Mahesh Prasain Shabda Sarathi

Gopal Parajuli is an experimental writer of the modern generation. He is a poet. He is a storywriter.

There was a time he had earned fame in sports as an accomplished boxer. But now, in a realm of sensitivity, readers recognize how he has become emotionally thawed. He loves to reorganize the aberrant realities of life in an ordered way. He loves to see those different aspects of life separately with different values and perspectives, and to reexamine them. He expresses his unwillingness to bind his expressions within defined limits and formulae.

The different expressions coming from him are not mere abstractions or complications. However, they certainly are causes trying to create a 'special situation'. Parajuli projects characters beset by the drives of resignation and frustration, and tries to instill a sense of confidence in life and firmness toward self-consciousness. By means of various characters, poet Parajuli repeatedly announces newer possibilities. He seeks the use of extraordinary expressions in ordinary incidents.

The word 'experiment' obviously signals a search for a new thing. In fact, the entire creation is a series of experiments.

In poetry, the use of temporal demarcation decides the degree of modernity. In this regard, Parajuli loves to unveil his disenchantment with tradition and celebrates his inclination toward innovativeness. If examined on the basis of the logics he presents in his thought-provoking poems, stories or plays, he should be explained from his tendency to invent a cause in a non-causal issue, and of a motif in a case devoid of any motif. Yet, he mixes philosophy with emotions and ethos with plot organization. For this reason, one doesn’t experience contradiction in his intellect, though his authorial personality is rather ambitious.

As concreteness follows fineness, a concrete form evolves. Accordingly, Gopal's concrete characters enter a lane of extreme fineness. Staying away from exaggeration and showiness, they remain proactive to assume a 'realistic conduct'. Poet Parajuli doesn’t weigh life as thin, fat, tall or short, but finalizes his agreement with the conscious-unconscious minds of his characters, and by means of the same characters, makes a bright declaration.

Mahesh Prasain, Poet

Shabda Sarathi, December-January, 2000