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  An interview with Dan Bahadur Nepali A self-made poet and writer Dan Bahadur Nepali is a Pokhara-based poet and writer. He has been an active social worker and a dedicated party worker with NCP (UML). However, he prefers to be noticed as a poet and writer. He got into poetry writing from an early age. After having written a few successful poems, he tried his hands on prose writing. His first book, ‘Rokidainan Kharpasle Ichhaharu,’ was an anthology of poems. But later, two books, ‘Janshramma Pailaharu’ and ‘Charasari Akashma', proved his outstanding prose writing ability. ‘Janashramma Pailaharu’ is a memoir he wrote about his experience of working as a volunteer in Barpak, Gorkha.   During his engagement in the Barpark rehabilitation activities, he jotted down every single moment of his experience in a diary, and later, he elaborated on them in a book. Mr. Nepali has also published several articles on various topics in different print media. For his creative writing skil...

By LBTHAPA Chhabi Subedi has been writing prose and poetry for the last decade or so. Mr. Subedi made his presence felt by his debut essay collection ‘Matoko Sandesh’ (The Message of the Soil) in 2001. The first part of the essay was about the contemporary issues of the country, and the second part of the essay was about the social issues based on social discrimination. He raised voices against those discriminations and asked for immediate solutions. In less than two years, he brought yet another short essay collection, ‘The Heart of the Soil’ in 2004. As a prose writer, Mr. Subedi has shown more maturity in the present book. The essays were brilliant as they were in the debut book, but the language quality was much improved. He described the plot more vividly in the book, which was absent in his debut book. Subedi is a village man. He has a little land in Parsyang, Pokhara, where he grows seasonal crops. Photo: The Hemingway Post While working as a government servant, he...