Non Fiction

The Metamorphosis

Sabhyata Timsina | January 12, 2020

Metal does not come in circles or spheres; they have to be shaped carefully with a hammer or on a steady shaping tool for bigger pieces. The chair’s design was simple, and I began to describe the cuts, bends, the grinding and the welding that had gone into the chair. A friend was amused that a rusty old chair in the middle of nowhere had meant something to me.

I Really Gotta Have Those Fries, Man! 

Prawin Adhikari | January 1, 2020

In January 2005, my heart was torn between two women. By June, it was in tatters.

Jebin Gautam wins Writing Nepal 2019

La.lit | December 23, 2019

Jebin Gautam’s ‘The Last Morning Rendezvous’, a story of a woman navigating a specious relationship, won first place in the fourth edition of Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest.

Sakuntalā and/in Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Namrata Chaturvedi | December 10, 2019

Devkota’s Shākuntal is far from being a simple translation or even an adaptation. It is, to use the words of P. Lal, a ‘transcreation’. Reading Devkota’s Shākuntal gives the sense of a sustained dialogue between two Māhakāvis of two distinct, but related, cultural and poetic traditions.

Tenderness: An Improbable Profession.

Shefali Upreti | October 6, 2019

Tenderness takes work and acceptance, Yukta says. And tenderness in the workplace depends largely on the way you see work.

La.Lit Fellowships in Nonfiction: New Ethnographic Writing 2019

La.lit | September 27, 2019

La.Lit, in partnership with the Open Institute, is pleased to announce the second edition of the La.Lit Fellowships in Nonfiction: New Ethnographic Writing. The NEW 2019 Fellowships aim to produce high-quality, research-driven writing.

Breaking the Bracket 2019

La.lit | August 8, 2019

Breaking the Bracket 2019: A Writing Program, is inviting young, emerging female and gender non-conforming writers writing in Nepali languages and English to participate in a year long program.

Writing Nepal 2019: A short story contest

La.lit | July 3, 2019

La.Lit, the literary magazine from Nepal, is partnering with writer Samrat Upadhyay to organize the fourth edition of Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest.

Keeping The Story Straight

Dylan Harris | April 26, 2019

Where do socio-economic dispossession and marginalization end and the physical realities of climate change begin? What’s in a definition? Who gets to define it? As the climate continues to change, who is in charge to telling its stories? The “refugees”? The people calling them refugees?