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A nostalgic Hindustani novel

There is not much to add about Amitabha Bagchi’s Half  The Night Is Gone that has not already been said. The winner...

The genius of Shakuntalā in Nepali

Kalidasa’s Sanskrit masterpiece Abhijnanasakuntalam based on the story of Shakuntala in the Mahabharata was written nearly 1,500 years ago. It was first...

The great feast of death

R ight before by-elections for a seat in the Parliament, the corpse of a man called Bishweshwar or ‘Bishu’ is found below...

Shanti Chaudhary: Poet-at-large

When Shanti Chaudhary was born in Kathmandu on 28 December, 1955, she possibly was the first Tharu person to be born in...

Muna Gurung

Novelist returns to non-fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hUzmFktVAsHis hair graying and receding, his gaunt and weathered face creased with laughter wrinkles, Narayan Wagle looks out over the city from...

Shivani's Kathmandu

Shivani Singh Tharu took nine years to write the thriller Kathmandu Ma Ek Dinhttps://youtu.be/hmpBALWFR_8Shivani Singh Tharu always knew she was born to...

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