Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Second Impression

I possess abundant respect and honor for poets. However, I don't like poems because I, let me admit honestly, don't understand the inner meanings of the poems. This is my weakness.

Nevertheless, I have profound love for songs and music because I enjoy from the simple and understandable lyrics and the music that enriched the said words.

I have remained an undeclared fan of modern songs specially those which are sentimental in nature and content. I use to sing when I was myself a school-going student. In effect I was and still a bath-room singer.

Some songs with good music by renowned artistes have made me to become over-romantic. There are some songs which have, let me recall, made me to weep even.

The topic I have chosen today for my august readers might not be that interesting one. Some would see the topic as a bogus one. Others might even say that I selected a non-issue. However, yet another section-I suppose the lovers of music and songs-will perhaps take it the way it is presented. Nevertheless, the fact is that such topics I rarely print in my newspaper for a variety of reasons. Either lack of knowledge or lack of interest in such issues. Give it any name.

Today, I have tried to write few lines on one yet-to-be released music album signed by a lady who now resides in city of Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota, USA, with her husband who is an employee at an American company there.

The songs contained in the said music album entitled-"LAHAR" (The Wave in English) has some songs penned by Nepal's renowned lyricists like, Chudamani Devkota, Bimal Koirala, SP Koirala and others and have been composed by highly acclaimed musicians like Shakti Ballab, Laxman Shesh, and Rajan Rimal ,Samrat Thapa and others.

The songs are generally modern Nepali songs. This music album has come at a time when most of the Nepali youths of the present generation have no longing for the modern songs but instead they prefer to listen to what others either don't understand or conclude that the real Nepali culture has been lost in the midst of the prevalence of such songs that are neither modern nor contain Nepaliness in them.

The lady, NISHA DEVKOTA, who just has finished her music album and is about to wind up her mission this time to Kathmandu lamented that she should have dedicated this album in the name of Nepal-America Friendship. However, this she could not do for a variety of internal political reasons which perhaps the Americans will understand.

In effect the singer-lady which has given birth to a little baby girl some twenty months back, KAVYA-an American citizen, have had reasons aplenty to dedicate this music album in the name of our bilateral friendship.

Nevertheless, Nisha and her husband, Rajesh Devkota, are planning to release this music album right in the Minnesota where the couple resides. She and her husband have plans to get it released by some local American personality of high standing and dedicate the album for the uninterrupted fifty plus years of Nepal-American bilateral cooperation. If they do it so, and they should do it in all honesty, would provide a new meaning to their long stay in the USA.

That would be a good idea indeed. KAVYA, the little-baby-girl could well become a bridge of permanent friendship in between Kathmandu and Minneapolis. KAVYA could be a linkage in between the two cities when she comes of her age.

I wish this collection of songs will stimulate the feelings of both the Nepalese and the Americans. After all, music and songs know no boundaries. No artificial barriers could block it. Sentiments are every where the same whether it is America or Nepal. All the best to you Nisha for your marvelous performance! She could be reached at nishadevkota.com