Tag: #nepali literature
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Digitising the savant calligrapher
Janakavi Durga Lal Shrestha’s handwriting is now a font
Revolution song
English translation of Chuden Kabimo’s novel tells the story of Darjeeling’s Gorkhaland Movement
The Man from Karnali
Author Buddhisagar. Photo: BUDDHISAGAR/FACEBOOKBuddhisagar’s novel Karnali Blues starts with a father, who says after seeing his newborn son for…
New venue showcasing Nepali society, literature and art
All photos: ROSE SCHWIETZWhen a woman carries herself around in the streets or even at her workplace or her home, she is constantly hounded by…
Poet of the Nepali soul
Madhav Prasad Ghimire 1919-2020. Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhen national poet laureate Madhav Prasad Ghimire died on Tuesday 18 August at the…
Bimala Tumkhewa: Putting kinema on the map of Nepal
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her…
Arko, the Nepali minstrel from Bengal
If you like Nepali folk songs, you must have come across a hirsute man on Youtube, singing old, familiar songs with an unusual accent and lilt.…
Writing about Nepal from afar
Photo: SAKINA ABIDIWhen asked how he balances writing about Kathmandu while living abroad, Samrat Upadhyay asks: “What do we mean by…
Nepal (and international) Literature Festival
Photo: NEPAL LITERATURE FESTIVALThe Nepal Literature Festival (NLF) has expanded in scope and content since it started eight years ago, and the…
Canadian's missionary zeal for Nepali
On the morning of 31 October 1954, 29-year-old William J Burke stepped on a red-gold carpet of fallen maple leaves outside his home as he made…
Toya Gurung: Nepali literature's Thulnani
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen I first saw Toya Gurung's name in an anthology of poems, I thought she had to be Japanese. I had known of no Gurung…
Maya Thakuri: Writing between the lines
Photos: SIKUMA RAIBorn on July 2, 1946 in Lucknow, Maya Thakuri’s first poems were hate letters to people who mistreated her. “They used to call…
Written locally, read globally
WRITERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Assamese writer Rita Chaudhury (above, right) at a panel discussion at the the 22nd Nepal International Book Fair in…
Shivani's Kathmandu
Shivani Singh Tharu took nine years to write the thriller Kathmandu Ma Ek Dinhttps://youtu.be/hmpBALWFR_8Shivani Singh Tharu always knew she was…