Happy Topi Diwas

It was only a few years before he was born that the royal family had been massacred. When he went through what the history section of the social studies book told, he realized that this was not an isolated event. Throughout the country's past, kings and queens had been murdered, often by people who were …

चमकन्न दिनको अनेकौ तारा

एक लट स्वात्त गयो। म चिलमा बसिराको थिए। अर्को लट स्वात्त गयो। अरे के भयो यो अनौठो? "त पनि एक हान् न त स्वात्त," उसले भन्यो। हान्दिम्ला भनेर सोचिराको थिए तर एक्कासी टाउको रनन रन्किन थाल्यो। आकाश त तेही नै थियो टाउको माथि। आखिर के नै भको थियो र? चराहरु नि चिर्बिर गरिरहेकै थिए। तर …

Hare Krishmas

The year is 2100. Kathmandu's symbolic order has finally collapsed. It took more than a century and a half for the citizens of this city to get rid of their obsession for cars. The year was 2050 when I got an opportunity to talk with a car. After the ban on the vehicle during rush …

Saix Rogi Miley Sukrabaar

The walk had become arduous. The scorching heat was not helping either. He was in a desperate need of some sort of physical and mental assuage; a relief from all the pain and sleepless nights. He would have missed the advertisement had the cow not mooed. The holy cow did what it had to do, …

Lucid Philosophy

I rolled sideways on my bed which caused me to fall into a deep void. It was like Alice falling inside the rabbit hole. I do not exactly recall how long the journey was but it was definitely between an hour or two. On the way down, I met Bansahari Acharya. I was falling down …

Almost Winter

Winter was approaching. The trees had started to shed off their leaves. "When will I leave my skin behind?" she wondered. There she was, on the corner seat of the classroom, away from everyone. Her desk was adorned by the engravings made by a key that she had randomly found below her desk. Maybe it …

Marriage

"How did you end up meeting each other?" I asked them. "It was like this..." she began. After a moment of pause, she said in a low voice, "actually, I do not quite remember." "Yeah you have started to forget things," he took the floor. "It has been quite some time now." He reiterated the …

Bhagwan’s Plan

The CD started swirling in the sky. How? It was hanging on a rope that was tied to a tall avocado tree. Why? I am unaware, despite living in this neighborhood for a year and a half. Sometimes the CD would reflect rainbow colored reflection into my room. There was a particular time of the …

Angur – Anger

Somedays, I feel this deep urge to leave this city. I do not want to go that far too. I cannot imagine myself living in Normandy or Nairobi. I think somewhere in between should do - perhaps Muscat or Phnom Penh. Maybe even Chengdu or Varanasi. What will I do in my to-be-home city? I …

I Have Some Tea for You

"The more intense the idealism, the more bizarre are the contradictions that underpin the idea," she said. I sipped on the cup of Tulsi tea and placed it down on the table. "That sounds true," I opined. At the beginning of our conversation, the cat had watched us with a peculiar curiosity. Within a minute, …