Then, along came Uma. It had a lot of expectations attached to it – the actors are among the best of their generations, and the director Tsering Ritar Sherpa is a pioneer among his peers, for the breadth of his vision and for his courage to make fiction-films like Mukundo and Karma.

Standing in queue, with a cheque in hand, waiting for the tortoise-crawl to the counter, the back of the head of the man standing before me becomes an intimate: in the ten minutes since I...

The astrologer was a pleasant young man, with worn down cloth shoes and a dust-coloured set of clothes. Mohan Shamsher was surprised. He had expected someone older, someone more commanding. More authoritative. This man, with his humble cotton outfit, could not have been more than thirty, at the most.

When Quixote's Cove, the bookshop this magazine is affiliated with, was established, it always wanted to wear more than a retailer's garb. It drew its inspiration from the romanticization of ideas that felt as though they...

After a very long time, I looked at a full-length mirror. A surface that could reflect the length and the breadth, the quirk and cookie, the flaw and full. I stood before a familiar face...

If the nature of a city and its people are reflected in the public/civic institutions they support, then Kathmandu appears distinctly barbaric. Our libraries are in shambles - they are run like museums, carrying bounded...

What is it that writers offer to society? One belief is that they offer a means for understanding our world -  the people and relations that mould much of it. For instance, reading Jane Austen's Pride...

There I was, traveling to the pinnacle of civilization from a nation confounded by its own existentialism. Five legs over 36 hours - ordeals were to be expected. My journey was marred from the beginning...

La.Lit, the literary magazine from Nepal, will be partnering with writer Samrat Upadhyay to organize Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest. The contest has been set up to encourage new writing in English from Nepal. The...