Nepal’s literature doesn’t have to be in Nepali. We have other languages too

Using local texts for education and formal discourses encourages future generations to learn more about the marginalised languages.

Last summer, I was looking for old Maithili literary texts in the sweltering heat of Janakpurdham for internship work. To my dismay, many local publishers confessed that they did not know what to do with old literary texts and ended up throwing them or using them as scrap paper.