Our Nepal, Our Pride: a poetry book debut by Bhuwan Thapaliya (Nepal). This first poetry collection by Bhuwan was launched before a crowd of over 250 distinguished guests and poetry lovers at the Nepal Tourist Board in Kathmandu (September 5, 2008).
Comments by Adam Donaldson Powell
The poetry of Bhuwan Thapaliya is the poetry of each and every one of us. Mr. Thapaliya has the uncanny ability to appeal to hearts, minds and souls in such beautiful ways that even the pictures of disillusionment, pain and loss that he paints leave us with a sense of romanticism that is ultimately optimistic. Optimistic because Bhuwan Thapaliya always shows us the answer: love, and freedom from the illusion of separation. His romantic poetry will never be out of date because Bhuwan Thapaliya’s natural talent for this form of writing reaches deep inside our hearts, and squeezes them like sponges ... cleansing us of our hardness, our cynicism and our ignorance. If only just for one or two glorious moments, we feel humane ... and at one with our surroundings. Bhuwan Thapaliya is not just a young man in love with the notion of love. He has seen suffering, and felt the pain that life endows upon us all – both individually, and collectively. He speaks with the impatient passion and intuited authority of youth and, at the same time, with the peaceful acceptance and learned humility of those who are twice his age. This poet understands both the effects of poetry, and its importance. Bhuwan Thapaliya has an important function in a world that is desperately in need of voices conveying hope, as well as voices that would point a finger and exclaim: "we can do better than this!" Bhuwan Thapaliya is our conscience. His poetry is our pride, our reality reaching towards our dream ... our hope.
Bhuwan is ... the poetry of life.
— by Adam Donaldson Powell (Norway), 2008
About the author:
Born in Nepal in the 1970’s, Bhuwan Thapaliya was raised and educated in Kathmandu. He studied economics and finance before turning to poetry in his mid twenties. His writing is imbued with the art and culture of Nepal that he grew up with but he is eminently qualified as an Oriental and as an Occidental poet, for his poetry truly represents a marriage between the traditions of East and West, and in a way that is immediately appealing and cohesive. Bhuwan is not just a poet; he is a man with a mission, seeking world peace. He is a prolific poet and is writing his own Everest, but his writing is not only about statistics. It is about spreading the message of global peace, universal solidarity and love.
"Behold the spirit of poetry ... it never dies, nor does it ever grow old. A real poem is the heartbeat of humanity."
— Bhuwan Thapaliya
Bhuwan's profile
Book launch on September 5, 2008 - Nepal Tourist Board, Kathmandu.
Reviews from the book launch:
The Kathmandu Post
www.thoughts.com
PressReleasePoint: Bhuwan Thapaliya‘s first collection Our Nepal, Our Pride
"Our Nepal, Our Pride" is available from Cyberwit
and
Amazon.com
Yes, Bhuwan is definitely on the move...
(all photos on this page and in the slideshow from the book launch courtesy of Bhuwan Thapaliya.)
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