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Monday, April 30, 2012
Ripheart Mountains
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Out of Kathmandu
Kathmandu principally can mean three different things: the capital city,
the whole Valley of the capital city, or a district by the name of
Kathmandu that is in the Valley (the valley derived its name from the name of the
district of Kathmandu). Out of Kathmandu is then a collection of stories that were primarily sourced from and written out of the Valley of Kathmandu. For someone from the west, these stories are exotic and they deeply reflect the socio-cultural elements of the Himalayan foothills. Writing these stories presented a huge challenge as many of the terms and references cannot be translate directly into English, and some may even require a whole passage to explain what a term actually refers to.
Meet the characters that you may not have ever met before: a poverty-stricken village drunkard who is being walked home as muddy as a wallowing water buffalo; a fisto who loses and regains its life more than once during its sleep; a helpless husband who begs by the street to pay for his wife’s operation at a hospital; a home-sick outsider of the city who remembers his remote home-village in the distant mountains; an insane man who disappears into the mist of the busy capital; a legendary ghost who chases villagers out of their wits after dark; an innocent and uneducated village girl who tells the enumerator that she was born in a hay-stack behind her house while she tries to register her name for a voter’s ID...
Characters as weird as a three-horned buffalo and Black Nightshade come vividly alive in this collection to portray the true-to-life tales of love, of loss, of human suffering, of humour, of human-ness, and, after all, of fate and fatelessness of the poor and helpless people living in the remote mountains of Nepal. These are the stories that may not have ever appeared in the west before.
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The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child.
- See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child.
- See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child.
- See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child.
- See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child.
- See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child.
- See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for my stories:
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
For the most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name of Rimi (see the list above) I had to rely heavily on my own experiences in the most remote corner of my home-country Nepal, and I was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri. But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map, that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I could not believe my eyes back then.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu", the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss of more than 14000 (fourteen thousand) lives, many became disappeared, many became the victims of physical disabilities, and many saw the loss of their near and dear ones.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life", on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimation that exists between a male child and a female child. - See more at: http://fallencorner.blogspot.com/2012/04/stories-in-out-of-kathmandu.html#sthash.r3MiZnWc.dpuf
The source and inspiration for some of the stories in this volume:
For the
most part of my stories, although fiction, I delve deep into the real
lives of people and research into their stories. This may take the form
of a casual conversation or go much deeper in studying their lives for a
long time. Sometimes, a short and brief 5 minutes' conversation becomes
enough and sometimes it takes months.
I am not able to
create a story completely out of imagination. When I first wrote the
story about the typical uneducated country girl by the fictitious name
of Rimi, I had to rely heavily on my own
experiences in the most remote corner of the Himalayan countryside, and I
was quite sure I had created the most fictitious locale by the name of Ulleri.
But after about a year or so and after the story was printed inside the
book did I find out, accidentally while scanning a large-format map,
that the place by that same name really did exist out of fiction. I
could not believe it.
For the two stories "Tormented Lakeshore" and "Out of Kathmandu",
the latter serving as the cover story, I took the materials from the
time of the violence of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal that saw the loss
of more than 14,000 (fourteen thousand) lives.
The story "Little Life -- Big Life",
on the other hand, revolves around the experiences of a little village
girl belonging to the blacksmiths and the social discrimination that
exists between a male child and a female child.
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http://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/download/18622724-out-of-kathmandu
Wishing you a happy reading, and a good reading.
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