Pagal (Nepali: पागल, lit.
'The Lunatic') is a 1953 poem by Nepalese writer Laxmi Prasad Devkota.
[1] In 1939, Devkota's brothers admitted him to a mental hospital in Ranchi, British India where he stayed at the hospital for five months.
[2][3] Pagal was published in 1953 and it was translated to English as The Lunatic by Laxmi Prasad Devkota in 1956.
[4] Pagal is one of the popular poems in Nepal and it is sometimes regarded as a classic poem of Nepali literature.