MORNING SONGS   Raindrops rest on golden waves, She tugs and pulls with an ivory comb. Coffee brews in the kitchen, She hums an old Celtic tune.   Curtains drenched in warm orange light, The...

One year dissolves into the next, but I won’t forget 2013 in a hurry, for this was the year La.Lit came into being. The January launch of our first print volume and website helped us round the...

Hutta Ram Baidya, Nepal's first agricultural engineer and indefatigable campaigner for the restoration of the Bagmati River's environmental and cultural health, passed away this morning due to complications arising from a chronic lung condition at...

I was submitting to the drone of Lou Reed against Metallica’s guitars when a friend called, wondering if I wanted to see Rajesh Hamal, onstage, presiding over a court of young actors including Karma, Diya...

The Walls of Delhi, Uday Prakash, Translated by Jason Grunebaum, Hachette India, 2012. Stories on cities, non-fictive accounts of their people, and grand narratives of their past and present have become a fad of late. Given its...

Can you talk about the situation of English in Nepal? Let me relate an incident from my childhood in order to answer this complex question. I was in Class Four in the sixties in a...

There was a tea shop on one side of the dirt road that led to my home from the tarred main street in Janakpur. It was owned by a man everyone called Kachuwa. He was...

Kantipur Kurakani "NC-UML must engage in a new discourse" November 23 With the announcement of elections for Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly (mandated to write a constitution), election constituency Kathmandu-4 was in the spotlight – charismatic...

Too long have Nepalis felt compelled to follow the fortunes of overpaid Indian cricketers as they bully visitors on flat, dusty tracks only to be caught like rabbits in headlights on the lush pacy wickets...