Among the songs GenZ protesters were chanting at the Mandala on 8 September was Amrit Gurung’s folk-rock rendition of the Panchayat-era patriotic song, रातो र चन्द्र-सुर्जे जङ्गी निशान हाम्रो.

Chuden Kabimo is in Kathmandu to receive this year’s Madan Puraskar prize for his novel, उरमाल that is set among the tea plantations and their workers in northeast India’s Dooar plains. The award ...

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Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- When women across Nepal's far-western region gather in late summer to sing deuda songs and prepare grain offerings, they are keeping alive one of the region's most distinctive ...