| Kathmandu Don Bosco Alumuni organized a “Rendenzvous with Novelist Manjushree Thapa” to mark the last event of the year at Hotel Himalaya on June 3, 2010. The auther who recently launched her new novel Seasons of Flight talked about how it was created. “I thought I could finish it by the end of 2007 but it didn’t happen.Only six months ago I completed it, and it was hard to write,” Thapa said adding, “ The book centers on the backdrop of armed conflict in Nepal and ends with the peace process.” “I here have a centrel female character fron an average family who goes to America and works for another avarage American family,” the novelist shares in the interaction programe. Thapa said that this was her first researched novel, and suggested the young participants not to always write about their experience. “ Sometimes, it’s better to write by reaserching as well,” she said. “The book ponders on how poverty devaluates human life and how one becomes a victim of it,”she added. She further confided that initially she wrote the novel in the first person “but the story wouldn’t seem to open up.So I wrote in the third person.Only then did I feel that things were falling in place.” Prfoessors from Tribhuwan University, writers, critics, journalists and the execitive memebers of Kathamndu Don Bsoco Coellge had attended the program. The program was moderated by Kathamndu Don Bosco Chairman and writer Bishnu Sapkota. The prgram ended with hit-tea and refreshemnt. |
