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Poem : Got Angry?

~Dhruva Thapa~ You know nowadays I get angry soon Don’t know what’s happening I always strive to remain cool and calm But can’t linger so My wife always suggests me to cool down I recalls your words never get angry … Continue reading

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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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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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Translated Poem : My Country and Me

~Nirmal Tamang~ Translation : Raja Puniani Only to boost own development rate My beloved country works hard. And keeps me abreast of her development rate. I am ruined For I am abandoned From my due right to enjoy a share … Continue reading

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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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Translated Poem : Word can’t be composed

~Manoj Bogati~ Translation : Suraj Dhadkan Word doesn’t have wing it doesn’t need wing even to fly like a bird does it may fly wingless, though reaches elsewhere, it wants. A person who touch the word, touch the life there … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : A Night In December

~Manprasad Subba~ Translation : Suraj Dhadkan Endangered is the Time being eaten by germs. In a corner of the ruins enveloped by the smoke of marijuana droops December, with smoking pipe in hand.

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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 Poem : Home

~Kewalchandra Lama~ Translation : Raja Puniani 1. Home has chased me Out of the home. Outside the home In the chilled weather I feel tempted of the hot breasts of my bed. I have with me the carnivals Which open … Continue reading

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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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Translated Poem : When I see You

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson I always sing your song always come to you but you, approaching from afar upon get closer recognizing me become rippling animated

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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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Translated Poem : In the Farmyard

~Gyanendra Khatiwada~ Translation : Raja Puniani Separating paddy from the straw Two oxen are rotating around an axis In the farmyard I also rotate walking behind them Holding a stick in my hand

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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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Translated Poem : The House of Setu Jaisi

~Krishna Sen ‘Ichchhuk’ Translation : Mary Deschene If within you lies a human heart If within that heart life’s pulse does beat Then come, come once enter upon my traumatized courtyard / come Come, come once walk beneath my anguished … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : An Age has Passed

~Bhim Darshan Rokka~ Translation : Maya Watson An age has passed since leaving home journeying, a traveller alone I am walking, my friend! Walking away from the beginning, toward an end unknown.

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Translated Poem : The Earth – 2

~Manprasad Subba~ Translation : Suraj Dhadkan Not on the famous Tiger Hill and Sandakphu but on the hills of oxen’s backs and camels’ humps the earth has suffered much. Those poor walking hills with no real names.

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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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