Stories by redvoicenepal
Seven Dead, Eight Injured In Palpa Bus Accident
Palpa, Jan 2: A bus has met with an accident in Laghuwa of Palpa district. Seven people were killed and eight others injured in the accident of Lu 2 Kha 7279 bus, police said. Police have said that rescue operation has been carried out and more details are yet to come. Police are mobilizing at […]
‘Sustainable Development Our Priority’
Airawati Rural Municipality is located in the Pyuthan district of the Lumbini Province of Nepal. It has an area of 156.75 square kilometres and a population of 22,392. Nabil Bikram Shah, elected from the Nepali Congress, leads the rural municipality as its chairman. Our Bijuwar correspondent Salim Miya talked with him about the work he has done since […]
Review of the Book ‘Muna Madan’
Muna Madan is a folk epic narrating the tragic story of Muna and Madan written in the poetic version in 1935 by the Nepalese poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota. It is one of the most popular works in Nepali literature. Just before his death in 1959 Devkota made his famous statement, “It would be all right […]
Times of war and peace
In Kathmandu, a capital city that lacks basic sanitation facilities, an elderly man from the Tarai is forced to take a roadside leak. A local man pelts a stone and curses him. The next day, the same man humiliates the old man in front of his son by trying to publicly pull down his dhoti. The young […]
Land of her mother
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa uses poetry because words don’t suffice. As the first Tibetan poetess to be published in English, she transcends language and the barriers of space and time to return to her Phayul, her father land. Her first book of poetry Rules of the House was published in 2002, and other books came thick and fast: My Rice […]
The Kumari story
When Nepal opened up to the outside world in the 1950s and the first early tourists started coming in, they were mandatorily required to photograph cremations at Pashupati, monks in Boudha and monkeys on Swayambhu. The other must-see was the Kumari Temple, and the living goddess of Kathmandu soon became a subject of enduring fascination […]
Palpase Cafe: Fiction more real than fact
Nepal’s slide began with the beginning of the insurgency 10 years ago and it was after the royal massacre of 1 June 2001 that things really started hurtling out of control. The person with a ringside seat to all this is Narayan Wagle, the journalist who rose up the ranks to become the chief editor […]
Here we introduce Madhan Bhandari
Madan Bhandari’s contribution in Nepal’s communist movement should be positively assessed for his successful democratization of the communist party and communist organization. Madan Bhandari is one politician of the Left on whom there has been significant discussion in the mainstream polity of Nepal. And yet, one feels that the narrative is inadequate. Despite all that […]