Our pick of Nepali books to read over Dasain
Yogmaya by Neelam Karki Niharika Neelam Karki Niharika's 2018 Madan Puraskar-winning Yogmaya is a compelling historical fiction on women's rights and freedom...
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Taking Nepali literature to the world
A character in Buddhisagar’s bestselling 2010 novel कर्नाली ब्लुज (Karnali Blues) has the habit of adding “हजुरको” (‘hajurko’) at the end of his...
The story of books in Nepal
The sheer size of Kumar Nagarkoti’s 'कल्प-ग्रन्थ' (Kalpa-Grantha) is staggering: 777 pages and weighing 1.5kg. This is a boulder of a book. Packaged...
Maya Thakuri: Writing between the lines
Born on July 2, 1946 in Lucknow, Maya Thakuri’s first poems were hate letters to people who mistreated her. “They used to...
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