[4][5] He is known as Akhyan Purush(towering personality) in Nepali literary circle.

He grew up reading Nepali classics as well as the Hindi translations of the works of Bengali writers, Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

[citation needed] In the early 1960s, he moved to Kathmandu and published a poem in the literary magazine Ruprekha and a novel, Antya Pachi(Nepali: अन्त्य पछी, lit.

While in Kathmandu, he read the works of European writers such as Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud.

He was one of the founding members of PEN Center in , Nepal with writers Greta Rana, Toya Gurung, Ashesh Malla, Bhuwan Dhungana, etc.