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- 1. Presented by: Kritika manandhar Chandana shrestha Samriddhi shakya Yalisha shrestha Sangita tiwari
- 2. About the Author Character sketch Summary Interpretation Critical thinking Conclusion
- 3. Parashu pradhan, born in 1943 A.D (2000 B.S) in bhojpur, is one of the Nepal’s short story writers. He draws characters in is stories from various of Nepalese social strata. He potraits them with subtelty and vigor and delves deep into their pshyce. His first published short story was Mero kothako Aakhabata, Peri samundrama Asatune Surya and others.
- 4. He has also published two novels: Sabai Birsieka Anuharharu (All Forgotten Faces, 1967) and Raat Jo Paglanchha (The Night That Melts). He has received a number of prestigious awards including Uttam Shanti Puraskar (1994) and Chhinnalata Sammaan (1996).
- 5. Migrant from village to city to work as tourist guide. Krishna, is a man of big dreams. He dreams of going abroad. Deep interest in learning English. He could even explain the culture and custom in his own way. He doesn’t care about his wife, has less sentiments
- 6. The Telegram on the Table, relates the "discordant" thoughts ruminating in the mind of man named Krishna. ten years earlier he moved from a small village to large city where he lives in an inadequate, over-priced apartment. He is menially employed as a tour guide. Krishna is enamored with the west and at the same time expresses a deep, prideful connection to his own culture. He dreams about traveling to New York with blue-eyed tourist girls, but also expresses a desire to return to his village in Nepal where he would dance to folk songs with old friends
- 7. Early in the story, a friend offers condolences to an emotionless Krishna for some great tragedy that has occurred in his life. A wife that he abandoned ten years earlier,had recently died. Unmoved by this tragedy, he thinks that "perhaps" he is happy, for now he is totally free to "achieve what he aimed for. But after a week he finally realizes that he had become stone hearted and emotional less person. Angry with himself he starts to cry not as a mourner but as a person unable to express his feelings.
- 8. This presents the bitter reality of Nepalese youths who come to town from their villages and they never like to go back. They dream for the foreign country and though there is heavenly pleasure there. But in reality there is also struggle. It also shows that we should learn to live with reality about not in dream.
- 9. Many people think that their life, would be happy if they get go to in the foreign country. But Pradhan has exaggerated. Some issues here in his chapter. How could a person forget his wife completely? How could he be happy at the death of this wife? There is no any evidence about that bad relationship between Krishna and his wife. Man can dream for better future but he can't forget the present completely.
- 10. A clear portrait of the conditions that many Nepalese people have been facing in the society for a long time. Societal and family pressures on individuals. "No matter how big your dreams and aspirations become, always take time to realize the cost of fulfilling those dreams and aspirations.“ Convey that family comes first and they can never be obstacle for success. One can never feel happy and hide his emotions when he looses his near dear ones.