Krishna Prasad Dhakal

A respected experimentalist of literature, Gopal Parajuli has again appeared in the epic titled The Lost Century. His poetic presence in the preparation of war with the weapon of Buddha is the manifestation and inauguration of public and universal truth. Poetry is basically divided into two parts. The first section proposes complains of the current disasters, distortions, wounds, plagues, conspiracies and threats before the man of the century and the present rulers. But after they do not want to hear the outcry of distress and pain or fail to find the solutions, poet Parajuli, in the second part of the epic, proposes agony of the life and pains of the nation to the man of the words. This poem, expressing well-structured and meticulous expression of emotion and thought in four lines, is different from the traditional style and elements. The Lost Century is the immortal vocabulary of thoughts without fiction and philosophy.

Time, In the absence of the current ideals and timeless heroes, has weakened. Therefore, the presentedepic is without protagonist.However, the epic has deep desire and waited for hero of an emperor, great warrior and reformer of the age.  Countries and peoples are co-heroes of the epicand heroines arepeace and freedom. But in the absence ofpowerful hero, villains of epic namelythe darkness, the conspiracies, the selfishness and the violence, are prevalent and they are living and sharing the illusion of being the hero themselves, as consequence the present has taken poisons andhumanity is overwhelmed with injured. Yes, The Lost Century is the proof of the present time. The epic that inspired the word for centuries and centuries into words is not only a source of Nepali literature but also a new and fundamental dimension and way of life in the universe. His words sound like the wounds of a century and feel like flames of fire in some place. .

The country of the Buddha

The lovers of war

Are expressing

To take to their own thoughts

                                                                                                                                                                                  Krishna Prasad Dhakal, Writer and Diplomat

                                                                                                                                                                                     Himal     1-15 Jestha 2058(14-28 May 2001)