Ms Renuka Khatiwada is a doctoral student at The University of Texas at El Paso, USA. She is a photographer and documentary maker. Her photographs have been exhibited in Nepal and abroad. She works with Prof. Gupto as a Director of Photography and researcher on visual cultural studies. Her current project is a soon-to-be-released book Diary of a Teenage Wife.
I am always thankful to my gurus Prof. Shreedhar Lohani for enriching my knowledge of art and philosophy, literature and literary theory and Prof. Abhi Subedi for interacting with me for decades on art and literature of the valley. They both are my best companions in academia.
Those who traveled with me during the making of the documentaries, for writing, and for engaging in indolence by watching art and culture of the city are the ones who inspire me to work. Along with Renuka Khatiwada, Salil Subedi, Abhas Rajopadhyaya, Rajan Phelu also have been my co-walkers at times.
Their enthusiasm to work with me are exemplary. Mr. Madhab Maharjan has always encouraged me to write books; I thank him for guiding me through the world of publication.
My family from parents to grand daughters provide best education to me. Some read with me, some edit, some provide professional advice, some walk past smilingly. They help so that I write. My grand daughter, Nieva has promised to write books like me and I think Anya will be inspired by her elder sister.
My research in the field of myth and art has three fold experiences. I walk, make documentaries, and offer courses. Walking is cognitive knowledge with body in motion, making documentaries is visualizing and then retrospecting in quietude, and offering courses is finding spaces to discourse with students.
Divine is an idea. It is the myth of the highest order, which encompasses the beautiful and the grotesque, demonic and godly when the double bind seeps in to shape thinking. The divine cannot exist if the profane and sacred are decoupled. The divinity of knowledge is the divinity of sexual body, of sublime as the terror of nature. The idea of the city of Kathmandu is attributed by such double binds spread in the seasons. Our work has found more than four and more than six seasons. The chilly wind of dark nights in the forest hill emits the smell of summer flowers; the deep opening of the clouds in the rainy days sensualizes ingenuous shivering in the body. Season is an idea.
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