Remembering Durga Lal Shrestha, the people’s poet

As a musician and poet, Durga Lal Shrestha stood tall. In the struggle against the Panchayat system, he gave Nepali literature and music some of the most powerful and moving verse and songs.

That same people’s poet passed away Sunday night at his residence in Budhanilkantha, at the age of 93. Though his ancestral home was in Thamel, he had in recent years been living at his son Suman’s residence in Budhanilkantha.