This year’s awards also honour Rama Sharma with the Padmashree Sadhana Honour and Professor Abhi Subedi with the Padmashree Gaurav Award.

In ‘And I Blamed Canadian Winter Again’, Arun Budhathoki explores divided selves, diasporic longing, and fleeting moments of hope.

Professor Sthaneshwar Timalsina reflects on the challenges of institutionalising Tantric studies and differences in how Eastern and Western students engage with philosophy.

KC’s second nonfiction book discusses themes of hope and psychological healing.

Tracing the journey of these paintings from the calendars to the museum reveals the underlying threads of interconnected processes.

The translated collection, split into two parts, includes seventeen short stories and two compelling novellas.

‘10 People's Stories’ traces everyday lives, lost traditions, and the subtle shifts in Nepal’s social and cultural fabric.

Before his passing in 2024, political thinker James C Scott wrote a radical ode to floods, arguing that taming rivers does more harm than good.

Drawing from literature and ancient Eastern texts like the ‘Natyashastra’, Nirmala Mani Adhikary challenges the Western dominance in communication theory.

Prawin Adhikari’s ‘Budhani’, a retelling of an age-old Tharu folktale, is more than just another fable where wisdom wins over the wicked.

The selection comes from a total of 299 entries.

In ‘Before Your Memory Fades’, Toshikazu Kawaguchi expands his heartwarming series with fresh characters and a new setting

Sanskrit professor McComas Taylor discusses language, lineage, and what led him to translate the ‘Viṣṇu Purāṇa’.

During the pandemic, Zomato sent an email targeted at children titled ‘Hey, parents not letting you order?’

In ‘War Through an Intersectional Lens’, Keshab Giri captures the voices of former Maoist fighters whose revolutionary dreams collided with hard realities.

Madan Puraskar laureate and essayist Yubaraj Nayaghare discusses his travels and contemporary Nepali literature.

The three-day programme gathered 32 changemakers and launched the ‘Feminist Political Handbook’.

‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ is a quiet, emotional tale about second chances, where the past stays the same—but people come back changed.

Translations of 19 stories and novellas by the Chinese writer have been released by Publication Nepalaya.

From religious texts to AI-generated content, Yuval Noah Harari tracks how powerful people have controlled information to influence belief, behaviour, and the future.