‘The only way to be a writer is to write and write’

While Sulochana Manandhar Dhital today is known more as a writer and poet, in her younger days, she was a revolutionary who spent years trying to change society.

In her younger days, Sulochana Manandhar Dhital had a wayward spirit. In the late ’60s, it was customary for girls to be married off in their teens. Manandhar, who was born in 1955, had already turned down an arranged marriage proposal by the age of 18 and had made it clear to everyone that she was going to forge her own path.