Browsing by Author "Timalsina, Ramji"

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    Ecofear in Mohan Koirala's Ambassadors of the Wetland
    (In Search of Fearlessness Research Intitute & The Fearology Institute, 2021-04-08) Timalsina, Ramji
    People who are conscious of the impact of environmental degradation become fearful of its consequences. They deal with this issue in their creations. Such creative works including literature function to make the readers both aware of the possibility and fearful of the consequences. As a result, these ecoconscious people will be ready to work for the preservation of the environment. This bifurcated idea of ecofearism (generation of the fear of the impact of environmental degradation through consciousness, and the resultant readiness to preserve the ecology) can be seen in the epic Simasaarakaa Raajdut [Ambassadors of the Wetland] composed by a modernist Nepali poet Mohan Koirala. Written on the poet's deathbed and published posthumously, the epic deals with the fear of the protagonist about the destruction of the flora and fauna of the Nepalese plains. It depicts the fate and fear of the birds and bird conservers. The epic symbolically connects the fear of the poet and the protagonist with the increasing fear of ecoconscious human beings about the possible annihilation of human civilization if the depletion of ecological balance continues in the same extent as it is going on now. In this context, this article interprets the epic to throw light on the connection among growing human consciousness, fear, growing ecological imbalance and the poet's appeal for the preservation of nature. For this qualitative research, the ideas of ecofearism developed by Simon C. Estok, and R. Micheal Fisher and other growing ecofearists have been used as a theoretical perspective. The step-wise formula of ecofearist studies 'Life-Consciousness-Knowledge-Eco-Crisis-Eco-Fearism' has been referred to in the development of the paper.
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    Fear in Bhutanese Nepali Diasporic Poetry
    (In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2020-02-24) Timalsina, Ramji
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    Fear in corona time: Nepali poetry
    (In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2020-08-17) Timalsina, Ramji
    The whole of humanity felt threatened together for the first time in its history because of Corona Virus Disease 2019 [COVID-19]. Such an extent of fear has been expressed in different forms. Literary creation is one such site of expressions. On this background, this research article has explored how the emotion of fear is expressed through Nepali poetry composed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The poems used for interpretation were composed in Nepal and beyond by the poets who are Nepali in their origin though they live in different parts of the world at present. Using random sampling in the selection of the texts, the ten poems by nine different Nepali poets have been used to explore how they present fear related to COVID-19. The lines quoted in English are my free translations from Nepali except the poems of Manprasad Subba, Mukul Dahal, and Yati Raj Ajanabi who have published their poems in both the Nepali and English versions. The analysis has come to the conclusion that these poems depict the picture of troublesome life of the period and give voice to the atmosphere of fear, types of fear, sources of fear and levels of fear.
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    (In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2020-08-17) Timalsina, Ramji