Nepali events do garner international attention, and at times recognition. Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democray by Manjushree Thapa, a Nepali author writing in English, gets shortlisted for the prestigiousLettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage 2006. Thapa’s highly-acclaimed reportage of the convoluted court politics and the politics of internal conflict competed with 6 other finalists. Interestingly, another book (The Inheritance Of Loss), by the famed South Asian author Kiran Desai, and set against the Nepali insurgency in Darjeeling during the 1980s, has won Britain’s most prestigious The Man Booker Prize For Fiction 2006. • Manjushree Thapa not for activism but for engaged writing, Oh My News
• Kiran's Kalimpong connection, Times of India
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