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Coffee guff from Korea
Prawin Adhikari’s translation breathes new life into the book on Narayan Wagle’s writing life
With love, labour and writing
South Asian writers write about their craft in new book
Writing for young minds
“It is important for children to see themselves or someone who looks like them in books they read”
Taking Nepali literature to the world
A character in Buddhisagar’s bestselling 2010 novel कर्नाली ब्लुज (Karnali Blues) has the habit of adding “हजुरको” (‘hajurko’) at the end of his…
The lost Nepali translation of Harry Potter
With 1,084,170 words, 198 chapters, seven books, one play and a billion-dollar franchise, the Harry Potter series revived the reading habit of…
About women by women
It is a privilege to be able to read, understand and appreciate the depth of women’s writing and the expanse of their ideas. But it was several…
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…
Read and let read
The erosion of a reading culture in Nepal does not bode well for democracy
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…
Writing about writing
Learning the craft in the fertile spiritual atmosphere of the Himalayan Writers Workshop
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…
Nepali calligrapher at large
Photo: Sworup RanjitBoston-based Nepali artist Sneha Shrestha once laid out an installation on the floor so that people could walk all over it.…
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…
Anita Tuladhar: The Gardener of Small Stories
I encountered Anita Tuladhar in a black and white 1985 studio photo. She stands with writer Toya Gurung and singer Aruna Lama. She is wearing a…
Kathmandu’s Ranjana renaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFNPi-Yt_cOver the Tihar festival this month, while most people were busy worshipping crows, dogs and cows, an…