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Palpasa Café

di Narayan Wagle

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Felicitated by Madan Purashkar in the year 2005, Palpasa Cafe, a novel by Narayan Wagle, is one stop for readers of all kinds and ages. The editor of Kantipur Daily, Wagle's novel is set during the 10-year-long Maoists insurgency in Nepal.Opening on the nameless character referred only as 'I' is an artist and is on the verge of earning prominence with his undaunted skills in art. Few causal yet co-incidental meetings with Palpasa develops into strong feelings between the two. No, this isn't a romantic novel for the emotion is dealt with on a more platonic level here.The story progresses ahead with unexpected twists and turns, and series of co-incidences. Though the scenes appear simple, they bear many marvel points that touch. The book has its share of message and visions for a youthful living along with the suffering we had to go through in the hands of the Maoist and the then government.One of the strong points of the book is its characterization. They are all strong and have definite sense of purpose and beliefs that make them almost too real. For instance, Palpasa is a daring woman who comes back to Nepal from the States and wants to make a significant career in documentary film making. Chhiring and Kishore on the other hand are the rising stars in their photography and singing career respectively. Palpasa's grandmother becomes the author's mouthpiece in voicing his love for his motherland. They are all so simple and life like that one is bound to find at least a character they can relate to.The novel works on different level and through each character Wagle reflects on our culture, values and most important of all deals with the current fascination of the youth in being educated abroad and choosing to live there giving way to a severe case of brain-drain. But the book also has characters that come back to their motherland with great zeal and enthusiasm.Another pressing topic that the book addresses through a series of minor characters is the effect of violence on the innocent people. The writer creates the scenes of skeletal remains of schools and hospitals after series of bombarding and gunfire as we turn the pages. Loss of loved ones in the violence and the pain it causes is shown from different perspective like the death of Mami's children, death of the husband of a newly married woman and the tragedy of losing a best friend experienced by a child.Realistic, simple and the easy flow of language makes it an interesting read It has so much to offer and it succeeds in doing this succinctly, making every information it wants to share brief and to the point. Palpasa Cafe got the hype and it certainly lives up to it.… (altro)
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"I wanted to understand how the quality and intensity of light could change a painting?"
Palpasa Café connotes an impeccable portrait overflowing with commemorative colours that transmutes chameleonic attributes.

Democracy subsists for the affluent and privileged .For others, it is an outlying hallucination; a hypothetical pedestal on which their country dwells upon. It is discomforting for me, to confess with sheer honesty for being just another quintessential hypocritical Indian. We belong to an assured breed who over endless servings of crème brûlée debates the prevalence of worldly pandemonium whilst willfully overlooking our own country’s tumult. Once in a while, amid the ritualistic swigs of espressos, an unexpected referring of a narrative like Palpasa Café freezes our rumination making us ponder about the unnamed lives that flicker and ebb into anonymity of political narcissism.

Nepal,to me is dewy splendor set in frosty Himalayas. Embellished with five seasons, it’s an utter portrayal of lush valleys and picturesque landscape. A neighboring country, Nepal not only shares ethnical and artistic similarities with India, but also docks a common thread of Maoist terrorism.

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist(or UCPN(M),is a Nepalese political party which holds to the Maoist form of Communism. The Maoists announced a ‘People's War’ on February 13, 1996, under the slogan: "Let us march ahead on the path of struggle towards establishing the people's rule by wreaking the reactionary ruling system of state.: Maoists strongly believe in the philosophy of Mao Zedong who proclaimed, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Maoists also draw inspiration from the 'Revolutionary Internationalist Movement',Peru's left wing guerrilla movement—the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path),and from radical communist parties in different parts of the world.

The Nepalese People’s War escalated after the 2001 Royal family massacre. Under-age recruitments and abductions of children and women were rampant raging a civil disobedience movement. Prevalent lives were expunged from acknowledgment to obscurity relenting to mere epigrammatic prints.

Wagle, a career journalist paints an image of a solitary artist-Drishya, a dreamer and absolute romantic. His rummaging for an arty inspiration embarks a flight of finding adoration in Palpasa- an enticing stranger he met on his travels and reunion through an old chum Siddhartha-an active guerrilla. Unknown opportunities impel him to dig up horrors of Maoist terror pockets witnessing discourteous etiquettes and naiveté of obtainable fatalities. The story line interlaces a delicate thread of a discontented love between the artist and Palpasa in the midst of the revulsion terror due to reconcilement of elapsed acquaintances. The psychosomatic booming of guerrillas is well presented from the subsequent explanatory verbatim:-

"How can you ever justify violence?" Drishya asks.
Siddhartha replies: "Without destroying you can’t build anew."
"But people are dying," Drishya pleads.
"The people don’t need peace, they need justice", says his Maoist friend,"If there is justice there will be peace."
"But you are carrying out injustices in the name of justice",says Drishya one last time but it is clear the two can’t even agree to disagree.


Drishya’s tale is neither a celebratory epic nor memorable. It is a dais of numerous omitted mortalities that we perceive through distorted vision and venetian blinders.

That said, translation of any maiden language is torturous. Chiefly, laudable literature as it mislays the authenticity of the writer’s thought processes and crafts murkiness. The narration falters significantly generating imbalance of lucidity. For example:- the assassination of Siddhartha by the armed forces or the coming back of Palpasa into Drishya’s life did not make sense at all. The character presentation is feeble and a few of the conversations do get corny at times. This is what I despise of translated fictions. Just when the plot gets interesting the jagged potholes spring up distorting the essence of it all.

As, my spoon knocks the empty dish, I call on the maître d' for an additional serving of Colombian espresso and crème brûlée. And our bourgeoisie conjectures continue….

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  Praj05 | Apr 5, 2013 |
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मैले यो किताब पहिलोपटक आज भन्दा पांच वर्ष अगाडी पढेको थिएँ। माओबादीको एक दशक लामो बिद्रोह सकिएर भर्खर सात दलको बीचमा शान्ति सम्झौता भएको थियो र सबैजना देशको भविष्य कता जान्छ भन्ने कुरामा चिन्तित देखिन्थे। त्यो समयमा यो किताब पढ्दा म निशब्द भएको थिएँ, मलाई यसको कथाबस्तुले त्यसरी छोएको थियो। द्वन्दको बीचमा फस्टाएको माया र बम र गोलिले छुट्याएको त्यो कथा पढ्दा केहि समय मेरो आखाबाट आँशु पनि झरेका थिए। अहिले मलाई यो कथाको विषयवस्तु पुरा याद छैन। मलाई सबै पात्रको नाम याद छैन। तर यो किताब पढ्दा मेरो मनमा कस्ता भावहरु आएका थिए मलाई याद छ। म त्यो समयको राजनीतिबारे बोल्दिन, त्यो द्वन्द र त्यसको समजमा परेको असरबारे बोल्दिन। मलाई सायद त्यसबारे केहि भन्ने अधिकार नि छैन होला, त्यतिबेला म धेरै की बुझ्दा नि बुझ्दिन थिएँ होला। तर मलाई के थाहा छ भने मजस्ता आफ्नो घरमा बसेर समाचार र रेडियो मा त्यो खबरहरु सुन्ने आम नेपालीहरुको मनमा यो किताबले आफ्नो छाप छोड्न सकेको छ र आज पांच वर्ष पछि पनि यो किताब बारे सोच्दा मलाई त्यहि पाँच वर्ष अघि पढ्दाको बम, बारुद र मृत्युको चित्र दिमागमा आइरहेको छ र सायद अर्को पाच वर्ष पछी पनि आउनेछ।
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Felicitated by Madan Purashkar in the year 2005, Palpasa Cafe, a novel by Narayan Wagle, is one stop for readers of all kinds and ages. The editor of Kantipur Daily, Wagle's novel is set during the 10-year-long Maoists insurgency in Nepal.Opening on the nameless character referred only as 'I' is an artist and is on the verge of earning prominence with his undaunted skills in art. Few causal yet co-incidental meetings with Palpasa develops into strong feelings between the two. No, this isn't a romantic novel for the emotion is dealt with on a more platonic level here.The story progresses ahead with unexpected twists and turns, and series of co-incidences. Though the scenes appear simple, they bear many marvel points that touch. The book has its share of message and visions for a youthful living along with the suffering we had to go through in the hands of the Maoist and the then government.One of the strong points of the book is its characterization. They are all strong and have definite sense of purpose and beliefs that make them almost too real. For instance, Palpasa is a daring woman who comes back to Nepal from the States and wants to make a significant career in documentary film making. Chhiring and Kishore on the other hand are the rising stars in their photography and singing career respectively. Palpasa's grandmother becomes the author's mouthpiece in voicing his love for his motherland. They are all so simple and life like that one is bound to find at least a character they can relate to.The novel works on different level and through each character Wagle reflects on our culture, values and most important of all deals with the current fascination of the youth in being educated abroad and choosing to live there giving way to a severe case of brain-drain. But the book also has characters that come back to their motherland with great zeal and enthusiasm.Another pressing topic that the book addresses through a series of minor characters is the effect of violence on the innocent people. The writer creates the scenes of skeletal remains of schools and hospitals after series of bombarding and gunfire as we turn the pages. Loss of loved ones in the violence and the pain it causes is shown from different perspective like the death of Mami's children, death of the husband of a newly married woman and the tragedy of losing a best friend experienced by a child.Realistic, simple and the easy flow of language makes it an interesting read It has so much to offer and it succeeds in doing this succinctly, making every information it wants to share brief and to the point. Palpasa Cafe got the hype and it certainly lives up to it.

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