Finding a permanent home in poetry
Nepali literature goes international with a recent win at the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry in the US
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The most controversial pronoun is ‘we’, not ‘they’
Alok Vaid-Menon, the gender non-conforming poet, is performing live in Kathmandu this week
Nepali doctor's love for Urdu poetry
A Nepali emergency physician with a passion for Urdu couplets wows Pakistanis
Young Nepali poets in search of poetic license
…To hell with poetry, with memories, with my mother’s food- maybe not my mother’s biryani- To hell the memory of turning nineteen in quarantine....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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