seto dharti book review in nepali language

Amar Neupane

Amar Neupane is a Nepali youth novelist and personality in Nepalese literature. His first novel Paniko Gham was published in 2066 BS and won the Padhyashree Sahitya Samman award. His collection of children’s stories Kalilo Man won the Parijat Balsahitya Pandulipi Purashkar award.

This is a story about a girl named Tara, who was got married as she was a child of age 7. After her marriage, her husband went to India for work and he died there. So after that, she has been alone for some time and society did not let her live life her own way. She used to live in a very narrow-minded society and a very small friend circle. Even her husband has been dead but she felt like her husband is controlling her and her life. After that, she felt like a burden to her family and so that she will decide to move to a place called Dev Ghat to live her rest of the life.

A character named Yamuna, who was very happy in her life. She told Tara her relationship with her husband which was very good and full of happiness. After listening to the love story of Yamuna, Tara felt she needs physical and mental support as like Yamuna.

Another Character named Pavitra, who was also got married when she was a child, and her husband has also died like Tara. Tara and Pavitra both are very good friends from their childhood. Like Tara followed the rules of society, Pavitra did not follow the rules of the society and she will get what she wants both physically and mentally.

In the end, these all characters will meet at the place called Dev Ghat. There is also a male character named Govinda. Govinda was a teacher of Tara in her childhood. He also taught some letters to Tara. Tara used to admire Govinda from her childhood, she used to see him everywhere but never met him after marriage but at last, she met him and Tara will get all the happiness which she wants from her life.

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‘Seto Dharti’: A heartbreaking story of love, loss and hope

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“Seto Dharti” is a Nepali novel that portrays the suffering of women in traditional Nepalese society. It was published in 2012 and won the Madan Puraskar, the biggest literary award in Nepal.

“Seto Dharti” (“White Earth” in English) is a Nepali novel written by Amar Neupane that portrays the sad story of Tara, a country girl in Nepal who finds herself married to an adult against her will to uphold social standards and customs.

It was the first book I ever read in my native language so, when I first started reading it, I was taken aback by its captivating storyline and the innocent perspective of Tara, the protagonist.

Tara herself narrates her life, sharing her story from her birth as a girl in a traditional Nepalese society until her last moments. She bravely shares the childhood tragedies and heartbreaks she had buried her entire life.

I vividly recall the horror I felt when I learned of Tara’s marriage when she was only seven years old. It was even more heartbreaking to see her little sister go through the same experience.

The philosophical significance of “white earth” has a profound impact not only on Tara’s life, but to all the widows of her period. Being born as a woman was a burden in the repressive societal norms of ancient Nepal, as they had little individuality.

It was heartbreaking to see how Tara had to abandon all the apparels and bright colors she loved when she was supposed to construct an identity for herself. She was obliged to wear dull white apparels all her life because of her husband’s early death when she was just nine years old.

The envy she felt for nature because it was so vibrant, or the plain jealousy she felt for her close friend Radha for having a healthy spouse, is such a genuine emotion that Neupane has skillfully expressed via his writing.

Tara doesn’t hold back in expressing her feelings, from her crush on a childhood companion to the idea of having an unrestrained affair with men. She did nothing but contemplate and have these kinds of thoughts, but she never acted on them.

Even though I felt bad for Tara, I was more drawn to Radha since she consistently stood up for herself. The protagonist believes that Radha is her closest friend because she is everything Tara is not. She possessed the bravery Tara lacked, and despite sticking to society’s rules, Tara never found peace as Radha did by defying them. They are two opposed poles living in the same society.

Through Tara’s story, Neupane succeeded in conveying the stories of Nepalese women of that era. This tale follows a child who loses their innocence to society’s constricted norms and culture. As the story progresses, you will feel sympathy, grief, angst, pity and a variety of other feelings for Tara.

This book is a glimpse to the awful culture against women and how they have overcome all of its challenges to reach the present.

Edited by Aja Carter and LeSha’ Davis

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SETO DHARTI A Review

Seto Dharti, the prestigious Madan Puraskar winning novel of 2012, is an amazingly well-crafted story written by the Nepali author Amar Neupane. This Nepali novel was first published in March 2012 and promptly emerged on the best seller list in the Nepali market. He has succeeded to unveil the malevolent ritual of child marriage along with a child widow’s dilemma in the oppressively patriarchal Nepali society of the 19th century through the eyes of the protagonist character “Tara.”

This story is based on the life of an ordinary village girl named Tara (meaning Stars). She is a simple girl who lives in her village with her parents and spends her time playing with other kids from her community. Whilst the tale goes on the story takes a turn as she gets married off age just seven years old, the very age at which she cannot even comprehend what marriage even means. The tale is based on the settings of nineteenth-century Nepal when child marriage used to be an unexceptionally common custom. No one around her even tries to read the agony of a child widow who is oblivious to the cynicism that would be directed towards her in the following days.

Tara’s misfortune begins as a child widow after her husband dies in Banaras where he went to complete his studies. This struggle-filled tale further advances and a series of successive complications beset Tara. Gradually, she ends up leaving her husband’s home and returns to her father’s home, being unable to further endure the harassment and suffering imposed by her stepmother-in-law. She tries to live her life in harmony, endeavoring to forget all the agony that life gave her as a juvenile. Afterward, her mother passes away, and then she ends up carrying the burdening

responsibility as the homemaker.

Come adulthood she decides to leave her father’s house and move to Devghat, a religious place for Hindus. At Devghat, she builds a small hut and starts to live a long, unrelieved life. The story mainly attempts to reveal the archaically agonizing cultural practice of child marriage. This story also portrays the pain of a child widow who is forced to live out her entire age without any company. The novel is without any doubt successful in its attempt to narrate the bitter reality of

a dark custom prevalent in Nepal’s fairly recent history, where women are forced to suffer immeasurably after the eradication of the abhorrent Sati custom.

The major characters of this novel are child widows such as Tara and Pabitra. Meanwhile, Yemuna and Gobinda are other significant characters who also have their own stories.

The tale centers primarily around the existence of the female lead Tara and her journey after her marriage by deception as an innocent seven years old girl child.

Whilst she has no idea about her own marriage ceremony, her parents trick her by informing her that a Yajna ceremony is being held instead to worship the gods at their home and actually make her stay in the Jaggya (the holy site constructed for marriage). Later on, she is sent to her in-law’s home telling her that she had to visit a temple. Only on the day after her marriage, she realizes that she was married off to a strange person. She was sound asleep during the time of performing marriage rituals. She could not even discern between reality and dream. She cries a lot remembering her mother. Her aunt tells her what to do and not to do as a daughter-in-law and she is forced to stay for a year in this new home, which is indeed difficult for her as a child. After a year passes, she goes back to her parents’ home. But tragically, she becomes a widow as a mere 9-year-old child. She is summoned by her in-laws without even being informed that her husband has

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passed away. The moment she reaches home, she is forced to accept the fact that her husband is dead. Even though he was an anonymous figure in her life, she was ordered to perform all the rituals in his memory. This was the time when she was formally introduced to her husband on his deathbed as she had yet to see his face.

Afterward, she is taken to the burning ghat where her bangles are broken, clothes and embellishments are removed, hair shaved and she is further compelled to mourn for thirteen days straight. Once all these final rites and mourning rituals were over, she is forced to put on a white cloth to display to society that she is a widow. She comes to her parent’s home

a year later. After coming to her mother, she says that the past is forgotten, and tells Tara that now she was their son. She starts playing with her friends. Govinda, her dear friend teaches her some alphabets. As the story moves further, her mother gives birth to a son and then dies abruptly. Tara cries a lot for the first time in her life by realizing the agony of losing her loved ones, as well as being witness to her maternal uncle taking her nine months brother. Her family takes the child back after realizing that he was not being taken care of properly. On one occasion, Tara sees her brother suckling the breasts of a dog assuming it to be his mother, and then cries in its absence. This scene petrifies her, and so she puts on her mother’s disguise to breastfeed the unaware child.

As time passes on, her friend Pabitra, a child widow like her, departs towards Banaras when a priest comes to their village. Govinda also departs to Banaras for continuing his higher study. So Yemuna becomes her best friend. In

her adolescence, Yemuna is the only source of joy for Tara, as Yemuna voiced her love to her husband and she reciprocated amorously. Afterward, her father gets remarried to a youthful

girl, who later gives birth to a son. Soon enough her stepmother commences her abuse towards Tara and with her father completely under the influence of his new wife, doesn’t even care to feel the pain of his offspring. After a while, her brother also gets married and he lives separately. With her family all but abandoning her, she decides to leave her home for good.

Keeping her last ounce of hope, she spends her night at Yemuna’s home wishing that her little brother whom she raised as her own child would come to bring her back home. However, her voice is echoed only within herself as no one hears her utmost weeping. She is compelled to think that had her mother not passed away, she would not have faced this day. She was now like a directionless abandoned boat in the middle of the sea as she makes her way toward Devghat. She meets a group of people traveling

to Chitwan, and joins them. Once, she arrives at Devghat, she devotes herself to the holy deity. One day she sees the reflection of Govinda in a sage. She often sees dreams of several men in her dream and considers herself like Paanchali (or Drapaudi), the mythical wife of the five Pandava brothers. She then finds Yemuna at Devghat one day who had come there after the death of her husband, and she narrated her story to Tara. Soon after, she becomes a nun.

Then after some time, a female named Gangeswari arrives at the Devghat hermitage, admired by people due to her wisdom along with the funds she donated to the place. One night Gangeswari arrives at Tara’s hut and discloses her real identity as the protagonist’s childhood friend Pabitra. She recounts all the dramatic happenings that occurred in

her life as she passes through various stages of life and ultimately adopts the persona called Gangeswari. She revealed that she was once a prostitute who earned a voluminous fortune at Banaras. Then

she gave up her profession and gave birth to little girl and ended up working as a professor. Later, she returned to Nepal, dedicating the rest of her life to the divine. Tara detested her excessively when she heard the story. She was not able to share it with the Sage, and in time she failed to remember anything. In the later stages of her life, she finally met Govinda, whom she furtively preserved in her heart throughout her entire life.

During the time, I read this heartbreaking tale; I was powerless at stopping my flowing tears as I choked over it again- &-again. The writer has effortlessly illustrated the malevolent practices of

the Nepalese Community which was commonplace in ancient times and the series of tragic consequences on the life of most CHILD WIDOWS LIKE TARA. This novel brought up the unspoken words hidden deep inside the disenfranchised people of the society and surpassed the level of creativity in Nepalese fiction history.

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“If my mere presence brings misfortune to others then how unfortunate I really am for myself! I always need to bring myself forward to me and walk ahead.”

From this statement, we can only fathom the levels of suffering inside Tara, running through the vein that she by herself is not able to escape from. Unfortunately, this is how our society used to wound the fragile heart of an innocent child widow, which ultimately considered a fate that she had to take it to her deathbed.

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Book Review : “Seto Dharti” A Novel of Tears

June 25, 2020, 6:39 p.m.

By Dilip Poudyal

I heard about you time and again. Media spoke a lot; paper as well as an electronic. Several people on my way asked me whether I had seduced you. You were with me. I kept you in my room untouched. You were virgin to me. Several times, I wanted to consume you. But I used several others as my daily food.    “Unheard melodies are sweeter than heard one.”  You remained in me as unheard melody for long. Today I couldn’t control my impulses. Finally, I savored you. Now, there is no mystery. You are seduced.

Seto  Dharti  is a beautiful creation by Amar Neupane. This creation has unfolded the veils of evil practices of child marriage and the predicament of child widow in the Nepali society. The major characters of this novel are child widows such as Tara, Pabitra etc. Yemuna and Gobinda also have their own stories.

The main story is circled in the life of Tara. When she was seven years old, she got married by deception. At that time, she didn’t know about marriage. Her own parents lied her telling that there was worshipping of god at home and made her stay in the Jaggya. Then she was taken to her home telling that she had to go to the temple. Only the next day of her marriage she came to know that she was married with a person whom she hadn’t seen yet. When she had to perform the marriage rites, she was asleep. It was just like a dream.

She cried a lot remembering her mother. Her small mother told her dos and don’ts of a daughter in law in a new house. She had to stay one year in her house. It was so difficult for her to spend the whole year. After a year she went her own home. When she was nine years old, she became widow. She was called at home without informing about the death of her husband. As soon as she reached home, she came to know that her husbands had died. Although, he was an unknown character in her life, she was asked to perform all the rites. It was the first time she had seen the face of her husband in his death bed.

Then she was taken to the burning ghat. Some women broke her bangles. They removed all her ornaments and her clothes. They shaved her hair and made her stay thirteen days of mourning. After the rite was over, she was given a white cloth to wear. After a year she came to her own home. Her parents organized marriage of both the sisters at the same day. After coming to her mother, she had forgotten the past days. Her mother also told her that she could live like a son. She started playing with her friends. Govinda taught her some alphabets. Mother also gave birth of a son. They were all happy. One day her mother died untimely. Tara cried a lot for the first time. Nine months brother was taken by his maternal uncle. Later when they found that he was not being taken care properly, they took the child back.

Once, Tara saw her brother sucking the breasts of a dog. She was scared. When the baby used to cry for mother’s breast, she would pretend her breast feeding. Time passed. Her friend Pabitra ,who was also the child widow, went to Banaras. Govinda, too, went to Banaras for his study. Yemuna became her best friend. When her youth bloomed, yemuna was there to share her days with Tara. Tara used to ask about Yemuna’s love with her husband, she would reply romantically. One day her father got married another wife who was very young. As the time passed she also gave birth of son but it was the son of Tara’ first brother who was in the same age of her.  Slowly and gradually, step mother started misbehaving her. Father was in the grip of her wife.  He didn’t hear the pain of her daughter. Brother also got married and started living alone. Then she decided to leave home forever.

Her life was like a voyage without rudder. She headed towards Devghat. At the night of her escape from home she stayed at Yemuna’s home. The wished as if her brother would come to stop her whom she brought up like her son. But no one came. She joined a group of people who were migrating to Chitwan. After a week she reached to Devghat.  She devoted her life to God. There she saw the image of Goving in the Swamiji. Several time she kept relation with young men in her dream. So, she also confessed that she was  like Drupadi. One day, she met Yemuna, at Devghat. She had also been there after the death of her husband. She told her story to Tara. Later on, she became Sanyasi. Time passed in its own speed.

Once a female named Gangeswari came at Devghat Ahram. She became popular due to her knowledge and the money she brought with her. One night Gangeswari came to Tara’s hut and revealed her true identity. She was no other than Pabitra. She was Tara’s best friend who had gone to  Banaras with a young priest who came in their village. Then, Pabitra told her story how she passed different stages of life and finally became Gangeswari. She also told that she became a prostitute and earned a lot of wealth while she was at Banaras. Then she left this profession and gave birth of a daughter who was a professor at the moment. Finally she came to Nepal changing her name to devote her rest of the life in God. When Tara first heard this story, she hated her too much. But she could not tell the Swamiji. Later she forgot everything.  At last she also met Govinda whom she secretly kept in her heart throughout her life.

While reading this novel, my throat gagged several times. I couldn’t control my emotion. Though the story is fabricated with writer’s primary imagination, it depicts a picture of social evil and its adverse effects on the lives of many Taras and Pavitras of Nepali society. The narration of the story is tradition. However, the writer has given the space to the characters that have been lost in many writings. It speaks the voice of voiceless. Despite some incongruities, this is one of the best creations in the contemporary Nepali literature.

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is a Nepali novelist, poet, and a story writer born in 2034 BS, Chitwan, Nepal. He explores the complementary versions of social reality of the Nepali society in his literary works Seto Dharti (2068). He is trying to depict women's issues in which their characters are concerned with the patriarchal social norms, values, and their quest for a just society. They want to live their life as per their choice. Neupane looks at the issue of a child widow in Seto Dharti. According to the writer, the widow has described her own history in the text. The child who is married to the unknown person even does not see the face of her husband.

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Seto Dharti by Amar Neupane

A novel based on the story of the life of a nine year old child widow, Seto Dharti is written by a young Nepali novelist Amar Neupane . One of the most successful books in Nepali literature, Seto Dharti also won the most prestigious literary award, Madan Puraskar, in the year 2068 BS. The book is successful in presenting the painful story of the child widow Tara . Her life and the difficulties she experience in her journey of life is beautifully portrayed in the book.

This three hundred and ninety pages book will not let you get bored because of its length as the story, so beautifully written, keeps you hooked to it until the very end. The central character of the novel, as you can guess by now, is Tara, a nine year old widow who was married at the age of seven. The little girl who doesn’t even know the meaning of marriage or death has been widowed at such a young age and is forced to live with the humiliation and discrimination of the society towards the widow at such a young age.

The book received praise not only from its readers but also from critics giving the book a good review within a short period of time. It is amazing how the writer being born as a male in a traditional and male dominated society of Nepal was capable of speaking about the hardships and feelings experienced by a widowed woman. This only proves the imaginary and creative talent of the writer who, although being a male, was able to observe and understand the discrimination, hardships and the emotions of the widows in our country which is usually overlooked by most of the people including females.

The book that has been successful in portraying the painful and hard life of a young widow, Seto Dharti by Amar Neupane is a must-read.

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Seto Dharti

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आफ्नो पहिलो आख्यान पानीको घामका लागि पद्मश्री सम्मान प्राप्त गरेका अमर न्यौपानेको दोस्रो उपन्यास सेतो धरती एक बालविधवाको दर्दनाक कथा हो । यसमा मुख्य पात्र ‘तारा’ ले अठहत्तर वर्षको उमेरमा जन्मदेखिको आफ्नो विडम्बनापूर्ण कथा भनेकी छन् । नेपालमा ठूलो भुइँचालो आएको वर्ष ‘नब्बे साल’ बाट आरम्भ भएको उपन्यास भुइँचालोभै सुरू भएर भुइँचालोभै अन्त्य हुन्छ । सामाजिक संस्कारका कारण जीवनभर अभिशप्त भएर नियतिको सजायँ भोगेकी ‘तारा’ का जीवनका विडम्बनाहरुसँग अन्य पात्रहरुको पनि विडम्बनापूर्ण कथा जोडिएर आउँछ । आञ्चलिकतासँगै सुन्दर भाषामा लेखिएको सेतो धरती २०६८ को मदन पुरस्कार प्राप्त कृति हो - Goodreads

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आफ्नो पहिलो आख्यान पानीको घामका लागि पद्मश्री सम्मान प्राप्त गरेका अमर न्यौपानेको दोस्रो उपन्यास सेतो धरती एक बालविधवाको दर्दनाक कथा हो । यसमा मुख्य पात्र ‘तारा’ ले अठहत्तर वर्षको उमेरमा जन्मदेखिको आफ्नो विडम्बनापूर्ण कथा भनेकी छन् । नेपालमा ठूलो भुइँचालो आएको वर्ष ‘नब्बे साल’ बाट आरम्भ भएको उपन्यास भुइँचालोभै सुरू भएर भुइँचालोभै अन्त्य हुन्छ । सामाजिक संस्कारका कारण जीवनभर अभिशप्त भएर नियतिको सजायँ भोगेकी ‘तारा’ का जीवनका विडम्बनाहरुसँग अन्य पात्रहरुको पनि विडम्बनापूर्ण कथा जोडिएर आउँछ । आञ्चलिकतासँगै सुन्दर भाषामा लेखिएको सेतो धरती २०६८ को मदन पुरस्कार प्राप्त कृति हो ।

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Seto Dharati सेतो धरती [Seto Dharati] by Amar Neupane, अमर न्यौपाने

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