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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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अनुदित उपन्यास : अक्लान्त कौरव

~महाश्वेता देवी~ नेपाली अनुवाद : इस्माली अक्लान्त कौरवकी रचयिता महाश्वेता देवी भारतीय बँगाली साहित्यकी महानायिका हुन् । बँगाली साहित्यमा रवीन्द्रनाथभन्दा भिन्न प्रवृत्ति समाजवादी यथार्थवादी आख्यानका क्षेत्रमा उनको मूर्धन्य स्थान छ । १४ जनवरी १९२६ मा अंग्रेज उपनिवेश कालमा हालको बंगलादेश … 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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अनूदित कथा : शत्रु

~एन्टोन चेखब~ अनुवाद :राजनारायण प्रधान सेप्टेम्बरको अँध्यारो रात । जेम्सवोका डाक्टर किरिलोभको एउटै छ वर्षे छोरो आन्द्रेई डिप्थिरियाले मर्‍यो । डाक्टरकी पत्नी गहिरो शोकमा परेकी थिइन् । मृत बालकको पलङमुनि उनी बसेकी थिइन् । यति नै बेला ढोकाको घण्टी जोरले … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Slippers

~Bhupendra Khadka~ Translated by Jayant Sharma One day while crossing the wooden bridge I got a splinter on my infantile foot sole Rubbing off the slime running down my nose with the left sleeve of my shirt I was about … 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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Translated Poem : The sea of Humanity

~Tanka Upreti~ Translated from Nepali by Manu Manjil Nearing a state of being a flood, Then cracking her clear cheeks against the cliff the river reached deep down me deserting her usual course. Spirits charged,

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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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Translated Poem : Sun and Cobweb

~Tulasi Diwasa~ Translated by Abhi Subedi Old sun- a splinter bounced from Time’s mountain perhaps a black spider now caught in the day’s branches knits a web consistently drawing lines of demarcation in the remaining time even in that little … Continue reading

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अनूदित कथा : नवदुलहीको पलङ

~खलिल जिब्रान~ अनुवादः अच्युत कोइराला दुलाहा-दुलही मन्दिरबाट निस्किए । उनीहरूका पछाडि बधाई दिनेहरूको ताँती थियो र ताँती प्रशन्न अनि आनन्दित थियो । अगाडि ठूलाठूला मैनबत्ती र फानूस थिए । नवयुवकहरू खुसीका गीत गाइरहेका थिए, कुमारीहरू मंगलगान गाइरहेका थिए । यो जुलुस … Continue reading

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अनूदित कथा : एक कप चिया

~क्याथरिन म्यान्स्फिल्ड~ अनुवाद :राजनारायण प्रधान रोजमरी साह्रै सुन्दरी त थिइनन् तर तिनी आकर्षक भने थिइन् । तिनी तरुनी नै थिइन् । तिनको अनुहार कान्तिमय थियो । तिनी आधुनिक लुगाहरु लगाउँथिन्, नयाँ–नयाँ साहित्यिक पुस्तकहरु पढ्थिन् । रोजमरीको विवाह भएको दुई वर्ष … Continue reading

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अनूदित कथा : मानिस केले बाँच्ने गर्छ ?

~लियो टोल्सटोय~ अनुवाद : प्रकाशकुमार शर्मा रूसको कुनै गाउँमा आफ्नो नाउँमा एकबित्ता पनि जग्गाजमिन नभएको सिमोन नाउँ गरेको एउटा गरीब सार्की बस्थ्यो । त्यसैले उसले आफ्नी श्रीमती र छोराछोरीहरू राख्नलाई एउटा किसानको छाप्रो भाडामा लिएको थियो र ज्यालादारीबाट पेट पाल्थ्यो … Continue reading

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अनूदित कथा : क्रिसमसको उपहार

~ओ. हेनरी~ अनुवाद :राजनारायण प्रधान एक डलर र सतारी सेन्ट । त्यत्ति थियो । उसले यो पैसा एक-एक सेन्ट गर्दै बचाएकी थिई । चिजबिज किन्दा दोकानदारहरूसित मोलतोल गरेर यो पैसा बचाएकी थिई । डेलाले तीन पल्ट गनी । एक डलर … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : The Ugly Verse

~Bhupeen~ Translated from Nepali by Manu Manjil how does a parliament smell differently from the way a crematorium does? what difference really is there in the cold blood of a court of law and that of a butcher’s? just outside … 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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Translated Peom : Old-age Home in the Countryside

~Prollas Sindhulia~ Translated by Mahesh Poudyal We, the old couple, are alone in the village Our kids are away There are no grandchildren That chirp like birds at daybreak There are flowers At the edge of the front yard But … 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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Translated Poem : Third eye – 1

~Dr. Dubasu Chettri~ Translated by Mahesh Poudyal Enough has been the things This pair of eyes have seen I am tired now; stunned too I am fragmented in myself I cannot stand to see My own calamity befalling me I … Continue reading

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Translated poem : Procession of Coloured Voices

~Tulasi Diwas~ Translated by Abhi Subedi Blue voices Jumping down the sky Float over the blue ocean Red voices Emitted by martyr’s blood Drying steadily Spillover rhododendron petals Yellow voices Descending from the evening horizons Are nesting In the ordered … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : River and the Bodhi Tree

~Tulasi Diwas~ Translated by Abhi Subedi Nights, crest fallen in the fight with the light, jumping out unexpectedly from the latticed windows and doors opened up to welcome the light have descended hurriedly to the street, bands of darkness becoming– … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : ‘Tree: A Mental Picture’

~Tulasi Diwas~ Translated by Abhi Subedi In the heart of Tapovan* Standing for sometime With the trees in ecstasy of meditation And talking to them in the trees’ idioms Like a tree myself A revelation came to me – Eternal … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Nepal Calling You

~Suresh Jung Shah~ Translated by Sangita Swechcha Glaciers of the mountains Whistles of the green hills Calling you Oh my darling Where are you? Melodies of the singing birds Art of the dancing peacocks Calling you Oh my darling Where … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Come with your friends and beloved!

~Komal Malla~ Translated by Bhagirath Yogi My country is the country of Mount Everest Please come to view the tallest peak in the world My country is the country of Gautam Buddha Please come to breathe peace Come, with your … Continue reading

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अनूदित कथा : मेजाईको उपहार

~ओ. हेन्री~ अनुवाद : सरिता तामाङ ओ हेनरी- एक डलर र सतासी सेन्ट। सबै गन्दा जम्मा तेति थियो । र साठी सेन्ट चाहिँ पेनीमा थियो, टन्नै खुजुरा । किराना पसले, तरकारी पसले र कैलेकाहिँ कसाईलाई दिक्कै लागुन्जेल मोलभाउ गर्दा-गर्दा “कति … 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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Translated Satire Essay : The peace rally is about to begin

~Bimal Niva~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa I got nervous seeing policemen all over, but no sooner did I try to leave the place, a staff-wielding policeman said, almost in reprimand, “Did you come to take part in the peace rally?” … Continue reading

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Translated Song : It will not be as easier to die

~Tirtharaj Tuladhar~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa It will not be as hard to die- I just cannot kill my love for you The greenery of springtime withers with the flowers The white clouds of the blue ground fly away with … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : New Year

~Shailendra Sakar~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa This new year too in those same eyes the same stamp of theatricality I wanted to learn and I’m going to see each moment of time passing by a unit of time I wanted … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : Time

~Shailendra Sakar~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Hanging an x-ray of a friend’s fractured hand like a frame in the center of a room’s clean wall I look at it and see an illusion- It’s a carved lattice window It’s possible … Continue reading

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बज्जिका गजल : भार सहजतई ऊ !

~सञ्जय साह मित्र~ विजयजी, तोहर भार सहजतई ऊ ! विजयजी, तोहर मार सहजतई ऊ ! तोहर डाँटसे ही लोग डेरालई खुब विजयजी, तोहर झार सहजतई ऊ !

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Translated Poem : To Poet Devkota

~Siddhicharan Shrestha~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Wounded bird, what can I say your bruises are gathering still The world wants to snatch from you even your soul This is the way perhaps of the foundation’s desire to hear the song … Continue reading

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Translated Song : Things like this seem to happen

~Yadav Kharel~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa From time to time in life things like this seem to happen I made a mistake in loving someone. Things like this seem to happen There must be thousands who would give you love … Continue reading

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