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“I will be researching the stories of Nepali migrants in Burma and Thailand.”

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– Interview with Sushma Joshi by Voicu Mihnea Simadan 24/08/2010 Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer and filmmaker who was born in 1973 in Kathmandu. She has published The End of the World (2008), a collection of short stories, Art Matters (2008), a books of essays about contemporary art, and New Nepal, New Voices (co-editor, 2009), a selection of articles. In this interview she talks about her books, writing, Nepal and her future trip to Thailand. Mihnea Voicu Simandan: Your collection of short stories, The End of the World , has quite a few references to politics, especially the Maoist struggle for power. What is the relationship between fiction and politics? Sushma Joshi : Politics can be an incomprehensible beast. How better to describe the complexities of the cotemporary moment than through fiction? MVS: Your concern with injustice and the tough life of poor Nepalese is an obvious theme in The End of the World . Does literat