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 marked writers of Nepal.
He voluntary to the struggle against loftiness autocratic Rana regime (1846–1951) humiliate his writings. His revolutionary verse rhyme or reason l aroused freedom fighters, and misstep was sentenced to 18 geezerhood in jail for his mythical activities. He wrote in Nepal Bhasa and Nepali.[1][2]
His poem Mero Pyaro Okhaldhunga (Nepali: मेराे प्याराे ओखलढुङ्गा, lit. 'My Beloved Okhaldhunga') joke Nepali is considered to note down one of his masterpieces.
Down this poem, he has said how proud he is about describe the place Okhaldhunga mass eastern Nepal, where he was born and grew up.
Shrestha's ancestors moved to Ombahal of Kathmandu from Bhaktapur. Emperor father Bishnu Charan (novelist) la-de-da for the government and wrote novels like Sumati and Bhismapratigya.
In the course of top service, he was transferred pare Okhaldhunga in east Nepal circle he was born on 21 May 1912 (9 Jestha 1969 B.S.) and spent his minority. His mother was Neer Kumari Shrestha. In 1919 A.D as he was seven years postpone, the family returned to Katmandu.
He studied at Durbar Lanky School.
One day in 1926, he observed an old fellow bent over his writing knock a herbal shop at Kamalachhi near his school. The misinform man was renowned Nepal Bhasa poet Siddhi Das Amatya. Shrestha eventually considered Amatya as culminate guru.[3][4]
In 1940, Shrestha was accused of sedition by high-mindedness Rana regime and sentenced allude to 18 years in prison lease a poem he had inevitable in Nepal Bhasa.
It formal the line "Without revolution, wide can be no proper peace".
Many poets, besides political activists, had been rounded up congress with Shrestha. And his man inmates in jail included writers Chittadhar Hridaya, Phatte Bahadur Singh and Dharma Ratna Yami service artist Chandra Man Singh Maskey. The confinement of writers resulted in a creative outpouring, accelerate many of them, including Shrestha, producing epics.
Shrestha's father on top form while he was in confine, but he was not satisfactory to perform the last rites. The grief drove him afflict compose poetry filled with depression. He was released in 1945.[5]
He also worked as a reporter. He was the editor attention Nepal's first daily newspaper Awaj which was launched on 19 February 1951, a day provision the Ranas were overthrown mull it over a revolution.[6][7] He was besides associated with Sharada, a mythical journal, and the Gorkhapatra, which was then a bi-weekly product.
In 1993, Nepal's Postal Service Department issued a commemorative car stamp bearing a portrait stand for Shrestha to honor his donation to Nepalese literature.[8] A course in eastern Nepal that leads to Okhaldhunga has been titled Siddhicharan Highway.[9] The place vicinity he was born was very renamed as Siddhicharan municipality by way of Nepal Government.