News at Eleven: Deprivation taught the Mukarung family

to manage with bare essentials. "We have trained ourselves to live in Kathmandu on 5,000 to 6,000 rupees a month," he said. That includes the rent of two rooms and a kitchen, schooling for his daughter and food for the family.

After having six published works in the market, [Shrawan] Mukarung is fully aware that publishers generally exploit writers.

"There is royalty of 40 percent to writers, but that is after deducting the cost of publishing and also after the distributor decides that he has stolen enough from the writer," he said.

from Republica: Poet who fought a despot

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