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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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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...

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...

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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...

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