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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A journalist and the writer of one of the most read Nepali novel 'Nirvana', Ghanashyam Khadka is on the lookout for inspirations for his next novel. He spent some time in Australia and been to some ...