Baishakh comes to us adorned with the splendors of Spring. Corona scare has locked us within our houses and most of our daily routines and social life have come to a screeching halt. But nature has not stopped her cycles of seasons, birds have not stopped chirping, and flowers are blooming in all their colors as if nothing has happened.

A portrait of Bishnu Kumari Waiba (Parijat) in Kathmandu, in this undated photo.

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.

KATHMANDU, April 18: Bishnu Kumari Waiba, popularly known as Parijat, was born in 1937 in the hill station of Darjeeling, India, a place known for its tea gardens.

KATHMANDU, Nov 7: Parijat Youth Club and Pragitishil Youth Club have made it to the semifinals of the Third TAAN Martyrs Memorial Football Tournament being held at Baruneshwar in Okhaldhunga.