He is the editor of La.Lit: A Literary Magazine from Nepal, and the author of Nothing to Declare (Penguin India, 2011) and Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu (Speaking Tiger, 2016).
From 2010 to 2011, he was the editor of the weekly paper Nepali Times.
Rabi Thapa published Nothing to Declare (Penguin India) in 2011.
This debut collection of short stories was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
[2] In 2016, he published Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu (Speaking Tiger Books), a cultural history of a historic Kathmandu neighborhood.