His revolutionary poetry aroused freedom fighters, and he was sentenced to 18 years in jail for his literary activities.

In this poem, he has expressed how proud he is to describe the place Okhaldhunga in eastern Nepal, where he was born and grew up.

His father Bishnu Charan (novelist) worked for the government and wrote novels like Sumati and Bhismapratigya.

[3][4] In 1940, Shrestha was accused of sedition by the Rana regime and sentenced to 18 years in prison for a poem he had written in Nepal Bhasa.

He was the editor of Nepal's first daily newspaper Awaj which was launched on 19 February 1951, a day after the Ranas were overthrown in a revolution.

In 1993, Nepal's Postal Services Department issued a commemorative postage stamp bearing a portrait of Shrestha to honor his contribution to Nepalese literature.