Contemplating society’s different realities

Mahesh Paudyal's Shunya Praharko Sakshi, an anthology of 108 short poems, reflects diverse human experiences with acute literary sensibility

The landscape of Nepali poetry has historically undergone a crucial debate: whether poetry should be interventionist or should it be a spontaneous and lucid expression of subjective feelings. Irrespective of the debate, an informed poetry reader is likely to accept that a poem must reflect sincere human experience.