Prem Bahadur Kansakar

Prem Bahadur Kansakar (Nepali: प्रेमबहादुर कंसाकार) (1918–1991) was a Nepalese fighter for democracy and linguistic rights, author and scholar of Nepal Bhasa.

In Kathmandu during his college holidays, he came into contact with Ganga Lal Shrestha through Dharma Ratna Yami, and was greatly impressed by the young revolutionary.

In 1942, moved by Ganga Lal's death, Kansakar became a member of the Radical Democratic Party founded by Indian nationalist M. N. Roy.

He left his teaching job to travel to Kolkata, India to join other Nepalese democracy fighters, but was stopped on the way and confined to Kathmandu.

In 1947, he slipped out of the country and went to Varanasi to attend a convention of the Nepal Rastriya Congress, a political party of Nepalese freedom fighters.

In 1948 in Kolkata, Mahendra Bikram Shah and Kansakar established the Nepali Democratic Congress as president and general secretary respectively.

[10][11] In 1950, Kansakar and a fellow writer Madan Lochan Singh established a literary society named Chwasa Pasa (meaning "Pen Friend") in Kolkata.

[17] Kansakar was the chief editor of Situ (Devanagari: सितु) (meaning "Holy Grass"), a bimonthly literary magazine in Nepal Bhasa.