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Review: New Nepal, New Voices

Anglicised Portraits Despite the initial hiccups, the anthology is an impressive collection of stories from Nepal — a country with no dearth of ideas or talent. It is a promising sign of things to come. —Jyoti Thapa Mani http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Books-and-Guides/Innovations-That-Enrich-Lives.html

New Nepal, New Voices review in kantipuronline.com

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=157235 To cut a long story short The other day I was browsing the internet when I stumbled upon a web posting in ECS magazine by a guest columnist. The beginning sentence: "You may have wondered, as I did, why there are so few anthologies of fiction from Nepali writers writing in English." Then there is the mention about the difficulty in editing an anthology, and a casual remark: "When faced with no stories, something is better than nothing." The excerpt by Sushma Joshi, a prominent writer and filmmaker, is important as it throws light upon...truth about the dearth of good short stories written by Nepali writers. In recent years, there has truly been a huge surge in the number of people who produce and consume English literature. What is ironic is the fact that no one makes a living from writing short stories anymore. And yet, short stories have survived through the rough years and even freed itself from the dictat