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Australia’s writing diplomat

Felicity Volk is Australia’s ambassador to Nepal, but many may not know that she is also a novelist. Long before joining Australia's...

Lain Singh Bangdel’s legacy lives on

On 15 September, a UK-based art promotion site MutualArt sent an auction notification to its over 500,000 members. For sale was a rare 1955 watercolour...

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...

Muna Gurung

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...

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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...

2019 shortlist announced for DSC Prize

The 2019 shortlist of books for the annual DSC prize for South Asian Literature has been announced. Half the Night is Gone...

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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Anita Tuladhar: The Gardener of Small Stories

I encountered Anita Tuladhar in a black and white 1985 studio photo. She stands with writer Toya Gurung and singer Aruna Lama....

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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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Arundhati and Shahidul write to each other

Indian author Arundhati Roy wrote a letter to imprisoned Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam on the 100th day of his incarceration on 14...