The birth and life of Nepal’s most iconic revolutionary song

Once anathema to the then regime, ‘Gaun Gaun Bata Utha’ has become Nepal’s go-to anti-establishment anthem.

In 1979, Shyam Tamot wrote, composed, and sang ‘Gaun Gaun Bata Utha’, Nepal’s most famous revolutionary song. Tamot, who was 20 then and a commerce student at Mahendra College, Dharan, had not thought in his wildest imagination that the song would go on to become such a huge hit.