January 2021
Lightroom Conversation
Niranjan Kunwar: Queering the story
Photo: SAGAR CHHETRI hen Niranjan Kunwar talks about Bollywood, his body language shifts: he sits tall, his face brightens up, […]
January 30, 2021
March 2020
Lightroom Conversation
Pragati Rai: Her Own Writer
Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALA s a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. […]
March 20, 2020
February 2020
Lightroom Conversation
Bimala Tumkhewa: Putting kinema on the map of Nepal
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALA orn in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular […]
February 7, 2020
December 2019
Opinion
Usha Sherchan: Humming a tune of her own
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALA When Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her […]
December 13, 2019
October 2019
Opinion
Nibha Shah: Nepali poetry’s mansara
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALA orn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early […]
October 4, 2019
August 2019
Lightroom Conversation
Pancha Kumari Pariyar: Still She Rises
Photos: SIKUMA RAI hen the stalks of rice grow taller, you must come back here again,” she says. “They move […]
August 16, 2019
June 2019
Lightroom Conversation
Shanti Chaudhary: Poet-at-large
hen Shanti Chaudhary was born in Kathmandu on 28 December, 1955, she possibly was the first Tharu person to be […]
June 28, 2019
May 2019
Lightroom Conversation
Bina Theeng Tamang: More than a maichyang
Pic: SIKUMA RAI unmaya Do you know something? These are the first lines of Bina Theeng Tamang’s poem, Dhunwa ra Ama (Smoke […]
May 31, 2019
April 2019
Lightroom Conversation
Anita Tuladhar: The Gardener of Small Stories
STORYTELLER: Anita Tuladhar today (above) with her mother (left). encountered Anita Tuladhar in a black and white 1985 studio photo. […]
April 26, 2019
March 2019
Featured Videos
Toya Gurung: Nepali literature’s Thulnani
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALA hen I first saw Toya Gurung‘s name in an anthology of poems, I thought she had to be […]
March 22, 2019