First Story Collection 'Khadama' by Mahendra Mahak Launched

Kathmandu. Story writer Mahendra Mahak's first story collection 'Khadama' has been released. At the release program of the collection published by Bela Publication Pvt. Ltd., critics said that the work has presented the life, pain, struggle, and hope of Nepali laborers in foreign employment in a narrative form.

Critic Naveen Vibhash described 'Khadama' as a representative story collection of the laboring class of Nepali society. According to him, the stories in the collection present the compulsive situation of going for foreign employment, especially the oppression faced by female characters, and the optimistic tone seen amidst it.