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Pages: 134 pages

Category: Asian Poetry

Price: $7.00 USD / ₹ 593 INR via Pothi

Description: The Walking Rebel is a collection of micropoems and poems that celebrate thoughtful engagement and authentic philosophy. These short and longer pieces astound with grace and simplicity through their unique voice brought from Nepal.

Insightful and full of human warmth and love. A fine example of mystic realism. Sushant Thapa is a regular and much appreciated contributor to our magazine.

–Nick Victor, Editor, International Times Magazine, UK

Sushant Thapa is one of the modern phenomena of breaking geopolitical boundaries. His words embrace the humanity, and his works in this volume etch a universal longing and a modern micro-reinvention of the romantic era. It shows how much can be said with a few words.

–Kushal Poddar, Poet, journalist and illustrator

Sushant Thapa has a knack of looking beyond the visibly finite. This book would egg the readers on to think and delve into the terse lines that the poet has dished out. Within the boundaries of the pages, Sushant has painted a classical dichotomy – the undefined and the palpable.

– Rajorshi Patranabis, Poet, critic, reviewer, translator

Sample poem

The Presence of the Damned

Skin separates you and me.
This presence is a void
I continually desire our kingdom that banished me.

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Pages: 62 pages

Category: Fiction / Philosophy

Price: $12.00 USD / ₹ 510 INR via Pothi

Description: The White Dot and Other Stories is a collection of tales by Nepal’s Sushant Thapa. Each story is a microcosm of the human condition in a fragmented world where people incline to seek meaning as each moment defies assumptions and material reality. Do we seek resolution in artistic creation, reflection, nostalgia, risky actions, or critical analysis of ongoing global affairs? Thapa’s imagination contextualizes the richness of the difficult human experience as our relation to the world is abstracted and distant, yet our emotional sympathies cannot be torn from each other or the solitude we crave for peace. Contains black and white illustrations. Foreword by Prof. Nandini Sahu.

“This attentiveness to the everyday, infused with philosophical density, situates the collection in a broader South Asian literary tradition that values introspection as a mode of resistance and survival. The White Dot and Other Stories is both intimate and expansive, anchored in Nepal’s lived realities yet reaching toward universal human concerns. Sushant Thapa writes with restraint and depth, crafting stories that linger long after they are read. They do not intend to provide answers, rather they sharpen our unanswered questions.”

– Prof. Nandini Sahu, from her Foreword

Read a sample story from the book,

“Never Agreeing with Kids”

Author bio: Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal, with ten books of poems to his credit. The books are: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan Publishers, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, New York, Dakar, Senegal, 2023), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024), Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024), My Grandfather Had Been a Cowboy (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2025), The Walking Rebel Micropoems and Poems (Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas, USA, 2025) and When I Desire and Other Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2026). Thapa holds an M.A. in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India. Curriculum Development Center has approved a poem by Sushant Thapa titled “Festivities” to be taught in Grade 6 in Nepal. It is included in the book Paragon English. Sushant has also published his collection of flash fiction and short stories titled The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal from Ukiyoto Publishing in 2024. He teaches English language and literature to university level students in Biratnagar, Nepal. He has also translated a book of poems from Nepali to English by Kamal Dhungana titled “Dark Shadows.” Sushant also frequently shares his writing on his Substack at https://substack.com/@sushantthapa. Currently, he is working on his debut novel.