Literature

WARY

NICK DAWSONScraps clutched at What was once a world, through shaking fingers, falls. Territory, mapped and scouted, with a shout swells and…

WAYNE AMTZIS

Five poems by Wayne Amtzis and Purna Bahadur Vaidya

BLOODSCRIPT We share a cage, a cliff, a country. A diminishing ground draws us in as it sinks and surrounds. Walls stand, roofless, sky-lights…

Nepal Quartet

Exile A brute gauntlet. A widening moat Twice-barren fields seeded with stone nourish those who'll never leave What distant castle commands…

Chandrakala Newar

Voice of conscience

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Kumud Devkota’s

Kathmandu of exclusion

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Organisers for the arts

Given the conditions that artists in Nepal work under, it is a wonder that they produce art at all. I have written about this before, elsewhere,…

MANJESHREE THHAPA

Basanta Thapa

Of songs and philosophy

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Other voices poems in national languages

Some of the truest literary expressions of Nepali life today are coming not from works in the Nepali language, but from poems and stories…

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Uday Niroula

A poet of ideas

Buddha Sayami

The voice of the times

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Purna Bahadur Vaidya

One and the world

Ramesh Tufan

A voice for liberation

MANJUSHREE THAPA

The interior world of Avinash Shrestha

Avinash Shrestha writes some of the most interior, emotionally charged poetry being written today by any male poet. Eschewing the righteous,…

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Ahuti’s call to arms

Writing in the tradition of committed Marxist poetry, Ahuti captures the sorrows and struggles of Nepal's most vulnerable subaltern classes:…

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Can we now go back to being human?

One of the effects of war is the emptying-out of personal content from people's lives: When security is a daily concern, what energy can we…

Manjul with the masses

The poet Manjul began his career as a committed communist worker, traveling from village to village with singer Raamesh, sounding out songs…

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Govinda Bratrman-Poem For Peace

Govinda Bartaman's poetic voice is gaining strength with experience.

MANJUSHREE THAPA

My mother Bhagirathaa

KHAGENDRA SANGRAULA

MANJUSHREE THAPA

My bundle of joy

Third in the British Council Short Story Competition (15-18 category)

TRISHNA RANA

Dreams

Winner of British Council Short Story Competition (15-18)

KAMESH REGMI

The Naked Truth

Second in the British Council Short Story (15-18 category)

PRADIPTA SJB RANA

Momila

Both interior and outspoken:

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Kanchi’s Tale

Second in the British Council Short Story Competition (18-35)

GEETANJALI LAMA

Life Left Lifeless

Tied for third place in the British Council Short Story Competition (15-18)

SNEH RAJBHANDARI

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