Symposium on Nepali folk literature to begin today

Pokhara, March 16

The Department of Nepali at Prithvi Narayan Campus is organising an international symposium on Nepali folk literature.

The two-day event is starting tomorrow in Pokhara where folk literature researchers from India, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, the United States of America, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom will participate with 21 working papers on the topic, according to programme coordinator Prof Dr Kushumakar Neupane.

Chief of the department associate professor Krishna Prasad Poudel said folk literature was on the bottom of the priority list of academic research and study programmes. The objective is to highlight the importance of folk literature nationally and internationally, encourage the new generation to get involved in research and promote folk literature.

Folk songs, stories, narrations, poems and riddles are among the genres of folk literature. The history of Nepali folk literature is long, but had started appearing in written form with the publication of Danfeshari magazine some six decades ago.

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