Retro Chic
The People’s Poet Who Preserved Identity

To us, Durgalal Shrestha is known as a People’s Poet in Nepalbhasha, a dramatist, a lyricist, a revolutionary, a true master who fought and survived for Nepalbhasha and Nepali literature. But for himself, he is no extraordinaire but someone who got lucky while searching for his true calling. Born in the year 1937 AD in a small cultural paradise of Kathmandu named Itumbahal, he was raised in a Newah family with its deep rooted values and cultures. For ...