Hammering upon Stereotypical Mindset

Ganesh Khaniya “Sukeko thangra ra chhoriko bhar hunna bhaneko sunnubhayena?: Did you not hear dried-out wooden support and daughter both share the same fate-nobody can rely upon them” burst out Soma in rage and indignation in the beginning section of the novel Thangra. Thangra literally denotes a wooden-slender and delicate-support erected to help spread stems of vegetables/fruit plants. From early on to till the end, this novel employs Thangra as

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Kaki

Mahesh Paudyal I woke up quite late that morning. The sun had risen long before and the tender rays had spread all over our front

The Script of Life

Eagam Khaling Life should not be viewed as a mere event. This is why birth and natural death cannot be classified as events in the

The White Rose

Garima Adhikari  The sun does not rise in Vyborg. At least not in the way it used to. It merely bleeds through the smoke– an

Sitting Stunned

Eagam Khaling The woman, lighting the firewood in the earthen oven, says to her six-year-old son, “Akash! Go and see what your father is doing

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My Musings with Padma Devkota

Arun Sharma In my fingers I have this little blue cover book, THE DARK,  BLUE SEA! I turn the pages of the book: “… something