In bed because of the flu since the past few days, I am watching the movie Wild to kill time. My wife is readying to go out to meet her friend, and is asking for the laptop from another corner of the room, where she...
Ajit BARAL (fiction writer, nonfiction writer; Nepal) runs a publishing house and a bookstore in Kathmandu. He has published Interviews Across Time and Space (2007), a collection of conversations with international writers, and The Lazy Conman and Other Stories: Folktales from Nepal (2009); he is also the co-editor of the short story collection New Nepal, New Voices (2008) and co-author of By the Way: Travels through Nepal's Conflict (2008). Until recently, Baral was the coordinator of the literary supplement Akshar of Nagarik Daily. His writings appear in national journals, international magazines and book volumes. He currently runs an independent bookstore, Bookworm, and is the founder and managing editor of a Kathmandu-based publishing house, FinePrint, and the festival director of Nepal's first ever international literature festival, Nepal Literature Festival.
In bed because of the flu since the past few days, I am watching the movie Wild to kill time. My wife is readying to go out to meet her friend, and is asking for the laptop from another corner of the room, where she... media_text
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First attempt William Dalrymple’s The Age of Kali describes his travels to Tamil territory to meet V. Prabhakaran, the LTTE chief of Tamil Ealam. Reading it in March 2003, I was inspired to journey across the... media_text
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I have translated a few short pieces, but I am not translator per se. And I cannot talk knowledgably about the challenges inherent in translation. I will therefore give you a sketchy picture of the Nepali translation... media_text
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