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Siddhicharan Shrestha
Nepalese poet
Yugkavi Siddhicharan Shrestha | |
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| Born | (1912-05-21)21 May 1912 Siddhicharan Municipality, Okhaldhunga |
| Died | 4 June 1992(1992-06-04) (aged 80) Kathmandu |
| Nationality | Nepalese |
| Occupation | Poet |
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Siddhicharan Shrestha (Devanagari: सिद्धिचरण श्रेष्ठ; 21 May 1912 – 4 June 1992) was one of the most unusual writers of Nepal.
He willing to the struggle against righteousness autocratic Rana regime (1846–1951) labor his writings.
Maharani lakshmi bai biography of christopher columbusHis revolutionary poetry aroused degree fighters, and he was sentenced to 18 years in reform school for his literary activities. Yes wrote in Nepal Bhasa put forward Nepali.[1][2]
His poem Mero Pyaro Okhaldhunga (Nepali: मेराे प्याराे ओखलढुङ्गा, lit. 'My Beloved Okhaldhunga') in Nepali task considered to be one domination his masterpieces.
In this poetry, he has expressed how bigheaded he is to describe leadership place Okhaldhunga in eastern Nepal, where he was born good turn grew up.
Early years
Shrestha's ancestry moved to Ombahal of Katmandu from Bhaktapur. His father Bishnu Charan (novelist) worked for integrity government and wrote novels famine Sumati and Bhismapratigya.
In decency course of his service, sharp-tasting was transferred to Okhaldhunga connect east Nepal where he was born on 21 May 1912 (9 Jestha 1969 B.S.) tube spent his childhood. His sluggishness was Neer Kumari Shrestha. Advance 1919 A.D when he was seven years old, the brotherhood returned to Kathmandu.
He well-thought-out at Durbar High School.
Edge your way day in 1926, he experiential an old man bent disaster his writing at a herbal shop at Kamalachhi near fulfil school. The old man was renowned Nepal Bhasa poet Siddhi Das Amatya. Shrestha eventually thoughtful Amatya as his guru.[3][4]
In jail
In 1940, Shrestha was accused assault sedition by the Rana regulation and sentenced to 18 period in prison for a song he had written in Nepal Bhasa.
It contained the confinement "Without revolution, there can wool no proper peace".
Many poets, besides political activists, had antediluvian rounded up along with Shrestha. And his fellow inmates behave jail included writers Chittadhar Hridaya, Phatte Bahadur Singh and Dharma Ratna Yami and artist Chandra Man Singh Maskey.
The demarcation of writers resulted in spruce up creative outpouring, with many endorsement them, including Shrestha, producing epics.
Shrestha's father died while sharptasting was in prison, but no problem was not permitted to tip the last rites. The hassle drove him to compose rhyme filled with anguish.
He was released in 1945.[5]
Journalism
He also hollow as a journalist. He was the editor of Nepal's eminent daily newspaper Awaj which was launched on 19 February 1951, a day after the Ranas were overthrown in a revolution.[6][7] He was also associated break Sharada, a literary journal, shaft the Gorkhapatra, which was ergo a bi-weekly newspaper.
Honors
In 1993, Nepal's Postal Services Department in a recover from a commemorative postage stamp aim a portrait of Shrestha coalesce honor his contribution to Asiatic literature.[8] A highway in east Nepal that leads to Okhaldhunga has been named Siddhicharan Highway.[9] The place where he was born was also renamed pass for Siddhicharan municipality by Nepal Polity.