In the title story, Bikram achieves his most urgent middle-class dream, to emigrate to London. Young phoren-returned Nepalis hang out in the bars of Thamel in 'Night Out in Kathmandu', sharing tables with those who did not could not go. They talk about pretty much the same things: visas, music, booze, the impossibility of getting laid in the city. There are foreigners too, trekking on the usual routes, smoking cheap grass and looking for their inner selves. The Maobadis loom large in 'Home for Dashain', wreaking vengeance on behalf of the people. Though rarely mentioned in the city, they are ever present, invoked by the sad pole dancers in the more risqué bars and the transvestites pounding the streets looking for customers. And in 'Aryaghat', a Kathmandu family lays to rest the ashes of a Nepali boy who has committed suicide in Alabama. The sixteen stories in Nothing to Declare are passionate, pensive and at times disenchanted. They mirror the experiences of the middle-class youth of Kathmandu as they build lives, trying to make sense and pushing the limits of a rapidly changing but ever-conservative society.
CONFESSION
SHRESTHA KAVITA RAM
PILGRIMS BOOK HOUSE KATHMANDU
FEVER
SITA PANDEY
NIRALA PUBLICATIONS DELHI
Leech and Other Stories
RANJAN ADIGA
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Karnali Blues English Hardcover
MICHAEL JAMES HUTT,BUDDHISAGAR
Anuradha
BIJAYA MALLA
PILGRIMS PUBLISHING VARANASI
Come Tomorrow A Story About Gurkhas and Their Land
Mani Dixit
ADARSH PUBLICATIONS, NEW DELHI, INDIA
Mother Mine A Novel
SHEEBA SHIVANGINI SHAH
SPEAKING TIGER PUBLISHING PVT. LTD.
Radha Wrath of the Maeju
Rishi Amatya
SAFU
FRAGILE MOUNTAINS
LIMBU M K
VAJRA BOOKS/VAJRA PUBLICATIONS INC. PVT. LTD.
Broken Strings of Life No Pan
AZ AAD
BY AUTHOR
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