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The Narrow Gullies

By Shraddha Pokharel The day was very cold.  She could feel the air gush past her ears and pierce the green trousers of her kurta....

A Needle’s Determination

(Nepali folktale)  Inside a thick grove in a dense forest on the foot of the Himalayas, there lived a ferocious lion. The mad and rapacious...

The Show

By Geeta Keshary It’s November, and the tinge of Tihar has turned the air quite festive. Fair-price shops have been opened at places, especially for...

A Night in the Field

by Anchit Dhungana (The following is an excerpt from the 2016 book Shaken: A collection of memoirs)     As I woke up, I found myself leaving...

The Day of Light

By Sanjaya Manandhar (Manjeel) How happy all the people are—Rushing, jumping, running, shouting, dancing!They’re feeling like cotton,Flying like a bird in the air;Their feet nowhere...

The Lost Pea

TGT Long, long ago when animals could speak, there was a sparrow who was distinctly spick-and-span in its habits. The bird would wake up early,...

COVID: A Nightmare

By Shahil Magar Negev was out at the flaxen cobbled square in bleak autumn. At the centre of the square, a digital epigraph made up...

Unique National Heroes of Nepal

By Anchit Dhungana “A national hero is one who is dedicated to the wellbeing of his nation and is worth imitating by all,” is what...

The Bantars

By Satya Narayan Sardar Scattered over the Tarai region of Nepal, right from the easternmost district of Jhapa to Chitwan in the mid-country, the Bantars...

The Gurkha’s Daughter: Identity at Crossroads

By Aditiya Thapa  In September 2017, my friend Astha from Nepal came up to me and said “Aditiya, timilai ta etaako hoin bhanchha ta!”  She meant,...

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