Desh Bidesh and Divine musician
Desh Bidesh shares the author’s travel experiences across different places in Nepal , India , Sri Lanka , Bangkok , Dhaka and Singapore .
The book, unlike his earlier travelogues, gives us vivid pictures of the cities of Nepal and the cities of South Asian regions, their differences and likelyness. “I have tried to pen down the famous but not very well written places of historical and cultural importance in Tarai,” writes the author. Tarai has many cultural and historical places like Barahathawa and Murtiya that need preservation.
Desh Bidesh includes 17 memoirs of the authors visit across Nepal and 15 memoirs of the visit in different South Asian countries — mostly to the Indian cities — and Singapore, Bangkok at different times on different occasions.
Being an ardent culture-lover, he is successful in presenting the cultural background of almost all the places he has visited and the readers can benefit from his experience.
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Desh Bidesh
Author: Dr Ram dayal Rakesh
Publisher: Bidhyarthi Pustak Bhandar
Pages: 131
Price: Rs 100
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Divine musician - Dibya Sangeetkaar
Dibya Sangeetkaar, Dibya Khaling is a book that has memoirs of musician-cum-lyricist late Dibya Khaling written by his friends and family members from a very senior poet Madhav Ghimire to his collegues Kiran Pradhan and Bulu Mukarung to his juniors.
Dibya Khaling was not only musician, but a well-known lyricist also whose ever-green songs like Sadhai Ma hanse, Timilai ruwae (I always enjoyed, making you cry), Mera Geet Sabai Timilai (All my songs are for you), and Preyashika Yaadharu (memoirs of girl-friend). “These hit numbers make him immortal and he doesnot need any adjectives for his introduction,” writes Bulu Mukarung in his memoirs. Famous singers from late Narayangopal, Arun Thapa, to present Gyanu Rana and Mira Rana are remembered because they all sang his songs on his composition.
Dibya Sangeetkaar, Dibya Khaling has the collection of Dibya’s lyrics and his family pictures that makes this book a real memoir. Grace Khaling, Dibya’s wife; Prakash Sayami and Bhuwan Devkota have put their hard labour to bring this book out and what could have been a good present than this for a man, according to his own son, “who lived, slept, and breathed with his harminium, and with the joy of playing his instrument.”
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Book — Dibya Sangeetkaar, Dibya Khaling
Publisher — Ekata Publication
Price — Rs 250
Pages — 336
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