Ramesh Gorkhali

Shabda Shatabdi (The Lost Century) is an excellent epic in modern Nepali literature. At the advent of the new century, the poet has been able to analyze the acrid realities of life, albeit in a fuzzy way. Though he is himself quite ambitious, he is more committed to centrifugal locations, and the welfare of others. The subject matter, characters, ethos, style, atmosphere and motif have made this epic a work oriented toward life.

This is a postmodern, experimental epic. Through its critical-realistic approach, it reflects multicultural values, their complications and their gradual weathering. The epic bears the objective reality about systemic illusion and corruption that have made human conscience disturbed. In the line of the path shown by our time's great literary pathfinders through their struggles for self-reliance, poet Parajuli has committed himself to the promotion of those values, and for that reason, we can call commend him as a spiritual expert. A writer inspired by the idea of incessant labor and hard work, and writing until human concerns are fully unearthed, poet Parajuli is an exponential poet of modern Nepali literature.

Ramesh Gorkhali, Critic

Mrigatrishna, Issue 2, 2001