Unconditional: Dahlia Tera Loves Nepalnamcha
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO NEPALNAMCHA!
Dahlia Tera
Some of you may have read some of my poems that have been kindly published here in these pages of Nepal Namcha and of which I go very gratified and happy, always sincerely thanking the editor Ashok Silwal.
Today instead, it is as a reader that I want to leave a few lines.
When you get used to it, reading Nepal Namcha becomes both a kind of addiction and an expectation of ‘surprises’ and discoveries. These small “ meetings” become enriching moments of pleasure, of knowledge, of reflection and updating as well as relaxation.
As it is not a specialized journal, you can indeed expect all sorts of themes and arguments and that is what also makes it charming.
The opportunity is offered to take an interest in many things, to get closer to unknown spheres, to discover landscapes, traditions, people, points of view……
It can be very serious, very cultivated, very ‘everyday’, literary, scientific, poetic, funny, artistic, philosophical, religious, historical, political……
Never boring even if you are not particularly prepared for the argument!
The articles are never too long and often suggest an unknown, unexpected and original aspect.
You will find there the language of the writers, of the journalists and the poets but also of the children, of students and teenagers, of women at home and compatriots abroad and more.
If you read something in the morning, that something generally stays with you during the day ; you think about it and want to deeper.
Nepal Namcha is both a relaxing and energizing reading…
The selection work behind the publications is surely very meticulous and not at all left to the chance of shipments. You feel that there is the desire to offer a ‘little fireworks’ of ideas, knowledge, feelings, situations, advises perhaps….
This is how there are philosophical reflections on the meaning of life and death, pandemic news with psychological and social repercussions, memories of native villages, stories and traditions about animals (dogs, birds, lately cows…), descriptions of little-known regions, short or longer poems… last born in these days Love Festival in Valentine’s Week.
Without pedantry but to satisfy curiosity, to know a little more, to learn and have a good time.
Then there are the stories: families, loves and pains, mournings and births.. with, in the background, the denunciation of injustices, of discriminations, words given to the women.
No polemical spirit but true and touching flashes about our country and from the world sometimes: from the Italian coffee to our forced marriages, from saris’ fashion to our political and economic situation, from the short love poems to the long family stories…
It is this ‘mixture’ that makes the richness of Nepal Namcha and its originality.
You can read here for ten minutes or for two hours…. The reader feels respected, he can choose another argument, he has no imposition.
For all these reasons, probably awkwardly expressed, I’m happy to be one of these readers of Nepal Namcha and I can only share the curiosity and enthusiasm that accompanies me almost everyday..
I would also like to express here my thanks and my gratitude with my compliments to the editor, who accomplishes his work with passion and efficiency, originality and dynamism…. in times which are undoubtedly not always easy.
Sometimes, for a well-done job, congratulations are not only fully deserved but they do good to the mind and to the heart… I hope so.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO NEPALNAMCHA!
