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Finding a permanent home in poetry
Nepali literature goes international with a recent win at the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry in the US
The most controversial pronoun is ‘we’, not ‘they’
Alok Vaid-Menon, the gender non-conforming poet, is performing live in Kathmandu this week
Nepali doctor's love for Urdu poetry
A Nepali emergency physician with a passion for Urdu couplets wows Pakistanis
Young Nepali poets in search of poetic license
…To hell with poetry, with memories, with my mother’s food- maybe not my mother’s biryani- To hell the memory of turning nineteen in quarantine.…
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…
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…
Usha Sherchan: Humming a tune of her own
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her eyes. Everywhere around us were…
The genius of Shakuntalā in Nepali
Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s 110th birth anniversary is being marked on Sunday 27 October. Photo: KAMAL DIXITKalidasa’s Sanskrit masterpiece…
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,…
Shanti Chaudhary: Poet-at-large
When Shanti Chaudhary was born in Kathmandu on 28 December, 1955, she possibly was the first Tharu person to be born in the capital. Her father…
Bina Theeng Tamang: More than a maichyang
Pic: SIKUMA RAISunmaya Do you know something?These are the first lines of Bina Theeng Tamang’s poem, Dhunwa ra Ama (Smoke and Mother). The…
Nepali Muslims on the margins
Madrasa education needs to be improved to uplift Nepal’s Muslim community
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…
Factory of Questions: Sarita Tiwari
Photo: SABITA SHRESTHABorn in 1980 in Pokhara, Sarita Tiwari is no new name in the Nepali literary scene. She’s been writing diligently for over…