Rama Adhikari, TGT
Kathmandu, Oct 19
Pushkar Lohani, an octogenarian poet and critic, has come up with his first novel Adrishya Manchhe. Though Lohani was a part of the co-authors who wrote Aakash Bibhajit Chha (a novel) together back in the seventies, this is his first solo novel. The work was launched amidst an event in Kathmandu on Sunday. The program, kept small and brief in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic was attended by critic Raj Kumar Baniya, journalists and writers Deepak Sapkota, Samarpan Shree and Phanindra Sangam and publisher Pushparaj Poudel. Poudel, Chief of Shikha Books that published the book informed The Gorkha Times that the work is expected to address subtle psychosexual orientations of the human beings. Though brief, the novel is one of its kinds, he said.
It may be noted that Lohani is contemporary of renowned writers Shankar Lamichhane, Parijat, Prema Shah and Ratna Shamsher Thapa. He is among those very few writers of Nepal, who wrote on psychosexual issues all his life.