Writing for young minds
“It is important for children to see themselves or someone who looks like them in books they read”
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Taking Nepali literature to the world
A character in Buddhisagar’s bestselling 2010 novel कर्नाली ब्लुज (Karnali Blues) has the habit of adding “हजुरको” (‘hajurko’) at the end of his...
The lost Nepali translation of Harry Potter
With 1,084,170 words, 198 chapters, seven books, one play and a billion-dollar franchise, the Harry Potter series revived the reading habit of millennials everywhere....
About women by women
It is a privilege to be able to read, understand and appreciate the depth of women’s writing and the expanse of their...
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...
Read and let read
The erosion of a reading culture in Nepal does not bode well for democracy
Writing about Nepal from afar
When asked how he balances writing about Kathmandu while living abroad, Samrat Upadhyay asks: “What do we mean by authenticity? According to...
Writing about writing
Learning the craft in the fertile spiritual atmosphere of the Himalayan Writers Workshop
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...
Nepali calligrapher at large
Boston-based Nepali artist Sneha Shrestha once laid out an installation on the floor so that people could walk all over it. She...
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