KATHMANDU, Nov 12: Mahakabi Laxmi Prasad Devkota's 115th birth anniversary is being commemorated today with various programs.

The Supreme Court has issued an interim order not to demolish the house of the poet laureate Laxmi Prasad Devkota on Sunday. A joint bench of Justices Anil Kumar Sinha and Bam Kumar Shrestha issued an interim order to work in coordination with the Department of Archeology as Devkota's house is of archeological importance.

KATHMANDU, Dec 18: Nepal Academy is set to put forward the process for constructing 'Mahakavi Devkota Museum' after bringing the deteriorating house of great poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota under Academy's ownership.

Devkota in 2019

November 16, 2019 09:44 am

Great poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota is fondly remembered for masterpieces like Muna Madan, Shakuntal, Prometheus and many others. On the eve of his 111th birthday (November 12),  Mahakabi Laxmi Prasad Devkota Study and Research Center had organized the two-day annual conference on Laxmi Prasad Devkota at Rajdhani College on November 9-10.

KATHMANDU, Oct 27: Various programs are being organized to mark the111th birth anniversary of great poet laureate of Nepali literature, Laxmi Prasad Devkota in the country and abroad.

Remembering Parijat

May 11, 2019 00:05 am

Baisakh brings memories of Parijat, the celebrated writer whose life was no less spectacular than her epic novels. She is a literary genius known not only for her entrancing writing style but also for artistic presentation of contemporary philosophies in works of literature: existential nihilism, absurdism, anarchism and Marxism.