Themes in Rajendra Bhandari identify card of an unemployed youth ?
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Rajendra Bhandari
(India, 1956)
Friday 1 September 2006
Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is a Nepali poet of repute. A Reader in Nepali at the Sikkim Government College, Gangtok, he holds a doctorate in Nepali literature from the University of North Bengal. He has published three collections of poetry and has won various awards over the years, including the Diyalo Purashkar in Poetry from the Nepali Sahitya Sammelan, Darjeeling (1981), the Shiva Kumar Rai Memorial Award for poetry from the South Sikkim Sahitya Sammelan (1998) and the Dr Shova Kanti Thegim Memorial Award for poetry from the Shovakanti Memorial Trust, Gangtok (1999).
Themes and Recurring Images in Some of
Rajendra Bhandari’s Poems
Shobha Sharma
Dr. Rajendra Bhandari is a prolific poet from the hills of Sikkim tucked
within the lush and beautiful arms of the mighty Khachendzonga. He has
been writing poems in Nepali for the past four decades. He has published
a number of poems and is a renowned poet not only in the North East,
Bengal and various places in India but also in Nepal. His poems have been
translated by him as well as by some of his good friends from the region
who could well understand his sensitivity of the expressions. His poetry
varies from satire to nostalgia, from celebrating life to spirituality, from
the outer forces and beauty of nature of thinking process of men and
manners. Bhandari’s poems deal with the identity crisis of a small town.
His clear streams, the thunder, the raging storm in his poetry all symbolizes
the towering forces of nature that rages within man. The inner conflict, the
urge to be accepted, the search for love, the quest for freedom are some of
the themes found in his poems.
The recurring theme in Bhandari’s poetry is the polarity between
extremes like the physical and the spiritual, the real and the imagined.
Loneliness, words and poetry are some of the common recurring images in
Bhandari’s Poetry. His poetry is remarkably immersed in mysticism and
myth and with the social and political upheavals. He expresses his deep
resentment towards the injustice and the growing, widening gap between
the haves and the have-nots. The loss of values; cultural and social is another
aspect that he explores through his poems. He celebrates solitude and also
cries out at extreme loneliness with longingness for a companionship. One
experiences spiritual quest and its fulfilment like in Bhitra Kohi Chha (Is
anybody Inside?).
In Raatbhari Godavari hawaasangha nachirahyuo (The
chrysanthemum danced out the windy night), the poet expresses the eternal
struggle of men towards the forces of nature (both within and without).
The raging storm is that of the mind, the bursting forth of human emotions
and frustrations, the urge to let go yet restrain. The whole night the mind
struggles and fights, there is a raving and ranting as experienced by
Shakeapeare’s King Lear. It also reminds us of John Donne’s Holy Sonnet.
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