I recently finished reading Radha: Wrath of the Maeju by Rishi Amatya. But this is not a book review but rather an appreciation post about the promotional strategy behind the book. The marketing enthusiast in me (and once an attentive student in Marketing class) could not hold back from admiring the ingenious promotional strategy for the book. Radha is…
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For the last 5-6 years, I’ve always written something for Dashain, one of the biggest festivals of Nepal. Most of my writings circled around nostalgia of the past, of the bygone days of childhood. But for a while, I’ve been irked about the romanticization of childhood days. That time is already gone, and yes, it…
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Katha Ghera’s latest production Wedding Album, the Nepali adaptation of Girish Karnad’s play in English with the same name, has been the talk of the town in Kathmandu for the last few weeks. After failing to visit the show during the scheduled timeframe, I was delighted to know three extra shows were added. This was my…
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The moment I saw a post from QC Bookshop on Instagram about a writing workshop with the word ‘Monsters’ in the title, I knew I had to apply. What further heightened my curiosity was the post text mentioning ‘good monsters.’ My understanding of monsters comes from the traditional sense – monsters are bad; monsters are,…
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(Let me write this as fast as I can before the warm fuzzy feeling that a series finale can sometimes give you fades away, and I walk back into life. Light spoiler alert.) Made in Heaven, the Zoya Akhtar series has been making rounds on social media. Some pictures and scenes popped up on my…
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What are we but the stories we tell each other. What are we but the stories we repeat in our heads like a sacred mantra. If we become what we think, as Gautama Buddha would say, then we become our stories. On September 6, 2023, The StoryYellers marked their 50th session and celebrated 200 stories on the…
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