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Nepali Lok Katha (Nepali: नेपाली लोककथा, lit. 'Nepalese folk tales') is a Nepali-language folk tales collection by Tulasi Diwasa. It was published in 2031 BS (1974 -1975 CE) by Nepali Rajakiya Pragya Pratisthan. [1] It consists of folktales form various regions and languages across Nepal.
He also wrote successful 'laghu katha's' [mini stories] from the 50s, through the 80s. His short stories of 60's, 70's and even 80's became immensely popular and received a dedicated readership. His writings got translated into various languages including English, Urdu, Punjabi and Kannada.
Through the 1960s, under its founding editor Balkrishna Rao and later under Rajendra Awasthi, Kadambini and a few other leading publications of the time, started publishing short stories (laghu katha) by leading writers like Agyeya, Mahadevi Verma, Kunwar Narayan and Ramanada Doshi.
The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu. A guru is usually represented by a '-–' and a laghu by a '⌣'. For easy specification of meters, the laghu's and guru's are grouped into feet (called ganam) as follows:
Katha (or Kathya) is an Indian style of religious storytelling, performances of which are a ritual event in Hinduism. It often involves priest -narrators ( kathavachak or vyas ) who recite stories from Hindu religious texts , such as the Puranas , the Ramayana or Bhagavata Purana , followed by a commentary ( Pravachan ).
Laghu is the component of a tālam which is the variant part. Its beat count is dependent on the jāti of the tālam. The action for counting includes a tap / clap, followed by a count of sub-beats of the full rhythm cycle. Note that a tisra jāti laghu is actually 1 clap and 2 counts = 3 beats.
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Laghu (pronounced ), also known as Hoatana or Katova, is an extinct language of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands. Its last speaker died in 1984. Its last speaker died in 1984. People in the villages of Baolo and Samasodu, where it used to be spoken, now speak the neighboring Zabana language , which is more widely spoken and still expanding ...