Keeping the Deuda tradition alive

Niruta Khatri pursued her passion for Deuda music and is working to revitalise the fading art form. She had to overcome a challenging upbringing and family doubts to do so.

We often hear Nepalis abroad deeply cherish their homeland despite the inevitability of living in foreign lands, distant and often cold. This sentiment of longing and isolation can be described in two lines of a Deuda song: