“Our language is our uniqueness, it is what brings our community together”
It has been over six decades that Raja Shakya has been writing stories in Nepalbhasa, fighting, in his own way, to keep the language alive.
It has been over six decades that Raja Shakya has been writing stories in Nepalbhasa, fighting, in his own way, to keep the language alive.
Asia Art Archive and Siddhartha Arts Foundation’s Mobile Library Nepal could be a start to engaging more people with art—a place to dig deeper and understand art better.
The international press has covered in great detail the Dalai Lama’s struggle in exile. However, there is no other book with such authentic narrative than this one written by Tenzin Geyche Tethong.
Sudha Sharma’s memoir is the story of a woman who treads her own path in an unwelcoming and discouraging patriarchal structure.
The book, a collection of pictures and notes, shows the many facets of the Karnali region—ethnic diversity, its diverse landscape and cultural heritage.
The intrinsic message of the stories covered in the book truly depict what can be called progressive and leftist ideology that attracted the veteran writer and thinker at an impressionable age.
Niranjan Kunwar’s accounts of a queer man navigating through his life in ‘Between Queens and the Cities’ is not an uncommon story, but it is an urbane and hopeful recollection.
The author has given intrinsic details of the life of his great-grandfather General Juddha Jang that encompasses a riches-to-rags saga, an assassination and a hapless refugee.
Established in 2014, Lekhan Kunj, also known as Ghost Writing Nepal, has till date published more than a 100 books.
To know about the past, present and way forward for the Gurkhas, Tim I Gurung’s Ayo Gorkhali: A History of Gurkhas is an essential read.
In contemporary times, when the meaning of love is reduced to a quick fix of sexual satisfaction and entitlement, Marjan Kamali brings forth a kind of love that stands the trials and tribulations of time and fate.
Saguna Shah’s elegant translation of The Other Queen, written by Sheeba Shah, not only renders the novel an authentic quality but also makes the otherwise jittery read of the original text a pleasant one.
Though an autobiography, the book enlightens the readers with some tell-tale stories of major figures in Nepal’s judiciary and the tortuous course that it has had to historically undergo.
Nirmal Purja, a former British Special Forces soldier, who climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in the shortest span of time under his mission 'Project Possible’ is out with his book titled 'Beyond Possible'.
The book Geopolitically Speaking portrays the potential impact of Covid-19 on international relations with the possibility of it redefining fundamental contours of accepted norms of world powers.
From femininity to motherhood, Mieko Kawakami’s latest novel Breasts and Eggs is an intense, personal story about the phases of a woman’s life.
In a country where reading books beyond the curriculum is often deemed unnecessary, What the Book Club is striving to encourage people to pick one up.
The book succinctly paints a thought-provoking and highly readable picture of various aspects of the country with a lucid and comprehensive approach.
The autobiography portrays the author's rather arduous journey from belonging to a small village in Bardiya to becoming a respectable name in academia in the heart of Kathmandu.
The author of ‘Hansa’, Sanjeev Uprety talks about his decision to decline the Padhmashree literary award and the need to pronounce zero tolerance for violence, abuse and discrimination.