Doctor-poets and resistance

A common love for poetry among medical professionals sustains a unique tradition of Nepali medical pedagogy.

A recent demonstration by doctors of the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan exhibited a creative mode of resistance. The young doctors recited their poems to highlight their demands for reform and proper management of the institute by its officials. The resistance movement was initiated by those creative youths who have been writing poetry for years. The agitation is underway even as I write these lines.