Tag: #poet
Articles tagged with #poet
Pragati Rai: Her Own Writer
Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
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.…
Nibha Shah: Nepali poetry’s mansara
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali,…
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…