I. Invitation to Participate: We invite people interested in Devkota scholarship to present their research findings and scholarly articles at our monthly programmes that are held on the last Saturday of the Nepali month.

We welcome papers, talks, pannel discussions, etc. Please contact us if you would like to present anything in our monthly programmes.

We invite foreign scholars too to read Devkota in this website or elsewhere and to send us your studied responses to Devkota literature. We prefer textual analysis rather than cogitations on Devkota's philosophy.

II. List of scholars who have written a doctoral dissertation on Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota:

III. New Findings on Devkota

According to Biographer Nityaraj Pandey, Devkota's "Purnimako Jaladhi" was the first poem to be published in Gorkhapatra of Friday November 30, 1934. However, another poem titled "Shodasi Sundari" has been found to have been published in Gorkhapatra in two parts on Baishakha 18 and 25, 1985, corresponding to April 30 and May 7, 1928.

IV Some Suggested Research Areas on Devkota's Works

The following titles are suggested by the two-day seminar on Devkota organised by Universal College, Maitidevi, from April 17-18, 2009.

1. The Magic of the Wonderous Past: Devkota and Celebration of Eastern Antiquity
2. By the Glow of Ancient Fires: Greek Myth in Dekvota's Poetry
3. Devkota and Nepali Romanticism
4. Devkota and Public Poetry: the Bapu Sonnets
5. Devkota and Creation of Protest Poetry
6. Devkota and the Nepali Political Poetry
7. Celebrating the Woodland Life: Devkota and Nature Poetry
8. Beyond Caste, Class and Group: Creation of Nepalese Identity in Dekvota's Poetry
9. Devkota and Imagist Movement
10. Portrayal of Ethnic Life/Culture in Devkota's Narrative Poems: Luni, Mhendu, Muna-Madan
11. The Underclass, the Oppressed and the Marginalized in Devkota's Poetry
12. Devkota and Tragic Vision: Sulochana, Kunjini, Champa
13. Giving Voice to the Subaltern: Poetic Response to Nepali Revolution 1948-1951
14. Encounter with Colonial English and Nepali: Creation of Language Identity in Devkota's Essays
15. The World Beyond: Nepalese in Foreign Armed Services
16. Eastern Womanhood in Devkota's Poetry
17. Celebrating Nepali Nation: Images of Nepali Nation in Devkota's Poetry
18. Through the Vision of Children: Devkota's Short Stories
19. Devkota and Children's Literature
20. Devkota in Translation/ Comparative Study
21. Of Evil Born:The Villainy of Myth and Real Life

Devkota Research Fellowship Awards

1. June 6, 2009. Devkota Centre granted the 2009 Devkota Centenary Research Fellowship Award jointly to Phatik Poudel, Tara Adhikary, and Kumar Adhikary. The three scholars will jointly write a research paper on "Devkota as a Playwright." They will also translate Krishi-Bala into English.

Devkota Research Study Awards

1. July 13, 2009. Devkota Centre granted a Research Study Award of Rs. 15,000.00 (fifteen thousand only) to Laxman Gautam. He will conduct a research on "Beyond Caste, Class and Group: Creation of Nepalese Identity in Devkota's Poetry" and present his research at the One Hundred and First Birth Anniversary of Laxmi Prasad Devkota.

2. July 14, 2009. Devkota Centre granted a Research Study Award of Rs. 15,000.00 (fifteen thousand only) jointly to Saroj Ghimire and Ghanashyam Bhandari. They will conduct a research on "Creation of Language Identity in Devkota's Poetry in English" and present their research at the One Hundred and First Birth Anniversary of Laxmi Prasad Devkota.

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