Tag Archives: Manjushree Thapa

Translated Poem : Life in the begging bowl of death

~Usha Sherchan~ Translated by: Manjushree Thapa Emptiness. emptiness. ultimate emptiness in a gigantic cage locked vehicles keep rolling transporting empty passengers transporting empty breasts in the silence, one hears wails and sobs covered volcanoes in the emptiness, lives and deaths … Continue reading

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Translated Satire Essay : God’s Work

~Shankar Lamichhane~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa “What work does your father do, dear?” “He does god’s work.” My five-year-old daughter gives a simple answer to the question her teacher puts to her. Those who don’t have any knowledge about my … 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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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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Translated Poem : Perhaps!

~Momila~ Translation: Manjushree Thapa Perhaps! The young girl draws a border by the pond beside the house This is my home, Father! The young girl draws a border in the translated distance of passion

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Translated Poem : A Street Child’s Question To His Father

~Jhamak Kumari Ghimire~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Baba! I’ll ask you a question if you won’t shout it down for though you can boast a hundred thousand offspring I have only one father Baba! Have you forgotten me amid the … Continue reading

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Translated Song : Life Of Gales

~Amber Gurung~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa If life is a song of gales we must sing it in any way If we can’t meet joyously then we must meet in sorrow The wounds may be different, our pain is the … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : What is the interpretation of the new Millennium ?

~Jhamak Kumari Ghimire~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa A soft light glimmers on the eve of people’s deaths The fern unfurls out of season without its stem having matured

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Translated Poem : At the loss of rhododendron

~Momila~ Translation: Manjushree Thapa (To Pasang Lhamu Sherpa) At the loss of a rhododendron I thought of- an evening of cherry blossoms in flower a night of the redolent parijat flower the pain of purple jacarandas on the stree

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Translated Story : My mother Bhagirathaa

~Khagendra Sangraula~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa A person’s name is very much a private medium through which to contact the world, a medium through which to interact with the world. Each person is a distinct singularity of the social whole, … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : I’m crushing my ages

~Manjul~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa I’m crushing my ages along with these stones my days and nights my wishes and dreams I myself am being crushed

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Translated Poem : Deranged

~Laxmi Prasad Devkota~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Certainly, friend! I’m deranged! Such is my state! I see words, hear images, taste smells, touch things that are slighter than the sky. things whose existence no one admits to, whose shape the … Continue reading

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Translated Song : I haven’t known how to bloom

~Amber Gurung~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa I haven’t known how to bloom, I haven’t known how to sway Laughter came but somehow I haven’t been able to laugh Tears came always but I haven’t learned to cry I have one … Continue reading

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Translated Poem : DIsplacement

~Govinda Bartaman~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Melancholy marches like policemen Peals of silence resonate in the obscene remoteness Words take ill Letters nod off on sheets of paper The snow-peaks, mountains and valleys mind over the harvests of the dead

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Translated Poem : A Life Threatening Cold

~Rajab~ Translation : Manjushree Thapa Important persons in the office have come down with colds. This is why these important persons are not performing any work now. The important persons

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Story : Three hundred rupees

~Manjushree Thapa~ Rohit’s eyes were open but he wasn’t seeing much: a haze of trees, a block of buildings blurred in the yellow-blue hues of dawn: Kathmandu. He was sick of the way the bus rattled his bones and tired of … Continue reading

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Translated Satire Essay : The International Frog Conference

~Bhairav Aryal~ Translated by: Manjushree Thapa In today’s world, a son has greater worries than the unemployed; a journalist is in a greater rush than a taxi car. On top of that, if someone takes up journalism in order to … Continue reading

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