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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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Translated Microstory : A Vote for the master

~Binaya Kasajoo~ Translation : Deepak Thapa “So, did you vote, Rajaali?” asked Bikas. “Yes, master. I did.” “Who did you vote for? I hope you didn’t make a mistake,” said Bikas, pointing to the sample ballot paper on the wall. … Continue reading

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Poem : The shadow

~Dhara Prabha~ House at the midst of the forests’ tray Hush and alone nauseating all the day Seems cast off a long time in a way Lights up whole always in gloomy array Makes a shadow behind hanging shutter Mystery … Continue reading

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Micro Story : Who is she?

~Eagam Khaling~ In a Coffee Café, a lady seated on a chair expresses her feelings by singing some pieces of self-composed songs to a stranger and even asks his name and mobile number through a song. But the man without … Continue reading

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Poem : Some snapshots of poor

~Pravin Rai Jumeli~ Many people marked that destiny has written the poor Other many used to state that God created that creature By seeing and reading this word it seems simple and as this is made of four letters only

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Poem : Miss Word Contest

~Pravin Rai Jumeli~ Sprinkling the intoxication of elegance the obstinate hips and breasts of words C~A~T~W~A~L~K on the ramp of poetry

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Poem : My Alibi

~Bhim Thatal~ I enter TV set And exploring through the channels Reach the tumultuous forests of Africa. Riding the turbulent waves of the tranquil forest There is a woman Who has Spent her entire legacy Amongst the sprouting hopes in … Continue reading

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Criticism : Reminiscing Bhim Darshan Roka

~Jangab Chauhan~ Standing on the cliffs On the banks of the river that carries the flood and bore Walking alone Gazing at the horizons for shore I am drawing shape deep within the cloud‟s inner core (Trans. Watson, Nepalikavita.com) A … Continue reading

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Micro Story : Without Husband

~Eagam Khaling~ Sabitri has been shouting at her five years old son, “Why did you accept the sweets from that man? From today onwards, if you accept any money and sweet from him, I shall punish you badly!” Today, Sabitri’s … Continue reading

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Poem : Silence…

~Pooja Nepal~ Often i stand and stare into the diminishing light of the day horizon gradually fading into nothingness willow and pine piercing the night the earth ruptures into a song; accompanied with shrill whistles in the dark the howling … Continue reading

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Essay : Metaphors and Poetic Freshness

~Mahesh Paudyal~ This write-up is an apology in favor of a recent argument that has gained wide currency in Nepali poetry: Nepali poetry should turn towards local resources for freshness. The argument is double-edged. In one hand, it questions the … Continue reading

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Silence in Sound !!

~Sushmita Chhettri~ Crouded roads all i see, still sense of solatair in the air noises are from here and there but the silence is hard to bear. people buying and selling in the fair. can i bargain with my soul … Continue reading

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Micro Story : I Love Arunima

~Eagam Khaling~ A young girl who had come to the bank of a river to take a short walk writes on the dry sands of the bank with her index finger—‘I love Arun’, just below that, she writes again

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Story : Fascination

~Suraj Shreewastav~ Mid June, 2000 AD, It was Birgunj, the southerner Terai city of Nepal. I was ready for my home. Bus departure time is 3:30 pm. I was waiting too long for holiday, so I was excited to reach … Continue reading

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Poem : Espresso

~Prabal Thapa~ sip of espresso its bitterness is the truth as you taste with your tongues’s bud start your day

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Poem : The Tale of a Town and Many Villages

~Pravin Rai Jumeli~ The painted winds of east gushed, told a tale and vanished Possessing the blanket knitted by cold and dust the new flowers hided that tale

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Micro Story : Wife

~Eagam Khaling~ Do you know the temperature has tremendously gone down from the last week? Europe happens to turn more beautiful in the months of autumn, isn’t that true? Listen! I have heard that your boss has owned a new … Continue reading

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Poem : While depicting the ‘Life’

~Pravin Rai Jumeli~ A brush dipped in yellow am walking over the lonesome backdrop of ‘Wheatfield with crows’ are not shivering the Vangogh hands of painter Words are aching

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Poem : I

~Kalpana Satyal~ In every cell of my body is a living miracle The wholeness of me is an infinite miracle I am that, which no one knows

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Poem : Road

~Himanshu Nibha Kunwar~ Oh! road I wonder Oh! I wonder Where do you stop? Where you go? I think You might stop at the edge of the world

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Poem : God, this is an elegy for you

~Pravin Rai Jumeli~ God himself was in wonder in the uncovered tale of his forms that from the ages hearing the moans of unlimited prayers

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Micro Story : Eyes to Eyes

~Eagam Khaling~ A handsome man enters into a coffee-café. This was his first time in the café. He shouts once, for a cup of coffee, keeping his handbag on the chair beside, then sits on another chair in a relaxed … Continue reading

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Micro Story : A poet

~Eagam Khaling~ One full moon night, a fully drunken poet visited a lake. There, he managed to get a traditional boat to row around the lake. His thin dog was barking at him from the land. Hearing the dog barking … Continue reading

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Microstory : Vision

~Binaya Kasajoo~ “You need a ‘Vision’ to develop your country”, said the teacher. One of his pupils started a ‘tele-vision’ station in the city. Another pupil constructed a ‘high-vision’ hall in his village.

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Essay : Desire

~Eagam Khaling~ Why not try to overcome the limitation That makes us think we could not be perfect. —Jonathan We know that the cosmopolitans of twenty-one century have entered into the age where competitions are themselves in their rightful circumstances … Continue reading

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Microstory : A hell of a Story

~Binaya Kasajoo~ As the story goes, the United Nations decided to set up replicas of villages from around the world at its headquarters in New York to give visitors a first hand account of rural life in developing countries. One … Continue reading

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Story : The Other Way

~Jiwan Kshetry~ Sarala has cried countless times in her life. But this night in her forty-fifth year has no similarity with the sad nights earlier. She kept flowing tears that soaked her pillow. She was feeling dizzy and somewhat disoriented … Continue reading

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Research Paper : Is Philosophy Dead?

~Eagam Khaling~ This paper is an outcome of reaction after reading Professor Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s statement that philosophy is dead because it has failed to keep up with modern development in science, particularly physics (maybe the ‘theoretical science’ … Continue reading

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Poem : In the darkest depths of solitude

~Jiwan Kshetry~ In the darkest depths of solitude, there lies a humble picture of yours: a glimpse of light comes and goes, then remains the pervasive darkness. In the darkest depths of solitude, gloom lurks behind the facade of normalcy;

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Poem : Looking in

~Jiwan Kshetry~ Me and that untouched glass of liquor late at night, alone at home, me and a glass of liquor Storms come and gone yet the mountain has not moved flowing eternally, yet the river is not dry

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