Karna Das

[3][4] His lyrics spans topics such as philosophical and existential issues of mankind, perseverance, overcoming ordeals, lamentation, hope, anti-fatalism, and patriotism.

[2] Drawing inspiration from the Indian poet Nida Fazli, from his poem "Jindagi Kya Hai Chalta Firta", Das had drafted the song when he was studying in grade 9.

Das recalls in his church congregation in Pokhara, he would explain [5] the crux of his song, that our life lived out on purely materialistic grounds is fragile and limited.

His musical inspirations include Elton John, Richard Marx, Scorpions, Michael Jackson, Gulam Ali of Pakistan, Lata Mangeshkar and the Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh of India, and Narayan Gopal of Nepal.

[5][4] Das was educated in Sunday School in his Church in Pokhara from early childhood to adolescence where he garnered his moral and musical lessons.

[5] In the milieu of Nepal's bucolic livelihood, raising and shepherding cattle and sheep were part of Das's regular chore.

[4] As a teenager, the first western music Das got antiquated to was Holiday by the German rock band Scorpions,[4] which grabbed him in astonishment.

Das was particularly touched by the Urdu lexicon and poetry, which was distinctly soaked with sentiment and meaning, and had a wide gamut of diverse and subtle connotations.

[4] By the time Das was a young adult, he had already garnered a holistic taste for western, Indian, and Nepali songs that especially packed meaningful depth and sentiment.

[9] During, the thick of the civil war in Nepal waged under the Maoist insurgency, Das in the early 2000s, released a couple of albums targeting the listeners of the war-stuck nation.

Assessing in retrospect, Das considers his life's journey including the hiatus as carefully planned and worked out by God.

[3] He considers the almighty pulled him through the highs and lows with a purpose — to teach Das life lessons of immense significance, and to seep in him deeper perspective into reality, which he would not have garnered otherwise.

[3] In 2016, he resumed his music in Nepal, and catering to his life-long fans, released the album "Euta Naya Asha" (A New Hope).