Dr. Taranath Sharma

Gopal Parajuli's Prithvimaathi Aalekh (The Mother Figure) is a work of prose poetry. It has its own and multiple specialties. This work in which poet Parajuli has expressed his feelings for his mother Thir Kumari in a lucid way, is a poetic write-up on the entire human race.  This poem has taken shape, overflowed and spilled out from the worthy assumptions of humanism, the pristine lucidity of vitalistic theory and bright faith in future, which are lush in Parajuli's veins.  This is a poem of today, standing on a problem that pertains to the present time. It is today's voice that wakes up in today's commotion, and resounds everywhere. This is today's vision, today's circumstance, and today's analysis which, in spite of being influenced by personal mental realities, has transcended the realm of individuality and has become collective, and has transgressed its limits of geography to become global and humanistic. This time is today's, which has become timeless by galloping its horse upon the present time. Thus, it has become eternal and endless. In this poetic work whose all five cantos address the poet's mother, the first one depicts the tortures people are doomed to endure in the present world. The second one is filled with the poet's view on nature, while the third one consists of poet Parajuli's conversation with death. In the fourth write-up, he applies balm on the bruises left by death, and sings eulogies in favor of life, and in the fifth he has sought answers to the question he raises in the first canto.

Poet Parajuli, siding with the grand assumption of humanity, imagines a decent, modest and clean society. He believes in the establishment of a free, self-reliant and affluent society. He hopes for the future of humanity devoid of hatred, selfishness and meanness.

Dr. Taranath Sharma, Critic

Garima, March-April, 1990