“Chhapamar Yuwatiko Diary” (The Diary of a young Guerrilla woman)
“Chhapamar
Yuwatiko Diary” (The Diary of a young Guerrilla woman)
Writer – Tara Rai “Anamol”
ISBN: 978 – 9993 – 3 – 0813 – 3
Binding: Paperback
Price : 175/-
Published by: Ratna Pushtak Bhandar,
Kathmandu
Year of First Publication: 2067,
Nepal (Nepali Calendar).
Year of Tenth Publication: 2069,
Nepal (Nepali Calendar).
Subject: Autobiographical Essays.
“Chhapamar Yuwatiko Diary” can be
included as one of the bestseller in Nepal after having sold 50,000 copies in
just two days and with the release of tenth edition of the book presently in
the market. The book was also awarded the prestigious Madan Sahitya Puruskar,
Nepal. The stories portray the life of a young 15 year old Guerrilla girl named
Tara Rai also the writer of the book. The main reason behind terming the book
as autobiography lays in the fact that the whole facts, situations have been
seen and analyzed from the eyes and mind of the writer or the main protagonist
of the book.
Tara Rai, the writer was educated
till primary level and had joined the cultural wing of Maoist Movement at a
very small age of 15 years. Within a short span of three months as a Maoist,
she is captured by the Army personnel kept behind bars and then freed a year
later. The entire stories have been incepted from behind the pillars, reminiscence
of her becoming a Maoist without giving any second thought, her introspection
on the difference in the human behavior. Moreover, keeping aside the skepticism, she
has triumphed as a runaway bestselling writer.
The oppressed voice of common men
which is always made a scapegoat in the conflicts. The clash between the Shah
armies and the Maoist forces in the streets and hills in a chaotic decade. The
Maoist movements in Nepal structured by Maoist(s) like Tara and their dream of
Independent Nepal and the Army men and their task of Peace restoration. The
evolution of Tara’s story can be traced at such paradoxical juncture where Army
men and Maoist killed each other not knowing they were men of the same nation.
The book has been reviewed by many
critics, “most affiliated writers and critics terming it to be as a book of
forgery and even accusing the people behind the book who helped to bring Rai’s
book to the market of corrupting her attitude towards the Maoist forces” – The
Kathmandu Post, but not of India, this is the first initiative as there
lays some similarities in Gorkha (India) and Nepali (Nepal) language. Though the Diary maybe a straightforward
narration of Tara’s life but it should not be forgotten - that the story as its
allegory also has the face of anxious Nepal and the cries, sorrows and the
grief of a clamoring era.
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