Pagal
by Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Original titleपागल
Written1953
CountryNepal
LanguageNepali

Pagal (Nepali: पागल, lit.'The Lunatic') is a 1953 poem by Nepalese writer Laxmi Prasad Devkota.[1]

In 1939, Devkota's brothers admitted him to a mental hospital in Ranchi, British India where he stayed at the hospital for five months.[2][3]

Pagal was published in 1953 and it was translated to English as The Lunatic by Laxmi Prasad Devkota in 1956.[4]

Pagal is one of the popular poems in Nepal and it is sometimes regarded as a classic poem of Nepali literature.[5][6]

References

  1. Adhikary, Dr Ramesh Prasad (17 April 2020). "Devkota's Voice Of Rebellion And Social Critique in the Lunatic". International Journal of All Research Writings. 1 (10): 98–106.
  2. Shrestha, Nanda R. (8 February 2017). Historical Dictionary of Nepal. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-7770-0.
  3. Seale-Feldman, Aidan (6 March 2020). "Historicizing the Emergence of Global Mental Health in Nepal (1950-2019)". HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 39 (2). ISSN 2471-3716.
  4. Contributions to Nepalese studies. Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University. 1990. p. 209.
  5. Devkota, Laxmi Prasad (1996). Devakota's Muna-Madana: Translation and Analysis. Sajha Co-operative Publication. p. 2.
  6. Vasudha. 1977. p. 34.


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