Nepali literature goes international with a recent win at the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry in the US
Alok Vaid-Menon, the gender non-conforming poet, is performing live in Kathmandu this week
A Nepali emergency physician with a passion for Urdu couplets wows Pakistanis
…To hell with poetry, with memories, with my mother’s food- maybe not my mother’s biryani- To hell the memory of turning nineteen in quarantine.…
Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her eyes. Everywhere around us were…
Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s 110th birth anniversary is being marked on Sunday 27 October. Photo: KAMAL DIXITKalidasa’s Sanskrit masterpiece…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali,…
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…
Pic: SIKUMA RAISunmaya Do you know something?These are the first lines of Bina Theeng Tamang’s poem, Dhunwa ra Ama (Smoke and Mother). The…
Madrasa education needs to be improved to uplift Nepal’s Muslim community
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…
Photo: SABITA SHRESTHABorn in 1980 in Pokhara, Sarita Tiwari is no new name in the Nepali literary scene. She’s been writing diligently for over…
