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Poem : American River

~Kuma Raj Subedi~ Dried debris washed onshore contrasts to playful life in the water with the seagulls, black swans and green herons. The first sailors called it a river but it is rich with sea life, gentle breeze creates sonorous … Continue reading

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Poem : My ethics

~Grishma Poudyal~ If you love me, I love you double. And if you hate me, I hate you double. These are my ethics, you don’t need anything to say, I will double the things and return you in the same … Continue reading

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Poem : Depression & his death

~Dr. Sangita Swechcha~ Seeing him laugh life would find a new meaning. However, that laughter– just was a cloak to wrap his interminable agony, and a masquerade to appease himself of his melancholy.

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Poem : The Guests

~LB Chettri~ Let’s go then you and me DAD To inspect our newly constructed house Builder is handing over to us Next week A big house it was In three floors With all human needs The terrace The garage and … Continue reading

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Poem : Shaky Pears

~Nirmal Kumar Thapa~ Living in letters is not as cold as you lived in the body Images of ages changes hence your sainthood is the same An immortal sense you left behind is alive. I can listen to your footsteps … Continue reading

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Story : The Naked Truth

~Pradipta SJB Rana~ She commences her daily business of mending shoes outside the broken station under the shade of a peepal tree. Not many people disembark at the station. Those who go rarely return. Nobody noticed her and those who … Continue reading

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Story : Dreams

~Kamesh Regmi~ The sound of my hoarse breathing was plainly audible in the stark silence of the night. I glanced over my shoulders. The rapidly advancing silhouettes that I could see in the dim moonlight struck me for the time … Continue reading

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Poem : Ode to Corona

~Dr. Chandeshwar Yadav~ Thou art fairy of fairish, O Corona dear! Feel I justice to thee, so you are just than to whom I trust. And make them myself for five year, But these cuttlefishes tie themselves into chair as … Continue reading

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Story : The marriage of Ram Kumar’s son

~Unknown~ Ram Kumar was a second-class officer in The National Bank of Nepal. Married for thirty-five years to the same devoted woman and working year after year amidst the same stack of ledger files, he could be best described as … Continue reading

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Story : Life Left Lifeless

~Sneh Rajbhandari~ I wake up to a cold and harsh morning. A dull gray light sweeps over the room giving it a surreal look. As more light trickles in, I raise my throbbing head slightly and try to moisten my … Continue reading

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Poem : Yet

~Gopal Birahi~ Turn a little back and see, my friend! That baby-hood stayed behind, And youngness is standing ahead, Those heydays of childhood are completed,

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Story : A Boy’s Mission to the Death Valley

~Divyash Poudyal~ ‘ It is a very hot and barren place, I read in a book’ Dryash said. The people of that area used to call this place ‘Death Valley’; the place where nothing lives. In a small town not … Continue reading

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Paranormal Story : Should I Believe What I Saw?

~Nancy Rauniar~ Once upon a time, in a cold, dark night, when the temperature dropped to -20 degree Celsius, the wind was blowing. The wind was so chilly that it gave you the goose bumps that reaches to your bones, … Continue reading

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Poem : Travel lonely

~Gopal Birahi~ Listening your words, To company you, If, No one is ready, Don’t lose, Your heart, Travel lonely.

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Translated Microstory : Fowl Development

~Binaya Kasajoo~ Translation : Kunda Dixit One of the effect of the dawn of “development” in Nepal has been the widespread perception that anything foreign is good, and anything local – however beneficial – is bad. Nepalis therefore prefer high-yield … Continue reading

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Poem : A Country Nearest to the Heaven

~Noriko Mizusaki~ Deep purplish blue was the sky above the Himalaya mountains Long walking on the broken trails along the edge of the cliff Crossing the crevice in a danger of falling down With a sudden stop when I looked … Continue reading

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Translated Microstory : The White Ghost

~Binaya Kasajoo~ Translation : Kunda Dixit The village headman used to wake up with the roosters every morning and walk down to the river to bathe. One morning, he met the White Ghost. The headman had heard that White Ghost … Continue reading

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Poem : Beneath The Lines

~Bhim Thatal~ Those baked chapattis of Hotel Nashraj were sumptuous We had eaten together in the comfort zone. It was very hot then there In the excessive humid weather The Sun had printed its indelible marks on your face. On … Continue reading

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Essay : Tanka and Haiku in Nepal

~Noriko Mizusaki~ I stayed in Nepal from October 15th to 26th,2003. The main purpose was to attend the Nepal – Japan exchange events planned mainly by Ms. Misuzu Fukuda and Mr. Hideo Kaneko. Luckily enough, I had had the happiness … Continue reading

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Poem : The Hanged Man Sings Kathmandu

~Manan Karki~ I ‘A nation cursed by the Sati.’ A popular Nepali saying. Neither with a bang, nor with a whimper, But with the cries, the shrieks, the curses As of a woman by fire being ravaged Will you go … Continue reading

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Essay : Buddha Vs Spiritualism

~Gopal Birahi~ ‘Spirit’ has been such an important problem in Nepali society, on which almost everyone talks about. Spirit, being subjective, depends more on heart and brain of a human. When a man saw that material property is very important … Continue reading

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Poem : When I Was Rescued In Dreams

~Anuja Ghimire~ That night in June A plane landed on my living room in Kathmandu A sharp 45- degree angle Right between my cousins, and brother, and I It had passed through the roof and dodged the kitchen As wide … Continue reading

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Poem : Nepal : A Country Full of Flowers

~Noriko Mizusaki~ Katmandu was full of flowers A garland of the mary gold I was presented at the airport They were tropic flowers of many primitive colors Among them women in the same colors passing up and down Sari and … Continue reading

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Micro Story : He Never Returned

~Eagam Khaling~ There was a boy who used to work in a small hotel, in a town. His boss often abused him even in a little mistake. He had no fate to have a square meal a day. Whenever cruelly … Continue reading

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Poem : Oh my lord!

~Prabal Dahal~ Oh my lord! Why have you created the evil? That destroys poor civil. You are everything my lord Why don’t you cut off evil with your mighty sword? Oh lord! Oh lord!

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Memoir : Red Wine

~Dilip Poudyal~ I was bored. Sorting out the stuffs and put them on the shelves was not an exciting job at all. But I had no choice. I got the job, I picked it up. It used to pay me … Continue reading

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Story : Threat

~Ismael Subba~ Sky is clear,and the birds are flying. There are uncountable faces under the same sky with different emotions and situations.Philip too is one of them.As he reads a paper,his clear and bright face seems to be darkened…The Paper … Continue reading

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Story : A Monkey in a Glass Cabinet

~Dilip Poudyal~ I was at the bank of Don river in Southern Ontario. There were people in a group of ten or fifteen on the side of the road talking each other in a louder noise than regular talking voice. … Continue reading

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Essay : A letter to Homo sapiens

~Saguna Shah~ Yours is the weaker sex, please realize: It is the beard, in which all power lies, And though there are two portions of mankind, Those portions are not equal, you will find: One half commands, the other must … Continue reading

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Essay : Diamond Shumsher : A Doyen of Nepali Literature

~Sarad Pradhan~ Do you know the rise and fall of the Rana Regime? This question brings together fact and friction in a very vivid style in Seto Bagh, a legendary historical novel based on the rise of Rana Regime in … Continue reading

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Translated Microstory : Have pity, Sahuji

~Binaya Kasajoo~ Translation : Deepak Thapa “Hey, Dhane, stop him. Stop him at once,” shouted the shopkeeper on seeing a small boy staggering under a huge load upto his shop. “How can such a small boy carry these loads? I … Continue reading

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Micro Story : Poems in Eyes

~Eagam Khaling~ A college girl was travelling in a local bus. A man just sited next to her seat, exaggerates about her eyes. They talk on many topics. While parting, the man tells her that there are poems in her … Continue reading

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