Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
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: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali,…
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…
