Nirala Publications

Just published from Nirala

2012-03-10T13:42:00.003-08:00

Just Released

Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu
33 New Poems
Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN-81-8250-032-X 2012 Hard pp.82
Formed by 20th century South Asian and North American poetry movements and himself a verbal renewer of his country’s literature, Yuyutsu indefatigably writes along rivers and paths, mountains, valleys and villages, verse after verse…
Dr. Christoph Emmrich ,
South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the University of Toronto.
Garuda & Other Poems of Astral Plains
David B. Austell
ISBN-81-8250-038-9 2012 Hard pp.64
“From Garuda to Saluda (that is, from the Hindu man-bird deity to a tiny town in North Carolina), David Austell’s new collection explores recurring themes of masculine identities and human complexities with precision and grace. This poetic world is one of unerring attention to tight image and emotional nuance, with a sometimes terrifying undercurrent of recurrent meanings drawn from a wide range of cultural allusions, all shared by a guide whose capacious voice can contain both deep mysteries and no small dash of humor. Austell shows us the unforgettable feel of the club of young adolescent “He-men” on a quest for a secret stream; a southern woman looking back to the Dixieland of ambiguities of raced, gendered, and classed expectations; the dangerously aching erotics of the male gaze or the musical score. The final long poem “The Final Pitch on Olympus Mons” is an utter tour de force of baseball, poetics, science fiction, and a shiveringly unstable encounter with absolute Otherness. Not many volumes of poetry are real page-turners as well as perfect pitches: this one is.”
-Meg Harper
Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English, University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
Inside Out, Upside Down, & Round and Round
Poems Selected & New
John J. Trause
ISBN-81-8250-049-4 2012 Paper pp.83
Dizzy from diving into John J. Trause’s new collection of surprising poems, I urge you to enter!
Let the title swirl and turn you into his wild array of inventions.  Witty, ribald, arch, they tease and entice. They are smart poems. With eclectic topics, he applies a scholar’s encompassing mind and an artistic eye for colorful detail. Trause is not only a prosodic humorist, he is as ever a proficient scholar, and these poems prove his rigorous power. Note his classical and Biblical knowledge, the many languages at his command, and the contemporary scenes he pulls into focus—even on a mocking tour of north NJ towns! These poems take a reader traveling through many lands of rhyme and reason; hurry to see what Trause finds “Outside the Zoo” in the poem of that title, enjoy his complex vocabulary, laugh with his riffs.  Don’t let the abstruse words retain you from the lively banter.  Run and climb. I tried to swim through, but found myself riding the waves. These poems will entertain you, make you study, make you gasp. You may turn round and read again, they will make you a little wiser than before John J. Trause took hold.
Madeline Tiger, author of From the Viewing Stand

All The Way From Kathmandu
Selected Jazz Poems
John Clarke
ISBN-81-8250-042-7 2012 Paper pp.82
Careful how you hold this book. It might burn.
But beautifully.
With life.
And with love.
–Billy Jenkins
“Jazz poetry that will give you wings”
-Dean Stalham Director, ‘Artsaveslives’
“Jazzman john does with words what Coltrane did with the horn”
-Geoff Parker,’ Brixtongue’

Journey Though India and Nepal : Poems/Pictures
Robert Scotto & Lu Wu
ISBN-81-8250-045-1 2012 Hard pp.82
The pillow book result of Robert and Lu Wu’s passage to Hindustan and the Himalayas.
Like his master Whitman, Scotto describes ‘as accurately as possible what he saw and reflect as honestly as I was able to on what it meant.’ And Lu weaves her carpet of lurid colors that can induce you to pack up and head for a very long journey. A stunning mine of riches, the book shows results of crossing borders to become bridges.
Incident on the Orient
Poems by George Wallace
ISBN-81-8250-044-3 2012 Paper pp.63
“An exciting and youthful journey of poems and adventures, we follow with enthusiasm, this young man’s journey to India. To travel to India is to search for yourself. For it is ever true that the journey leads to where you have always been”
-Donavan Leitch
No Child More Perfect & Other Poems
Christi Shannon Kline
ISBN-81-8250-039-7   2012   Paper pp.82
Watch out! Christi Shannon Kline’s poems are original. She speaks her mind: ordinary and desperate,
frank and unfaked and full of feeling. The poems sing, and we welcome their freshness.
–Marie Ponsot- poet, winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award
Things Missed in Exile
New Poems
E. Avi Frishman
ISBN-81-8250-039-7   2012   Paper   pp. 52

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti -- New Edition

2011-01-09T21:10:00.000-08:00

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti 

Collected by Shiva Dhakal
Adapted into Nepali by Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN 81-8250-002-0 2009. Paper pp.125. Rs. 195.

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti reveals the drama of primitive human mind enacted on Himal’s glacial heights.

The book is the result of Shiva Dhakal’s trek to Rolwaling and Khumbu. Creatively exploring the intricacy of human relationships, Shiva Dhakal offers a dazzling diadem of twelve folk tales.

Employing his master skill of story telling, unlike fashionable folklorists, Mr. Dhakal evokes the elemental events that determine the working of a primitive psyche.

The incidents of raping of an innocent girl by the man-eater Yeti, of the seduction of an intimate friend’s wife, the tempting of an incarnate Lama by a young Sherpa maiden, the Strategy of annihilating Yetis of the world, the birth of mountains out of guilty lovers, and the duel between the wind and the fog reveal the basic working pattern of a primitive mind.

To read the Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti is to know the hidden hunger of much misunderstood and glamorized Sherpa mind.

“The book is an excellent contribution to the Sherpa culture and Ethnology. Dhakal deserves congratulations on his arduous undertaking involving mountain trekking and his successful recapitulation of these tales in a very simple and clear-cut style …” – Dr. Murari P. Regmi

The Yeti:Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans

2011-01-09T21:05:00.001-08:00

The Yeti

The Yeti. ISBN81-85693-57-9 2004. Hardcover pp.113 Rs.250 Indian

Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans
by Dr. Larry G. Peters

ISBN 81-85693-57-9 2004 Hard pp.128 Rs. 250

Dr. Larry G. Peters is a world-renowned scholar and initiated Shaman in the Tibetan tradition. The book takes a fresh look at the yeti, the elusive snowman of the Himalayas. Peters here aspires to establish the yeti as the spirit of the Himalayan Forest Shamans. In his view, Evolution-minded researchers’ hunt for ‘missing-link’ led to a scientific dead-end and the yeti who became associated with research fell into disrepute as a superstitious wed to spurious theory. Consequently, the yeti academically became “an abominable snowman”.

Yeti is a living, current, popular mythology and a folkloric treasure whose origin the present book seeks to explore. Tracing its history to the pre-Buddhist, fierce spirit of Nature-mountain goddess and forest wild men of Bonpo shamanism in Tibet, Dr. Peters uncovers the hidden chapters of human history, evaluating the cross-cultural implications of religious practices, myths rituals, legends and scriptures.

The Yeti, to sum up, it a sparkling piece of original research written with an objective to rehabilitate interest in the study of yeti as a spiritual teacher and initiator of shamans.

Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Diane Hamilton's book launch

2011-01-03T12:19:00.000-08:00

Thursday January 13 (from 6 – 7:30 p.m.) - Lower Branch Library, 2600 Bayshore Rd., Villas, NJ 08251. Tel: 609 886 8999. Yuyutsu Sharma and Diane Hamilton will be reading at the launch of Diane Hamilton’s ‘Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems’, published by Nirala Publications.

Trance, Initiation & Psychotherapy in Nepalese Shamanism By Larry G. Peters

2011-01-03T08:33:00.000-08:00

Trance, Initiation and Psychotherapy in Nepalese Shamanism by Inderjeet , Larry G. Peters, Nandita Chatterje

Result of lifetime’s researches in the Himalayas,-Trance is a meticulous study exploring the hidden terrains of Tamang and Tibetan Shamanism. An exquisite fusion of creative writing and anthropological research, the book evaluates the relevance of shamanic practices in a modern-day Nepal. Divided into four major sections, trance’ opens with a study of phenomenology of Shamanism as a spiritual discipline. Shamanism, Dr. Peters claims, is humankind’s first mystical tradition. It is a cross- cultural phenomenon. Shamans were the first to explore the inner space in a disciplined way. Shamanism, he adds, overlaps with, and is at the origin of other younger spiritual traditions, like Yoga, Vipasana and Tantra which had continued the development of the disciplines of spiritual transformation. “The shaman’s mystical path,” in Dr. Peters’ words, “is an archetype, a universal pattern. It is not a prehistoric or a dead artifact but a living fossil possessing the same vital psychological foundation as later mystical traditions. Against this ideological backdrop, Dr. Peter ventures to study the cultural archetype of what it is to be a shaman in a Nepalese society and finds out that Tamang shamanic initiatory process comprises a psychotherapeutic system. The chapter that follows documents rare letters he sent home to his friends. These letters tell us of remarkable shamans that he met during his anthropological fieldwork in Nepal. The chapter next effortlessly sketches the visions of Nepalese mindscape during Peters’ journey to Kalinchowk shrine with Aama Bambo, a Tamang shaman Focussing on the transformative nature of mystical experiences in Tamang shamanism, the author moves ahead to discuss the Tibetan healing rituals of Dorje Yudronma, a fierce manifestation of feminine cosmic force. Despite reservations onLhamo‘s intensely aggressive style of healing, Dr Peters seems to be in awe of her magical abilities and her para normal knowledge. Peters interprets Lhamo’s violent exorcisms as psychothera-peutic procedures aimed at breaking down the patient’s ego defenses and introducing psychological crisis. A full length chapter is devoted to Karga Puja ritual, a dramatic event, successful in treating indigenous categories of mental illness. The book ends with a survey of shamanism and medicine in developing Nepal. Shamanism, Dr. Peters suggests, is not antithetical to modern medicine. “In fact with proper training the shamans can even come to spread medical aid inasmuch as they already recognize their limitations in the treating of certain illness and take an active part in getting their clients to seek such treatment”.

http://niralapublications.com/non-fiction/trance/

Other book by the same aothor, Tamang Shamans: An Ethnopsychiatric Study Of Ecstasy And Healing In Nepal by Larry Peters.

Cover photo of the book.

Dr. Larry Peters is a world renowned scholar and initiated shaman in the Tibetan tradition. He was the recipient of the Regent’s Fellowship at the University of California and a post-doctoral fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Peters holds advance degrees in both Anthropology and Psychology. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Nepal, China, Mongolia, and Siberia and is a research associate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

Part 2 -- Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

2010-11-20T18:03:00.000-08:00

Part 2 -- Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

Book Launch : David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems Part 2

www.youtube.com

20 November, 2010 2 pm Yuyutsu Sharma launches David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems" Video By Sahadev Poudel for Himali Sworharu www.nepaliradio.org New York, NY David Austell's Little Creek & Other Poems Several fellow poets read from the book, and there was live music and multi-medi

Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

2010-11-20T17:46:00.000-08:00

Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

A Book Launch Little Creek & Other Poems By David AustellPart 1

www.youtube.com

20 November, 2010 2 pm Yuyutsu Sharma launches David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems" Video By Sahadev Poudel for Himali Sworharu www.nepaliradio.org

NepaliTV | November 20, 2010 |

David Austell reading from Little Creek (Nirala) at NYU Bookstore

2010-11-19T19:58:00.000-08:00

David Austell reading from Little Creek (Nirala) at NYU Bookstore
David Austell NYU Bookstore Video.MOV
www.youtube.com
American educator and poet David Austell reading his poem, "Above Tantulus" from his new book, "Little Creek and other Poems" at NYU Bookstore, New York. This is David Austell's debut collection of poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi. "An impressive and wide-ranging intelligence pe

Diane Hamilton's Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems

2010-11-17T08:01:00.001-08:00

Diane Hamilton's Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems

Lizard Licking, Donegal is a exciting anthology of poems from a fresh American voice.

Hammering on words in isolation, Diane Hamilton here weaves a myth of a family, of love and loss.

Solemn and tragic, these very American poems attempt to seek roots of a family, of a father who got lost in the neighboring street, of a mother who was Job’s comforter, of a friend who died in an explosion.

Diane has power to be intense without being melodramatic, of remaining passionate without being obtuse or erudite. “Like a tropical breeze,” her poems are “slow and patient /like a worm, /like the wind.”

Simplicity of Diane’s voice will win the hearts of the readers she has won over many

continents.

Diane Hamilton’s distinctive voice and imaginative, inventive poems will surprise you. Her surreal images and moving poems of love and passion, birth and rebirth, carry the art of writing poetry to exciting new locales—everywhere from Ireland to the prom in Jim Thorpe and late night surgery at the Heartbreak Motel.

--Barbara Daniels

Nirala ISBN - 81-81-8250-033-8 2011 Paper

Yuyutsu Sharma to launch David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems"

2010-11-12T17:14:00.000-08:00

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/94818

Yuyutsu Sharma to launch David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems"

Bowery Poetry Cafe, New York

20 November, 2010 2 pm

308 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker)

New York, NY

David Austell's

Little Creek & Other Poems

Several fellow poets will read from the book, and there will be
live music and multi-media.

Little Creek is an astonishing anthology of poems from well-known American educator and poet, David B Austell

Containing the best of Austell's work written over a decade, Little Creek begins with memories of his childhood in a small American town set against the backdrop of Vietnam and other wars, reminiscent of Robert Lowell's Life Studies. The poems range from a meeting with a namesake in his afterlife, the morning star over a Protestant valley, a last day at Lake Baikal, the inheritance of wars thrust upon his nation and the people, an Indian student reminding him of the immense gulf between East and West, and finally to poems inspired by an imagined NASA conquest of Olympus Mons. Establishing Austell as a master craftsman, the 'roaring turbulence' of these poems will, for sure, leave his readers breathless.

For Austell is a poet who takes his vocation seriously, filling the gulfs and gaps between far-flung worlds with the incantations of his prayer-like poems. Vibrant from a contemporary American idiom, and voluptuous as 'her long legs and round hips', these poems are at the same time 'thin as a strand of DNA'.

"An impressive and wide-ranging intelligence permeates David Austell's ambitious first book of poems. Austell is a new poet with a seasoned soul, and the treasures of this collection are manifold and rich. He has a gift for narrative, a sharp eye for detail, and a passion for language.

Austell writes from both the head and the heart, and the poems that result are capacious, and substantial enough to reward rereading. Here is a bold, promising debut ."

Deborah Landau, Director, NYU Creative Writing Program, poet and author (Orchidelerium), New York University, United States

"David's poems are complex, yet concise and genuine, as in his 'A Ghost Among Ghosts', where he evokes the culture and history of Asheville, North Carolina with both knowledge and compassion."

Pierce Pettis, songwriter and recording artist (Compass Records), Nashville, Tennessee, United States

"Austell is equally at home waiting for the New York subway, on Mars, and under the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. To each setting he brings verve, compassion and imagination. He makes
the reader laugh, and he makes the reader care. Poems to be read and re-read.

Christopher Southgate, British editor and poet (Easing the Gravity Field), Dartmoor, United Kingdom

"Austell's is a world beyond heights, a passion not only for the earth but also for the spheres beyond it. Here's a voice that's steady and sanguine, earthly and sublime, contemporary and timeless, a voice rising above all polarities, singing songs of unattainable and imagined summits, fervent hymns in praise of globes nameless to the human imagination..."

Yuyutsu Sharma, poet (Space Cake Amsterdam; Annapurna Poems) and editor, Nirala Series

Baghdad, February1991 and Other Poems by Ronny Someck

2009-12-27T11:01:00.000-08:00

Baghdad, February 1991

& Other Poems by Ronny Someck

A Bilingual Nepali /English Edition

Translated into Nepali by
Yuyutsu RD Sharma

ISBN 81-8250- 018-4 2009 Hard pp.200 Rs. 250

Baghdad, February 1991 is a moving
evocation of the lives spent in the times
of love and war.

Reading renowned Hebrew poet Ronny Someck can be an intriguing experience. Here are poems of controlled rage and tender love, unleashing hidden fears and angst of a nation living in the shadow of endless violence and bloodshed.

Distinguished poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma for first time translates a major Hebrew voice into Nepali, transporting Ronny’s poetic splendor to Himalayas. The book is a celebration of the Hebrew poet’s Whitmanseque extension of the line that takes a magical twist, leaving the readers breathless.

“Reading Ronny Someck’s fascinating
Work, I came upon ’Bliss,’ a poem that can serve
as a wedding toast throughout the world”.

-Wislawa Szymborska

Distinguished Hebrew poet, Ronny Someck was born in Baghdad in 1951. He came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art. Someck has worked with street gangs, and currently teaches literature and leads creative writing workshops.
Author of nine volumes of poetry (The last, “The Milk Underground”) and book for children with his daughter Shirly (“The Laughter Button”), he has been translated into 39 languages. Selections of his poems have appeared in Arabic translation, French (with the exile Iraqi poet- A.K. El-Janabi), Catalan, Albanian, Italian, Macedonian, Yiddish, Croatian and English.
Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award, the Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew Poetry, the ”Wine Poem Award” in Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2005 and Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry 2006 in the Maastricht International Poetry Nights, Holland. Someck has recorded with the musician Elliott Sharp 3 CD’s: “Revenge of the stuttering Child”, “Poverty Line” and “Short History of Vodka.” In 1998, he made an exhibition “Nature’s Factory, Winter 2046” with Beny Efrat in Israel Museum. Similarly, his exhibitions, ”Hawadja Bialik”(2004) and ”Rehal Madrid (2007) took place in The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan.
He is a member of the Public Council of Batsheva Dance Company and the Hebrew- Arabic Theatre He lives in Ramat-Gan with his wife and daughter.

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu RD Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator. He has published seven poetry collections, including, Annapurna Poems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008), Everest Failures (White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, 2008) www.WayToEverest.de: A photographic and Poetic Journey to the Foot of Everest, (Epsilonmedia, Germany, 2006) with German photographer Andreas Stimm and a translation of Irish poet Cathal O’ Searcaigh poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection entitled, Kathmandu: Poems: Selected and New.

Yuyutsu has translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry in English and launched a literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry.
Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places including Poetry Café, London, Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry, Belfast, Western Writers’ Center, Galway, Bowery Poetry Place, New York, Knox College, Illinois, Whittier College, California, Baruch College, New York, WB Yeats’ Center, Sligo, Gustav Stressemann Institute, Bonn, Rubin Museum, New York, Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, The Guardian Newsroom, London, Arnofini, Bristol, Borders, London, Royal Society of Dramatic Arts, London, Gunter Grass House, Bremen, GTZ, Kathmandu, Ruigoord, Amsterdam, Nehru Center, London, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Indian International Center, New Delhi, and Villa Serbelloni, Italy. He has held workshop in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.
His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Irish Pages, Omega, Howling Dog Press, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek.
Born at Nakodar, Punjab, he was educated at Baring Union Christian College, Batala and later at Rajasthan University, Jaipur.
The Library of Congress has nominated his recent book of Nepali translations entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books International Perspectives.
Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovene, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times . He has completed his first novel.
More: www.yuyutsu.de

N I R A L A S E R I E S
www.yuyutsu.de
www.niralapublications.com

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow--New Nirala Book available at Store

2009-10-31T20:29:00.000-07:00

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow

A highly engrossing account of world’s youngest republic passing through great historic transformation.

Internationally known poet and columnist for several dailies including The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Post, Yuyutsu RD Sharma for the first time brings alive the secret commotion behind the great change in Himalayan nation that the whole world has been watching curiously. In his lucent prose, he puts together his best to unleash the myriad colors of violence in the contemporary Nepal and in the rest of the world during his legendry travels.

Terror on the deserted Nepalese highways, merciless butchering of innocent Nepali workers in Baghdad, dismal day of London Bombing, murder of Theo van Gogh, the State of emergency in India, the book captures rare moments in contemporary history that readers would treasure not just for themselves but for the posterity.

Here you will find a distinguished poet churning out his best prose, at best of his poetic capabilities.

ISBN81-8250-012-5
Published by Nirala Publications New Delhi-2 2010 Price:395 Non- Fiction Hard Cover

Roaring Recitals-- Nirala book share

2009-10-31T20:16:00.000-07:00

Roaring Recitals
Five Nepali Poets Translated from the Nepali
by Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN81-85693-95-1 1999 Hardcover pp.99
Rs.150 Indian
Roaring Recitals is a stunning anthology revealing the range and power of contemporary Nepalese imagination.

Translated into English for the first time by well-known poet Yuyutsu R.D, active in Nepal’s literary life for last two decades, this is a ground-breaking volume of solemn rage displaying richness and diversity of Nepali poetry.
Since politics has always played a decisive role in every field of Nepal, including literature, Yuyustu R.D. translated a selection of five major Nepali poets who have in some way or the other shattered ugly castles of orthodoxy and autocracy to usher modernism in the life and literature Nepali. For it’s Gopal Prasad Rimal who liberated Nepali literature from the shackles of traditional Sanskrit usage and meter and initiated a tradition of prose poems, employing native symbols and folklore, to voice the agony of Nepalese people suffering at the hands of Rana oligarchy.
Following footsteps of Rimal, we find Bhupi Sherchan, Banira Giri, Shailendra Sakar and Bimal Nibha raise their voice against the despotic partyless Panchayat regime. Here Bhupi Sherchan evokes the geopolitical compulsion of Nepal to remain a non-entity and raises delicate questions of nationalism, sovereignty and a liberated prosperous Nepal, Banira employs man-woman relations to clean the vicious webs of despots and “missile makers,” Sakar discovers the anguish of discarded communities to restore the dignity of the poet from the clutches of Establishment and Nibha flings stones of fury at “soft-nailed civilians”, the Panchayat demons, to dramatise the interplay of “tears and blood.”
Roaring Recitals is a dazzling treasure that shall interest those readers worldwide who are curious to acquaint themselves with a secret flame of vitality, a creative turbulence that has remained at the center of modern Nepal’s creative life.

After Tagore-- by David Ray- New Book share

2009-10-31T19:58:00.000-07:00

Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore
by David Ray
After Tagore is a vibrant volume by one of the most powerful living American poets. Here, in his twenty-second book, Ray conjures the magic of his master Tagore and brings alive the forgotten fragrances of the Indian landscape for his readers worldwide. Ray explores, elaborates, transposes and engages his own thoughts in dialogue with those of Tagore to celebrate the elemental simplicity of human endeavors. Poet and editor Yuyutsu RD Sharma writes: “Ray’s Tagore poems take us to a larger tradition and Tagore turns out to be a vital door.”
David Ray has published more than 20 books. Following the release of "When," Ray's latest poetry collection, African novelist Chinua Achebe hailed him as "among the best half-dozen poets in the English language today." Ray's 2004 collection, "The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of theIraq Wars," was praised by literary critic F.D. Reeve as "the skilled work of a craftsman whose poems cry out against the barbarism of war and the stupid cruelties of those who make it." In the 1960s, Ray was one of the founders of American Writers Against the Vietnam War and co-edited, with Robert Bly, "APoetry Reading Against the Vietnam War." Ray has received numerous literary awards, and he has taught in the United States, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Hardcover, 120 pp. including Preface by Ray.
Rs. 295 Indian

New Nirala Books available-- Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti

2009-10-19T09:20:00.001-07:00

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti
Collected by Shiva Dhakal
Adapted by Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN 81-8250-002-0 2009 Paper pp.125 Rs. 195

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti reveals the drama of primitive human mind enacted on Himal’s glacial heights. The book is the result of Shiva Dhakal’s trek to Rolwaling and Khumbu. Creatively exploring the intricacy of human relationships, Shiva Dhakal offers a dazzling diadem of twelve folk tales. Employing his master skill of story telling, unlike fashionable folklorists, Mr. Dhakal evokes the elemental events that determine the working of a primitive psyche. The incidents of raping of an innocent girl by the man-eater Yeti, of the seduction of an intimate friend’s wife, the tempting of an incarnate Lama by a young Sherpa maiden, the Strategy of annihilating Yetis of the world, the birth of mountains out of guilty lovers, and the duel between the wind and the fog reveal the basic working pattern of a primitive mind. To read the Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti is to know the hidden hunger of much misunderstood and glamorized Sherpa mind.

…The book is an excellent contribution to the Sherpa culture and Ethnology. Dhakal deserves congratulations on his arduous undertaking involving mountain trekking and his successful recapitulation of these tales in a very simple and clear-cut style…
- Dr. Murari P. Regmi

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow--New Nirala Book available at Store

2009-10-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow

A highly engrossing account of world’s youngest republic passing through great historic transformation.

Internationally known poet and columnist for several dailies including The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Post, Yuyutsu RD Sharma for the first time brings alive the secret commotion behind the great change in Himalayan nation that the whole world has been watching curiously. In his lucent prose, he puts together his best to unleash the myriad colors of violence in the contemporary Nepal and in the rest of the world during his legendry travels.

Terror on the deserted Nepalese highways, merciless butchering of innocent Nepali workers in Baghdad, dismal day of London Bombing, murder of Theo van Gogh, the State of emergency in India, the book captures rare moments in contemporary history that readers would treasure not just for themselves but for the posterity.

Here you will find a distinguished poet churning out his best prose, at best of his poetic capabilities.

ISBN81-8250-012-5
Published by Nirala Publications New Delhi-2 2010 Price:395 Non- Fiction Hard Cover

New

Annapurna Poems Review--A Trek with the Buddhist Bard

2009-10-17T09:26:00.001-07:00

http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/atrekwiththebuddhabard.aspx

ECS News Space Cake Amsterdam Book Launch

2009-10-13T20:09:00.001-07:00

Space Cake, Amsterdam, and Other Poems Nepal
Tourism Board
September 2, 2009
The prelaunch of 'Space Cake, Amsterdam, and Other Poems from Europe and America' was held on the 2nd of September in the Lecture Hall of Nepal Tourism Board. Yuyutsu RD Sharma, an eminent poet and translator, who delivered a few of his favorite poems and shared some personal experiences of his travel. Poems titled 'At 40 you die', 'Temple London' and 'Space Cake, Amsterdam' were discussed among others. Sharma shared the feeling of euphoria and paranoia he'd experienced. A 'space cake,' (common in regions with liberal drug policies), are bakery products containing a form of cannabis usually hash or marijuana. Edited by Michael Annis, the book contains poems that celebrate the political and social aspects of life. Sharma also shared with the audience how he was boisterously travelling about spreading poetry, passion and knowledge about the Himalayas. Although it is already published by Howling Dog Press, (Colorado, U.S.A), 'Space Cake, Amsterdam, and Other Poems from Europe and America' is being published by Nirala Publications (New Delhi) too and is already available in Kathmandu's White Lotus Book Shop.

Press Release--New Book Share

2009-10-12T09:38:00.000-07:00

Press Release from Nirala-- New book Share
Yuyutsu RD Sharma's Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow

Annapurnas & Stains of Blood is a highly engrossing account of world’s youngest republic passing through great historic transformation.

Internationally known poet and columnist for several dailies including The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Post, Yuyutsu RD Sharma for the first time brings alive the secret commotion behind the great change in Himalayan nation that the whole world has been watching curiously. In his lucent prose, he puts together his best to unleash the myriad colors of violence in the contemporary Nepal and in the rest of the world during his legendry travels.

Terror on the deserted Nepalese highways, merciless butchering of innocent Nepali workers in Baghdad, dismal day of London Bombing, murder of Theo van Gogh, the State of emergency in India, the book captures rare moments in contemporary history that readers would treasure not just for themselves but for the posterity.

Here you will find a distinguished poet churning out his best prose, at best of his poetic capabilities.

ISBN81-8250-012-5
Published by
Nirala Publications
New Delhi-2
2010 Price:395
Non- Fiction

Nirala Series-- Checklist

2009-10-12T09:07:00.000-07:00

Nirala Series

A Series of Contemporary Writing

Annapurna & Stains of Blood

Life, travels Writing on a page of snow

Yuyutsu R D Sharma

ISBN 81-8250- 012-5 2010 Hard pp.200 Rs. 195

The Price of Heaven

Travel Stories from India and Nepal

Evald Flisar

Translated from Slovene

by the Author & Alan McConnel-Duff

ISBN 81-8250- 020-6 2009 Paper pp.200 Rs. 195

Baghdad, February 1991

&Other Poems

Ronny Someck

Translated into Nepali by Yuyutsu RD Sharma

ISBN 81-8250- 018-4 2009 Hard pp.200 Rs. 250

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti

Collected by Shiva Dhakal

Adapted by Yuyutsu RD Sharma

ISBN 81-8250-002-0 2009 Paper pp.125 Rs. 195

Trance, Initiation & Psychotherapy in Nepalese Shamanism

Essays on Tamang and Tibetan Shamanism

Larry G.Peters

ISBN 81-85693-79-X 2004 Hard pp.412 Rs. 595

Tamang Shamans

An Ethnopsychiatric Study of Ecstasy and Healing in Nepal

Larry G. Peters

ISBN 81-8250-009-5 2007 Paper pp.179 Rs. 295

The Yeti

Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans

Larry G. Peters

ISBN 81-85693-57-9 2004 Hard pp.128 Rs. 250

Ocean in a Drop

Yoga, Meditation and Life in the Himalayas

Swami Chandresh

ISBN 81-8250- 005-2 2006 Hard pp.348 Rs. 495

Maoists in the Land of Buddha

An Analytical Study of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

Prakash A. Raj

ISBN 81-85693-42-0 2004 Hard pp.210 Rs. 395

Rana Rule in Nepal

Shaphalya Amatya

ISBN 81-85693-67-6 2004 Hard pp.408 Rs. 695

The Gurkha Connection

A History of Gurkha Recruitment in the British Army

Purushottam Baskota

ISBN 81-85693-77-3 2009 Paper pp.221 Rs. 195

Dolpo :The Hidden Paradise

A Journey to the Endangered Sanctuary of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal

Karna Sakya

ISBN 81-85693-73-0 2006 Paper pp.246 Rs. 295

Malla Coins of Medieval Nepal

Jagdish Chandra Regmi

ISBN 81-85693-60-9 2009 Hard Rs. 295

The Dhimals: Miraculous Migrants of Himal

An Anthropological Study of a Nepalese Ethnic Group

Rishikeshab Raj Regmi

ISBN 81-8250-009-7 1991 Hard pp.269 Rs. 195

The Gurungs: Thunder of Himal

A Cross-Cultural Study of a Nepalese Ethnic Group

Murari P. Regmi

ISBN 81-85693-49-8 2002 Paper pp.238 Rs. 295

The Gurkhas

A History of the Recruitment in the British Indian Army

Kamal Raj Singh Rathaur

ISBN 81-85693-85-4 2000 Paper pp.128 Rs. 195

The Political Economy of Land,

Landlessness and Migration in Nepal

Nanda R. Shrestha

ISBN 81-85693-87-0 2001 Hard pp.309 Rs. 450

Tourism in Nepal

Marketing Challenges

Hari Prasad Shrestha

ISBN 81-85693-69-2 2000 Hard pp.399 Rs. 495

Ethnic Conflict in Bhutan

Political and Economic Dimensions

Mathew Joseph C.

ISBN 81-85693-68-4 1999 Hard pp.251 Rs. 395

Mountain Dimensions

An Altitude Geographic Analysis

of Environment and Development of the Himalayas

Ram Kumar Pandey

ISBN 81-85693-43-9 1999 pp.260 Hard Rs. 350

Wildlife in Nepal

Rishikesh Shaha & Richard M. Mitchell

With Color Plates by Nanda Shumsher J.B. Rana

ISBN 81-85693-31-5 2001 Paper pp.142 Rs. 250

Nepal: Missing Elements in the Development Thinking

Gunanidhi Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-66-8 2000 Hard pp.282 Rs. 295

Recent Nepal

An Analysis of Recent Democratic Upsurge and its Aftermath

Laksman Bhadur K.C.

ISBN 81-85693-24-2 1993 Hard pp.242 Rs. 295

Making of Modern Nepal

A Study of History, Art and Culture of the Principalities of Western Nepal

Ram Niwas Pandey

ISBN 81-85693-37-4 1997 Hard pp.816 Rs. 795

Politics and Development in Nepal:

Some Issues

Narayan Khadka

ISBN 81-85693-21-8 1994 Hard pp.477 Rs. 450

Hindu-Buddhist Festival of Nepal

Hemant Kumar Jha

ISBN 81-85693-40-4 1996 Hard pp.117 Rs. 195

Art and Culture of Nepal

An Attempt towards Preservation

Saphalya Amatya

ISBN 81-85693-63-3 1999 Hard pp.282 Rs. 295

Popular Deities, Emblems and Images of Nepal

Dhruba Krishna Deep

ISBN 81-85693-39-0 2003 Paper pp.180 Rs. 150

Vishwarupa Mandir

A study of Changu Narayan, Nepal’s most Ancient Temple

Jeff Lidke

ISBN 81-85693-59-3 2000 Hard pp.213 Rs. 1495

Religious Minorities in Nepal

An Analysis of the State of Buddhists & Muslims in the Himalayan Kingdom

Mollica Dostider

ISBN 81-85693-47-1 1996 Hard pp.213 Rs. 185

Human Rights in Hindu Buddhist Traditions

Lal Deosa Rai

ISBN 81-85693-63-3 1995 Hard pp.188 Rs. 250

Fire of Himal

An Anthropological Study of the Sherpas of the Nepal Himalayan Region

Ramesh Raj Kunwar

ISBN 81-85693-64-1 1999 paper pp.314 Rs. 295

The Khasa Kingdom

A Trans-Himalayan Empire of the Middle Ages

Surya Mani Adhikary

ISBN 81-85693-50-1 1997 Paper pp.215 Rs. 250

Nepal

A Concise History of the Cultural Scenario of the Himalayan Kingdom

Jagdish Shumsher Rana

ISBN 81-85693-24-2 1993 Hard pp.242 Rs. 295

Bhutan: A Movement in Exile

JD.N. S. Dhakal & Christopher Strawn

ISBN 81-8250-001-2 2009 Paper pp.242 Rs. 395

Encounter Wildlife in Nepal

Karna Sakya

ISBN 81-85693-38-2 1993 Hard pp.296 Rs. 495

Nepal-India

Democracy in the Making of Mutual Trust

Dinesh Bhattarai & Pradip Khatiwada

ISBN 81-85693-36-6 1993 Hard pp.324 Rs. 295

The Himalayan Mind

A Cross-cultural Nepalese Investigation

Murari P Regmi

ISBN 81-85693-29-3 1997 Hard pp.240 Rs. 250

Kathmandu Patan & Bhaktapur

An Archaeological Anthropology of the Royal Cities of the Kathmandu Valley

Rishikeshab Raj Regmi

ISBN 81-85693-30-7 1997 Hard pp.111 Rs. 250

A Glossary of Himalayan Buddhism

Jagdish Chandra Regmi

ISBN 81-85693-28-5 1994 Hard pp.212 Rs. 250

The Nepalala-Mahatmya

Legends on the Sacred Places and Deities of Nepal

Jairaj Acharya

ISBN 81-85693-27-7 1992 Hard pp.320 Rs. 400

Cultural Heritage of Nepal Terai

Ram Dayal Rakesh

ISBN 81-85693-26-9 1994 Hard pp.240 Rs. 250

The Nepali Congress

An Analysis of the Party’s Performance in the General Elections and its Aftermath

B.C. Upreti

ISBN 81-85693-33-1 1993 Hard pp.203 Rs. 295

Folk Tales from Mithila

Ram Dayal Rakesh

ISBN 81-85693-55-2 1996 Hard pp.126 Rs. 195

Gods and Mountains

The Folk Culture of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal

Kesar Lal

ISBN 81-85693-12-9 1993 Hard pp.176 Rs. 200

Indo-Nepal Trade Relations

A Historical Analysis of Nepal’s Trade with the British India

Shri Ram Upadhyaya

ISBN 81-85693-20-X 1992 pp.287 Rs. 350

Secrets of Shangri-La

An Inquiry into the Lore, Legend and Culture of Nepal

Nagendra Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-18-8 1992 pp.292 Rs. 250

The Taming of Tibet

A Historical Account of Compromise and Confrontation

in Nepal-Tibet Relations (1900-1930)

Tirtha Prasad Mishra

ISBN 81-85693-16-1 1991 pp.324 Rs. 300

Glimpses of Tourism, Airlines and Management in Nepal

B.R. Singh

ISBN 81-85693-15-3 1991 pp.128 Rs.125

Sales Promotion in Nepal

Policies and Practices

Parashar Prasad Koirala

ISBN 81-85693-14-5 1991 pp.196 Rs. 225

Transit of Land Locked Countries and Nepal

Gajendra Mani Pradhan

ISBN 81-85693-08-0 1990 pp.240 225

Fundamentals of Library and Information Science

A Nepalese Response

Madhusudan Sharma Subedi

ISBN 81-85693-07-4 1990 pp.229 Rs. 225

Folk Culture of Nepal

An Analytical Study

Ram Dayal Rakesh

ISBN 81-85693-06-4 1990 Hard pp.129 Rs. 100

A Macro-economic Study of the Nepalese Plan Performance

Gunanidhi Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-06-4 1989 pp.129 Rs. 100

Sources of Inflation in Asia

Theory and Evidences

Raghab D. Pant

ISBN 81-85693-03-X 1988 Hard pp.118 Rs.100

New Directions in Nepal- India Relations

Rishikesh Shaha

ISBN 81-85693-53-6 1995 Paper pp.59 Rs. 65

LITERATURE

Annapurna Poems

Yuyutsu RD Sharma

ISBN 81-8250-013-5 2008 Hard pp.150 Rs. 295

After Tagore

Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore

David Ray

ISBN 81-8250-007-9 2007 Hard pp. 115 Rs. 295

Hunger of Our Huddled Huts

& Other Poems

Yuyutsu R.D.

ISBN 81-85693-80-3 2007 pp.65 Rs. 95

Kathmandu

Poems Selected and New (An English/Nepali Bilingual Edition)

Cathal O Searcaigh

Translated from the Gaelic by Seamus Heaney,

John Montague and others

Translated into the Nepali by Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma

ISBN 81-8250-006-0 2006 Hard pp. 105 Rs. 250

The Lake Fewa & a Horse

Poems New

Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-34-X 2005 Paper pp. 108 Rs. 125

Muna Madan

A Play in the Jhyaure Folk Tradition

Laxmi P. Devkota

Translated from the Nepali by Anand P. Shrestha

ISBN 81-85693-94-3 2000 pp.65 Rs. 85

Fever (Short Stories)

Sita Pandey

Translated from the Nepali

ISBN 81-85693-93-5 2001 Paper pp.96 Rs. 95

Says Meera

An Anthology of Devotional Songs of Meera,

India’s Greatest Woman Poet

Translated from the Hindi by Vijay Munshi

ISBN 81-85693-96-X 2001 Paper pp.76 Rs. 195

Some Female Yeti & other Poems

Yuyutsu R.D.

ISBN 81-8250-010-9 2007 pp.68 Rs. 95

In the City of Partridges (Poems)

Jagdish Chatturvedi

ISBN 81-85693-99-4 2004 Paper pp.90 Rs. 95

Roaring Recitals: Five Nepali Poets

Gopal Prasad Rimal, Bhupi Sherchan, Shailendra & Others

Translated from the Nepali by

Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-95-1 1999 Hard pp.99 Rs. 150

Summer Rain

Three Decades of Poetry

K. Satchidanandan

ISBN 81-85693-90-0 1995 Paper pp.188 Rs. 150

Sheet of Snow

An Anthology of Stories from the Himalayas

Translated from the Nepali by Nagendra Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-61-7 1997 paper pp.125 Rs. 95

Dispossessed Nests: The 1984 Poems

Jayanta Mahapatra

ISBN 81-85693-74-9 1986 pp.69 Paper Rs. 150

To the Battlefield on an Elephant

Columns of Fire

Tara Nath Sharma

ISBN 81-85693-44-7 1999 pp.164 paper Rs. 195

The Change

A Novel based on the 1990 Democratic Upsurge in Nepal

Rishikeshab Raj Regmi

ISBN 81-85693-62-5 2001 pp.125 Rs. 95

Blackout (A Novel)

Tara Nath Sharma

Translated from the Nepali by Larry Hartsell

ISBN 81-85693-82-X 1990 pp.122 Rs. 100

Elysium in the Halls of Hell

Poems about India David Ray

ISBN 81-85693-84-6 1991 pp.160 Rs. 125

A Prayer in Daylight (Poems)

Yuyutsu R.D.

ISBN 81-85693-72-2 1984 paper pp.68 Rs. 95

Dying in Rajasthan (Short Stories)

Ramanand Rathi

ISBN 81-85693-71-4 1985 pp.62 Rs. 95

The Black Sun (A Novel)

Bharat Jungam

ISBN 81-85693-84-6 1985 pp.78 Rs. 125

IN NEPALI LANGUAGE

Panaharu Khalichan : Kavitaka Dui Dashak (Poems)

Yuyustu R.D. Sharma

Hard (Forthcoming)

ISBN 81-8250-004-4 2007 Paper pp. 102 Rs. 150

Pashushala (Animal Farm) (A Novel)

Georege Orwell

Translated from the English by Bijuli Prasad Kayast

ISBN 81-8250-000-1 2004 Paper pp.96 Rs. 95

Nepalko Prajatantrik Andolan Ko Itihas

Surya Mani Adhikary

ISBN 81-85693-54-4 1998 Paper pp.468 Rs. 295

Geetajanjali (Nepali)

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Translated from the Bengali by

Ramesh Bhatta & Pashupati Neopane

ISBN 81-85693-83-8 2000 Paper pp.125 Rs. 95

Sarpahoru Geet Sundainan

Poems by Shailendra Sakar

ISBN 81-85693-97-8 1991 Hard pp.108 Rs. 95

Nirala Publications

Just published from Nirala

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti -- New Edition

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti

The Yeti:Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans

The Yeti

Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Diane Hamilton's book launch

Trance, Initiation & Psychotherapy in Nepalese Shamanism By Larry G. Peters

Part 2 -- Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

Part 2 -- Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

Yuyutsu Sharma launches David Austell's Little Creek and Other Poems published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi

David Austell reading from Little Creek (Nirala) at NYU Bookstore

David Austell reading from Little Creek (Nirala) at NYU Bookstore

Diane Hamilton's Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems

Diane Hamilton's Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems

Lizard Licking, Donegal is a exciting anthology of poems from a fresh American voice.

Yuyutsu Sharma to launch David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems"

Bowery Poetry Cafe, New York

Baghdad, February1991 and Other Poems by Ronny Someck

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow--New Nirala Book available at Store

Roaring Recitals-- Nirala book share

After Tagore-- by David Ray- New Book share

New Nirala Books available-- Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti

Folk Tales of Sherpa and YetiCollected by Shiva DhakalAdapted by Yuyutsu RD SharmaISBN 81-8250-002-0 2009 Paper pp.125 Rs. 195

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow--New Nirala Book available at Store

Annapurna Poems Review--A Trek with the Buddhist Bard

ECS News Space Cake Amsterdam Book Launch

Press Release--New Book Share

Nirala Series-- Checklist

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti -- New Edition

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti 

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti
Collected by Shiva Dhakal
Adapted by Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN 81-8250-002-0 2009 Paper pp.125 Rs. 195