Janakavi Durga Lal Shrestha’s handwriting is now a font
English translation of Chuden Kabimo’s novel tells the story of Darjeeling’s Gorkhaland Movement
Author Buddhisagar. Photo: BUDDHISAGAR/FACEBOOKBuddhisagar’s novel Karnali Blues starts with a father, who says after seeing his newborn son for…
All photos: ROSE SCHWIETZWhen a woman carries herself around in the streets or even at her workplace or her home, she is constantly hounded by…
Madhav Prasad Ghimire 1919-2020. Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhen national poet laureate Madhav Prasad Ghimire died on Tuesday 18 August at the…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her…
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.…
Photo: SAKINA ABIDIWhen asked how he balances writing about Kathmandu while living abroad, Samrat Upadhyay asks: “What do we mean by…
Photo: NEPAL LITERATURE FESTIVALThe Nepal Literature Festival (NLF) has expanded in scope and content since it started eight years ago, and the…
On the morning of 31 October 1954, 29-year-old William J Burke stepped on a red-gold carpet of fallen maple leaves outside his home as he made…
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…
Photos: SIKUMA RAIBorn on July 2, 1946 in Lucknow, Maya Thakuri’s first poems were hate letters to people who mistreated her. “They used to call…
WRITERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Assamese writer Rita Chaudhury (above, right) at a panel discussion at the the 22nd Nepal International Book Fair in…
Shivani Singh Tharu took nine years to write the thriller Kathmandu Ma Ek Dinhttps://youtu.be/hmpBALWFR_8Shivani Singh Tharu always knew she was…
