Gurung worked as a teacher in a school and wrote this book from his various experiences with his pupils.

[2] Pathshala is a coming of age story of a Nepalese teenage boy.

It depicts the story of an urban teenager and presents the various the elements of his social life—friends, family, school.

It sheds light on the growing pains of an adolescent child in a city.

[4] The book won the International Nepali Literary Society Best Novel Award for the year 2019.