Kathmandu, 15 May
Nepali researchers and academics, Raj K. Baral and Mahesh Paudyal, have been picked for the 2024 Dor Bahadur Bista Paper Prize by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS). The organization, based in Canada, has picked the researcher duo’s paper “Rhetoric of some Nepali Folklores and their Changing Modes of Expressions” for its “originality, relevance and publishability.” The ANHS Dor Bahadur Bista Award Committee has, through its official website, announced the researchers’ paper as the winner from many submissions from universities across the world. The announcement says, the winners will be awarded with cash and recognized at the annual South Asian Studies Conference.
It may be noted that the prize recognizes outstanding scholarship by researchers whose research focuses on the areas of High Asia (Hindu Kush – Karakoram – Himalaya – Tibetan Plateau) that comprise the principal interests of ANHS. Baral is a PhD scholar at the University of Texas Al Paso, and a permanent faculty of the Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University. Paudyal too is a faculty at the same Department, and is presently pursuing his PhD on Mountaineering Literature from Tribhuvan University.
