Janakavi Durga Lal Shrestha’s handwriting is now a font
English translation of Chuden Kabimo’s novel tells the story of Darjeeling’s Gorkhaland Movement
Author Buddhisagar. Photo: BUDDHISAGAR/FACEBOOKBuddhisagar’s novel Karnali Blues starts with a father, who says after seeing his newborn son for…
When a woman carries herself around in the streets or even at her workplace or her home, she is constantly hounded by the anxiety of protecting…
Madhav Prasad Ghimire 1919-2020. Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhen national poet laureate Madhav Prasad Ghimire died on Tuesday 18 August at the…
Born in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her hard-hitting journalistic…
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.…
When asked how he balances writing about Kathmandu while living abroad, Samrat Upadhyay asks: “What do we mean by authenticity? According to…
The Nepal Literature Festival (NLF) has expanded in scope and content since it started eight years ago, and the 2019 edition this weekend will…
On the morning of 31 October 1954, 29-year-old William J Burke stepped on a red-gold carpet of fallen maple leaves outside his home as he made…
When 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 women writers. “Toyé…
Born on July 2, 1946 in Lucknow, Maya Thakuri’s first poems were hate letters to people who mistreated her. “They used to call me all sorts of…
WRITERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Assamese writer Rita Chaudhury (above, right) at a panel discussion at the the 22nd Nepal International Book Fair in…
Shivani Singh Tharu took nine years to write the thriller Kathmandu Ma Ek DinShivani Singh Tharu always knew she was born to be a storyteller.…
