Encounter with Padam Gautam

Padam Gautam, one of the promising young poets of Nepal, is nowadays more interested towards writing essays. He started writing poems, and later turned to composing Gazal. Gazal has been very popular among the young writers. Padam says, “It takes less time to compose Gazal than other genre. Similarly, young generation is more inclined to this type of writing, as it is blended with love themes”.

Though Gazal was old genre in Nepal, the young people like Padam Gautam revived Gazals through writing it in lyrical meter. Writing in meter seems more classical, but for Gazal, it has been appeared as modern. Padam said, “Gazal is not only for reading, but is mainly for listening. Writing in meter helps to those who want to sing.”

Padam looks quite optimistic towards the young writers. He said, “They are crazy to do something new, and doing well. Naturally, the younger are smarter always.” Padam plans to do some serious writing in the days to come.