Laxmi ji: Remembering a true teacher

For my lessons, he would only bring a pen and a few written notes with him. But with just his pen and his notes, he would open up a whole new universe.

I first met Laxmi Nath Shrestha during a coffee break at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, back in 2007. I was attending a summer school in spoken Sanskrit, and he was teaching spoken Nepali at the South Asia Institute. The passion with which he was explaining new Nepali words and expressions to his students during the breaks, while sharing tea and biscuits, really struck me, which was why the following year I decided to attend the spoken Nepali course with him, where he introduced me for the first time to Nepali language and culture.