सहरमा नवीन प्यासी
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The piece recalls a man who once told the narrator with pride that even if his corpse went unclaimed, the flies that landed on it would be from this city. The narrator asks what the city took from him—his smile, tears, dreams, or his will to live. The list of losses is left unfinished.
कुनै दिन उसले मलाई शानका साथ भनेथ्यो – ’बाबु, कुनै दिन मेरो लास बेवारिसे बनेछ भने पनि मेरो लासमा भन्किने झिँगाहरू यही सहरका हुनेछन् !’ थाहा छैन,- के-के खोस्यो यो सहरले ऊ बाट ? मुस्कान, आँसु वा सपना खोस्यो कि ? खोस्यो दिनदहाडै उसको अनुहारबाट जिजीविषा ? अथवा खोस्यो उसले जुनीभरिलाई बोकेर हिँडेको सम्बन्ध […]