The Review is published in The Rising Nepal dated on 2010 November 19.
- CP
Aryal
Everyone, in
fact, have their own traces in their life. Roshan Sherchan, also a
conservationist by his profession, could not be an exception. Though he could
not be an exception of having some traces in life, he is exception in tethering
his experiences in fine silhouette with mesmerizing magic of words.
Sherchan's Champaran
Blues, a collection of
several essays is a recent publication of Orchid Books. These nostalgic
narratives are afflictions and delightful undergoing of various periods in life
of the author. The collection totalizes writer's memoirs of his days of several
sufferings. Author, in a vivacious tone describes his abroad days and the terrific
turmoil when he was employed in Nepal
Sherchan as a
poet could not leave his instinct reveal in the essays. In almost all of the
crafts in the collection essayist's poetic passions are exposed. The essay Hazar
Muza, Eutai Aakash(Thousand Folds, One Sky) is superbly knotted in poetic approach.
When author's grandmother's home, in a village is dropped out by flood, he goes
to carry her for city life. The essay shows what could be a pang to leave a
place where one's heart is linked with!
Maowadi
Chhayamuni Jindagika Dobharu (Traces of
Life under the Maoist Shadow) is enough in itself provoking emotions to
readers. It is the memoir when author was an officer. Conflict ridden period
was so much horrifying for the job holders in distant areas that Sherchan
evaporated his terrors in this way: "The shadow of the war is more
dreadful than its body."
