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Date: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM
Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Book Review: Memoirs of the War
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Book Review: Memoirs of the War
It is a book based on ten years People's War of Nepal. The writer Shova Kattel is a State committee member of UNCP-Maoist. She is known as a revolutionary party worker within the party. She joined the student movement when she was 13. She worked also in women organisation at different levels. When the great spring thunder– The Great People's War broke out in Nepal, she joined it as a whole timer party activist.During the People's war she held many key posts in party organisation and people's army. She played the role of a skilled Battalion commissar. She lost her husband Comrade Samar (i.e. War) during the People's War. Samar was a very a brilliant leader of the regional party committee.
There are 16 topics in this book. Most of the topics of this book are concentrated on the events and experience which she gained during the People's War. But this book reflects not only her personal feelings and experience, it is not only the eyewitness accounts of Peoples War, it is a deep study of People's War in a literary form. It reflects also the two line struggle within the Maoist Party.
This book is full of revolutionary enthusiasm and confidence. It reflects the tyrannical picture of reactionary regime. The old regime declared the `the state of emergency' and lunched a massive suppression upon the Nepalese people. At that time the state terror was in its climax. The writer was also captured by royal army and was kept in different prison houses.
This book is an artistic document of Peoples War. It has a great significance both from political and literary perspectives. The arrangement of language and style of writing is very interesting and attractive. Shova Kattle has described the events and facts of the battlefields just like a telecast. As we read, we have the impression that we are not reading a book but we are listening the live telecast of the battlefield. Though it is a collection of articles in different topics, we feel that it is a poetic novel based on People's War and of the situation there after.
Indeed, it is a book of deep feeling, emotion and dedication. It is an artistic reflection of ten years People's War.In Nepali literature, there are so many literary books published on People's War. We have many books of memoirs– collections as well as solo writing. It is one of the best books among them. This book has a profound significance historically, ideologically as well as aesthetically.
It stresses honestly and bravely that a phase of People's War has ended in the name of peace and constitution. The Maoist party has declared its end, but in reality the People's War has not ended. It has begun in its new revolutionary colour. It has begun in its new epoch. Mohan Baidhya– the senior vice Chairman of UCPN( Maoist) and a well known Marxist aesthetician has mentioned in the preface of this book : "It is a book of great significance, it has raised the flag of revolution."
Really, Shova Kattel has raised the flag of revolution. This book is a real and red document to know the role played by the women in the ten years People's War. No surrender with reactionaries, no compromise with reformists and revisionists, but strong confidence on the continuation of revolution–this is the gist of this book.
Palash Biswas
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