At Café Soma of Baluwatar on a recent morning, Manjushree Thapa is sitting by herself at a table and is recognisable even from a distance. Not just because she looks exactly like her pictures on ...

In the original foreword to the 1993 edition of Mauli, author Badrinarayan Pradhan mentioned how a visit to Ilam in Nepal inspired him to write the novel. As the English translation notes, enchanted ...

Writer and Sikkim bureaucrat S.D. Dhakal has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 in Nepali for his novel Kirayako Kokh (Rented Womb) that was published in 2018. A release issued by the Akademi ...

Author Chuden Kabimo lights the lamp at the Bank of Baroda event as bank zonal head Sonam Tshering Bhutia looks on in Darjeeling on Tuesday. The Telegraph Faatsung, meaning “Song of the Soil” in ...

In July 2021, Nepali author Buddhisagar talked about his fascination with the bestseller Brazilian author Paulo Coelho in an interview with the Kathmandu-based The Annapurna Express. It was in 2003 ...

There’s a Carnival Today is Manjushree Thapa’s translation of the Nepali novel, Aaja Ramita Chha (1964) by the renowned Indra Bahadur Rai. Set in 1950’s Darjeeling, the novel takes us into the lives ...

M y writing is free from politics. In creation, politics doesn’t exist,” states noted Nepali scholar and literary critic Murari P Regmi. He has just finished writing a special Nepal chapter for ...

The sheer size of Kumar Nagarkoti’s 'कल्प-ग्रन्थ' (Kal pa-Grantha) is staggering: 777 pages and weighing 1.5kg. This is a boulder of a book. Packaged as a ready-made gift in a sleek bag, the ...

On Harry Potter’s birthday we ask whether the series adds to the lives of Nepali children or strips them of wisdom gained through Nepali books. Readers reply that they prefer the vernacular while ...

A scene from the play adopted from the famous Nepali novel - Sirishko Phul at Theatre Mall in Kathmandu. Source: Theatre Mall via Facebook ...