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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.

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

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

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

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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