page_title: Vishnu Raj Atreya
section_title: Latosaathi Title
hierarchical_section_title: Vishnu Raj Atreya / Latosaathi Title
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr Atreya received Pradesh Ratna Award for his contribution on Language and Literature
context_page_description: Vishnu Raj Atreya was a Nepali writer and poet, who wrote in Nepali language, Sanskrit language and Awadhi language. He used the title Latosaathi in his poetry works since 1963 A.D. He is considered to be the first person to start writing Haiku in Sanskrit language.
context_section_description: Although his name is Vishnu Raj Atreya, he introduced himself as 'Latosaathi' since 1963 A.D. He believed that literature itself is mute and a person adds life and sense to it. This might be the reason that he added 'Latosaathi' as his literary title. He has expressed this view in his first short-epic 'कपिलवस्तु' (Kapilvastu) as:
  
  
   
  "लिपि छ मूक लेखेनी मूक लेखक पनि स्वयं म मूकै छु।"
   
  The script is silent, the writing is silent and me being the main writer am also silent.
   
  Poet of the nation, Madhav Prasad Ghimire writes his view on Atreya's Latosathi title as: "I think Atreya was influenced from द्वा सुपर्णा सयुजा सखाया (dwa suparna sayuja sakhaya) from Rigveda. The metaphore of that bird of Rigveda is life that undergoes karma and god who looks after as a witness. As such, Latosathi is that clever friend who looks after his friends as a witness. If I would ask him about this, he would not speak but write sarcasm on deformed society and social Distortion and simply keep on laughing."
caption: Dr. Atreya was awarded Pradesh Ratna on 2019 for his contribution on Language and Literature.
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