conducted the program. General Secretary, Prof. Hriseekesh Upadhyay presented the annual report of the DSRC and Treasurer, Milina Tamrakar presented the annual financial report.…
DSRC organized its monthly program on Saturday, Jestha 26, 2075 at IACER. Shiva Raj Pant presented his initiation paper on Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s Rajkumar Prabhakar. In his paper, he mainly highlighted poet Devkota’s idea of readership expressed in Prabhakar. He even linked this idea with the view of readership expressed…
On Saturday, February 10, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., DSRC will hold its regular monthly program
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.
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
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…
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
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 for man here born
with all the richest viands served for sense;
the sky so lazulite studded with gems,
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सहस्रशीर्ष, सहस्रपाद !
झल्किरहेछ एक विराट् !
Sky! You secretly nourish mere darkness that will devour you!
O! Of theft, O! You darkness
of sale,
of hyenas, of owls,
of conspirators,
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.
In the full-moon splendor
surging, swelling, furrowing deep
rise waves that break along
the shores of language.
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