Retired civil servant Homnath comes up with poetry collection

By Our Correspondent,Janakpur, July 25; Educated and healthy citizens are essential for the development of society. This theme is reflected in the collection of poetry ‘Aatmiki Andhakaar’. The collection illustrates that conscious and educated citizens can play a significant role in reducing social evils, harmful traditions, and negative customs.

Hailing from Aiselukharka-3, Khotang district, Homnath Khatri has addressed these issues and suggested solutions through his poetic creations. 

The poems highlight the social problems related to bad habits, traditions, character, behaviour, employment conditions, discrimination, and conflict. They emphasise that change is possible through educated and conscious individuals.

Hom Dimmali, the literary pseudonym of Khatri, who is a retired civil servant, has included 143 poems in this collection. Now residing in Mahalaxmi Municipality-9, Lalitpur, Dimmali has composed thought-provoking poems in the collection of poem. 

Through his poems, the poet addresses a wide range of issues economic, social, political, employment, good governance, corruption, human tendencies, morality, dissatisfaction, foreign obsession, misconduct, injustice, and cruelty. Poet Khatri has drawn upon his past experiences and present feelings, closely observing both national and international current affairs, growing social evils, casteism, materialism, gangsterism, extremism, and the declining social, economic, political, and educational conditions.

He said that while researching the causes of increasing injustice, cruelty, immorality, and corruption, such as rape, murder, violence, depravity, unethical behaviour, intolerance, and anarchy, he concluded that the root of these issues lies in the lack of proper education and spiritual knowledge.

He said, “If people had received a good education,

they would have followed truth and goodness instead of falsehood and evil. Because this has not happened, the world has plunged into superstition, confusion, and darkness.

That’s why I believe the pursuit of good education is the urgent need of our time.”