Interview by Savina Xavier

A phenomenal writer, a successful woman and a fountain of wisdom! Nepal’s Nilam Karki Niharika is a name that represents sheer talent and honesty!

Along with all the qualities and characteristics that a woman encompasses, Nilam wears the quality of empathy on her sleeve. This is the ‘one’ quality that has given voice to the plight of hundreds of Nepali women.

Being a writer, she chooses to tell tales that touch her and that speak of the hardships of the women she shares her community with.

Not proud, but humbled by her recent success on winning the Madan Puraskar, she says that there is hope for Nepali writers like her. She believes that more reading will make more writers! Because, what they read is what will inspire them. Elaborating on the challenges faced by women she says, it is difficult to juggle between managing different professions/roles and maintaining devotion to writing.

NepaliSansar Bureau (NSB) got to interact with this talented writer on her personal journey as a writer and the challenges of Nepal & its people, at large. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

Here are some of the excerpts from the interview:

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Addressing the audience during the event, author Maya Thakuri spoke about figures such as Devkumari Thapa, Parijat, and Prema Shah who set the benchmark for women writers. During her talk, Thakuri emphasized on Devkumari Thapa’s contribution among other writers. Thapa shot to fame after she published her short story Patan (1949), translated as decadence or decline.  Continuing further she said, “Thapa brought the history of womanhood in the country into public limelight. She provided much needed awareness in Nepali society,” “All the woman writers then as well as now follow her path.”

Apart from Maya Thakuri’s talk, literary critic Gita Tripathi presented a paper titled ‘Tradition of Women Writing in Nepal’. Stating the scenario of the past, Gita said, since stories written by women were filtered through the lens of patriarchy, there has never been a proper understanding of the scope of woman writing. She further added, “Those who think that woman writers only write about individual struggles miss the point,”

Political Writing

Pointing towards the scenario of political writings she said, “From 1972 to 2006, there is a curious absence of political writings from women.”

In view of this, her paper presented an argument on how the changing political landscape has presented more scope for the betterment of women writings.

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