Pragati Rai: Her Own Writer
As a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that when a daughter...
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Bimala Tumkhewa: Putting kinema on the map of Nepal
Born in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her hard-hitting journalistic articles...
Arko, the Nepali minstrel from Bengal
If you like Nepali folk songs, you must have come across a hirsute man on Youtube, singing old, familiar songs with an...
Usha Sherchan: Humming a tune of her own
When Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her eyes. Everywhere around us were open...
Nibha Shah: Nepali poetry’s mansara
Born in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali, and later...
Pancha Kumari Pariyar: Still She Rises
“When the stalks of rice grow taller, you must come back here again,” she says. “They move in the wind like waves...
Toya Gurung: Nepali literature's Thulnani
When I first saw Toya Gurung's name in an anthology of poems, I thought she had to be Japanese. I had known of...
The mother of all pickles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYmgDIkIIEwLike many Nepali housemothers, Bhimi Gurung spent her life preparing three meals a day and bringing up her children. Still, she felt...
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