Seriously funny political humour
The Soviets had just invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring pro-democracy movement. A year later, the Czechs were in...
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Our pick of Nepali books to read over Dasain
Yogmaya by Neelam Karki Niharika Neelam Karki Niharika's 2018 Madan Puraskar-winning Yogmaya is a compelling historical fiction on women's rights and freedom...
No time like the past
The past often feels like a foreign country, as British author LP Hartley once famously wrote, because ‘they do things differently there’.There...
Change on a Himalayan scale
German journalist Peter Hinze always had a fascination for the Himalaya, and later for trail-running. On one of his trips to Nepal, at...
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...
Pandemic revives reading culture in Nepal
Contrary to industry projections, paper book sales during the pandemic in Nepal have seen healthy growth after an initial setback. Stores were...
The climate crisis in fiction and non-fiction
Born in Calcutta, and now a New York-based writer, Amitav Ghosh approaches the subject of the global environmental crisis through two literary genres: fiction...
Love of books goes online
In May 2020, in the middle of the first lockdown in Nepal, Jeeya Shrestha discovered Bookstagram, a niche community of readers on...
The monsoon, and nature’s arithmetic
Rudyard Kipling's 1893 short story ‘The Bridge Builders’ surprised me. It is not about how noble British men brought ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’...
14 books to read, gift, love this Valentine’s
In the middle of love stories, I pause to sigh and wonder. How different these people are from me, yet how well I...
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