Lil Bahadur Chettri

Nepali language Indian writer

Novelist
short story writer
essayist
literary critic

LanguageNepali, EnglishNationalityIndianEducationMasters in EconomicsAlma materGuwahati UniversityNotable worksBasain, Brahmaputraka ChheuChhauNotable awardsSahitya Akademi Award, 1987
Jagadamba Shree Purasakar, 2016
Padmashri, 2020

Lil Bahadur Chettri (Nepali: लील बहादुर क्षेत्री) is an Indian writer in the Nepali language from Assam, India.^[1] He is a recipient of Sahitya Academy Award for his book Brahmaputrako Chheu Chhau. His other book Basain is a story of poor villagers who undergo suffering due to the exploitation of the feudal and so-called upper class of the society. It is included in the curriculum of Tribhuvan University, Nepal.^[2]^[3] In 2016, he was honoured with Jagadamba Shree Purasakar for his contribution to the Nepali literature and language.^[4] In 2020, Government of India awarded him Padmashri, the fourth highest civilian award of India for his contribution in literature and education.^[5]

Works

Novels

Basain (1957)
Brahmaputraka ChheuChhau (1986)
Atripta (1969)

Essays

Assam Ma Nepali Bhasako Sharogharo (Difficulties of Nepali Language in Assam)

Plays

Dobato (Crossroads)

Short stories collection

Tindasak Bis Abhibyakti (Twenty Expressions In Three Decades)
Lil Bahadur Chettri ka Kathaharu

References

^ "Gorkhapatra". Gorkhapatra. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
^ Kunda Dixit. "Not lost in translation". Nepali Times. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
^ Namrata Guragain. "बसाइं–एक अनुभुती". Nepali Post. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
^ "Ram Lal Joshi wins Madan Puraskar, Assam-based Lil Bahadur Chettri gets Jagadamba Shree". The Himalayan Times. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
^ "Padma Vibhushan for Mary Kom, Padma Bhushan for SC Jamir, Padma Shri for 13 others from Northeast". NENOW. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.

Nepali literature

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Festivals

Nepal Literature Festival

Literary awards

Literary movements

Writers

Fiction writers	Amar Neupane Ambalika Devi Asit Rai Banira Giri Bhawani Bhikshu Bhim Nidhi Tiwari Bhuwan Dhungana Bikram Bir Thapa Binod Prasad Dhital Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala Buddhisagar Chandra Prakash Baniya Chhinnalata Chuden Kabimo Daulat Bikram Bista Dhanush Chandra Gautam Dhooswan Sayami Dhruba Chandra Gautam Diamond Shumsher Rana Girish Ballabh Joshi Gopal Prasad Rimal Govinda Bahadur Malla Guman Singh Chamling Guru Prasad Mainali Hemang Dixit Indra Bahadur Rai Krishna Dharabasi Kumar Nagarkoti Leeladhwaj Thapa Madan Mani Dixit Mahesh Bikram Shah Manu Brajaki Maya Thakuri Nanda Hangkhim Narayan Wagle Nayan Raj Pandey Lil Bahadur Chettri Neelam Karki Niharika Parashu Pradhan Parijat Peter J. Karthak Prema Shah Rajan Mukarung Ramesh Bikal Ramlal Joshi Rudra Raj Pande Sanjeev Uprety Sanu Sharma Shakti Ballav Aryal Shanti Mishra Sharada Sharma Shikhar Ghimirey Shiva Kumar Rai Subin Bhattarai Sushila Karki Sushma Joshi Tarini Prasad Koirala Yubraj Nayaghare
Poets	Abhi Subedi Agam Singh Giri Ali Miya Bairagi Kainla Bhanubhakta Acharya Bhim Nidhi Tiwari Bhola Rijal Bhupi Sherchan Bimala Tumkhewa Bina Theeng Tamang Byakul Maila Chadani Shah Chakrapani Chalise Chittadhar Hridaya Dharanidhar Koirala Dharmendra Bikram Nembang Durga Lal Shrestha Gadul Singh Lama Geeta Tripathee Gopal Parajuli Gopal Prasad Rimal Gyandil Das Hangyug Agyat Hari Bhakta Katuwal Ishwor Ballav Kamala Sankrityayan Kedar Man Vyathit Komalnath Adhikari Krishnahari Baral Krishna Bhusan Bal Kshetra Pratap Adhikary Kul Bahadur KC Laxmi Prasad Devkota Lekhnath Paudyal Madhav Prasad Ghimire MBB Shah Manjul Mohan Koirala Motiram Bhatta Naba Raj Lamsal Nanda Hangkhim Nara Dev Pandey Neer Shah Ramesh Kshitij Ratna Shumsher Thapa Santosh Lamichhane Saraswati Pratikshya Sarita Tiwari Shrawan Mukarung Siddhicharan Shrestha Somnath Sigdel Suman Pokhrel Sulochana Manandhar Swapnil Smriti Toya Gurung Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap Upendra Subba Usha Sherchan Vishnu Raj Atreya Yogbir Singh Kansakar Yogmaya Neupane Yuyutsu Sharma
Playwrights and dramatists	Abhi Subedi Ashesh Malla Balkrishna Sama Bhim Nidhi Tiwari Bijaya Malla Master Mitrasen Pahalman Singh Swar Saru Bhakta Shambhu Prasad Dhungel Suman Pokhrel
Historians and sociologists	Ambika Prasad Upadhyaya Baburam Acharya Bhagi Raj Ingnam Chandra Prakash Baniya Chittaranjan Nepali Deepak Shimkhada Dor Bahadur Bista Iman Xin Chemjong Kumar Pradhan Satya Mohan Joshi Surya Bikram Gyawali Yogesh Raj Yogi Naraharinath
Essayists/critics/journalists	Bhairav Aryal Bharat Jangam Bharat Koirala Bhupal Rai Buddhi Narayan Shrestha C. K. Lal Dharma Ratna Yami Geeta Tripathee Gopal Parajuli Jaya Prithvi Bahadur Singh Kamal Mani Dixit Karna Shakya Khagendra Sangraula Khaptad Baba Krishna Chandra Singh Pradhan Krishna Lal Adhikari Madan Mohan Mishra Mahananda Poudyal Prithvi Narayan Shah Rewati Raman Khanal Riddhi Bahadur Malla Shankar Lamichhane Uttam Kunwar Vijay Kumar Pandey
Travel writers	Lain Singh Bangdel Taranath Sharma
Children's literature writers	Janak Prasad Humagain Prema Shah Shanta Das Manandhar Shukraraj Shastri
Linguists and grammarians	Bal Krishna Pokharel Chuda Mani Regmi Mahananda Sapkota Mukunda Sharan Upadhyaya Parasmani Pradhan Ram Raj Pant
Biographers	Jagadish Ghimire Jhamak Ghimire Nara Nath Acharya Nityaraj Pandey Radha Paudel Rookmangud Katawal Shanta Chaudhary
Folklorists	Kesar Lall Karunakar Vaidya Tulasi Diwasa

Novels

Aagat
Alikhit
Basain
Bir Charitra
Champa
Cheerharan
Damini Bhir
Draupadi Avashesh
Dumero
Faatsung
Ghamka Pailaharu
Juino
Jyoti Jyoti Mahajyoti
Kara
Karnali Blues
Loo
Madhabi
Maharani
Mann
Mayur Times
Modiaain
Mokshabhumi
Narendra Dai
Nathiya
Pagal Basti
Pathshala
Palpasa Café
Parityakta
Phirphire
Pratyek Thau : Pratyek Manchhe
Pretkalpa
Radha
Ramite
Ranahar
Rupamati
Saaya
Sakas
Sallipir
Seto Dharti
Shabdatit Shantanu
Shirishko Phool
Summer Love
Sumnima
Teen Ghumti
Ular
Yogmaya
Yojana Gandha

Poems/poetry collections

Non-fiction books

Abstract Chintan Pyaj
Antarmanko Yatra
Belaet Tira Baralida
China Harayeko Manchhe
Chhuteka Anuhar
Ek Haatko Taali
Hamro Lok Sanskriti
Janaral Bhimsen Thapa Ra Tatkalin Nepal
Jiwan Kada Ki Phool
Karnali Lok Sanskriti
Khusi
Khalangama Hamala
Limbuwanko Etihasik Dastavej Sangraha
Mahakavi Devkota
Makaiko Kheti
Nepalko Balinali ra Tinko Digo Kheti
Nyaya
Phoolko Aankhama
Prayogshala
Singha Durbarko Ghumne Mech
Srasta ra Sahitya
Yaar

Plays/musical dramas

Short story collections

Literary magazines

Sharada
Ruprekha

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Literature & Education
1950s	K. Shankar Pillai (1954) Krishna Kanta Handique (1955) Surya Kumar Bhuyan (1956) Sukhdev Pande (1956) Nalini Bala Devi (1957) S. R. Ranganathan (1957) Ram Chandra Varma (1958) Magan Lal Tribhuvandas Vyas (1958) K. S. Chandrasekharan (1958)
1960s	B. S. Kesavan (1960) Artaballabha Mohanty (1960) N. D. Sundaravadivelu (1961) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1961) Vishnukant Jha (1961) Jinvijay (1961) Evengeline Lazarus (1961)
1970s	Ananda Chandra Barua (1970) Sulabha Panandikar (1971)
1980s	Krishan Dutta Bharadwaj (1981) Abid Ali Khan (1981) Ram Punjwani (1981) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1982) R. V. Pandit (1982) Sher Singh Sher (1982) Gaura Pant Shivani (1982) Ahalya Chari (1983) Amitabha Chaudhuri (1983) Saliha Abid Hussain (1983) Komal Kothari (1983) Hundraj Lial Ram Dukhayal Manik (1983) Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (1983) Attar Singh (1983) Mayangnokcha Ao (1984) Kshem Suman Chandra (1984) Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat (1984) Shanta Gandhi (1984) Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1984) Qurratulain Hyder (1984) Ganpatrao Jadhav (1984) Syed Abdul Malik (1984) John Arthur King Martyn (1984) Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1984) Syed Hasan Askari (1985) Jamesh Dokhuma (1985) Kaka Hathrasi (1985) Bharat Mishra (1985) Harishankar Parsai (1985) Ashangbam Minaketan Singh (1985) Anil Agarwal (1986) Binod Kanungo (1986) Chitra Naik (1986) Abdur Rahman (1986) Nuchhungi Renthlei (1986) Raghunath Sharma (1986) Abdul Sattar (1987) Nazir Ahmed (1987) Vanaja Iyengar (1987) Khawlkungi (1987) Badri Narayan (1987) Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (1987) Sant Singh Sekhon (1987) N. Khelchandra Singh (1987) Madaram Brahma (1988) Nissim Ezekiel (1988) K. M. George (1988) Mario Miranda (1988) Vidya Niwas Mishra (1988) Ali Jawad Zaidi (1988) Kalim Aajiz (1989) Barsane Lal Chaturvedi (1989) Anita Desai (1989) Moti Lal Saqi (1989) Rongbong Terang (1989) V. Venkatachalam (1989)
1990s	M. Aram (1990) Vijay Kumar Chopra (1990) Behram Contractor (1990) Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1990) Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari (1990) Yashpal Jain (1990) Sharad Joshi (1990) Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra (1990) Gopi Chand Narang (1990) Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1990) Nilmani Phookan Jr (1990) Shyam Singh Shashi (1990) Ram Nath Shastri (1990) Bharat Bhushan (yogi) (1991) Kapil Deva Dvivedi (1991) B. K. S. Iyengar (1991) Satish Chandra Kakati (1991) Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1991) Madan Lal Madhu (1991) Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor (1991) Keshav Malik (1991) Surendra Mohanty (1991) P. T. Narasimhachar (1991) V. G. Bhide (1992) Gulabdas Broker (1992) Krishna Chaithanya (1992) Rajammal P. Devadas (1992) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1992) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1992) R. S. Lugani (1992) Shovana Narayan (1992) Nisith Ranjan Ray (1992) M. Kirti Singh (1992) B. K. Thapar (1992) Mark Tully (1992) B. N. Goswamy (1998) O. N. V. Kurup (1998) Lalsangzuali Sailo (1998) Gurdial Singh (1998) Narayan Gangaram Surve (1998) Ruskin Bond (1999) Shayama Chona (1999) G. P. Chopra (1999) Namdeo Dhasal (1999) Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1999) Satya Vrat Shastri (1999) Rajkumar Jhalajit Singh (1999)
2000s	Grigoriy Lvovitch Bondarevsky (2000) P. S. Chawngthu (2000) Piloo Nowshir Jungalwalla (2000) Mandan Mishra (2000) Rehman Rahi (2000) K. P. Saxena (2000) Nabaneeta Dev Sen (2000) Elangbam Nilakanta Singh (2000) Bala V. Balachandran (2001) Jeelani Bano (2001) Manoj Das (2001) Javare Gowda (2001) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2001) Gnanananda Kavi (2001) Kumar Ketkar (2001) Ravindra Kumar (2001) Kalidas Gupta Riza (2001) Padma Sachdev (2001) Bhabendra Nath Saikia (2001) Vachnesh Tripathi (2001) Munirathna Anandakrishnan (2002) Gopal Chhotray (2002) Gyan Chand Jain (2002) Madhu Mangesh Karnik (2002) Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar (2002) V. K. Madhavan Kutty (2002) Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (2002) Kim Yang-shik (2002) Manzoor Ahtesham (2003) Jagdish Chaturvedi (2003) Motilal Jotwani (2003) Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad (2003) Tekkatte Narayan Shanbhag (2003) Shailendra Nath Shrivastava (2003) Pritam Singh (2003) Vairamuthu (2003) Hamlet Bareh (2004) Kumarpal Desai (2004) Tatyana Elizarenkova (2004) Anil Kumar Gupta (2004) Gowri Ishwaran (2004) Leeladhar Jagudi (2004) Sunita Jain (2004) Prithvi Nath Kaula (2004) Ayyappa Paniker (2004) P. Parameswaran (2004) Bal Samant (2004) Kanhaiyalal Sethia (2004) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2004) Heinrich von Stietencron (2004) Sudhir Tailang (2004) Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2004) Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005) Shobhana Bhartia (2005) Manas Chaudhuri (2005) Darchhawna (2005) J. S. Grewal (2005) Amin Kamil (2005) Gadul Singh Lama (2005) Mammen Mathew (2005) S. B. Mujumdar (2005) Bilat Paswan Vihangam (2005) Ajeet Cour (2006) Sucheta Dalal (2006) Laltluangliana Khiangte (2006) Lothar Lutze (2006) Mrinal Pande (2006) Sugathakumari (2006) Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2006) Temsüla Ao (2007) Vijaydan Detha (2007) Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia (2007) Amitav Ghosh (2007) Meenakshi Gopinath (2007) Giriraj Kishore (2007) Shekhar Pathak (2007) Pratibha Ray (2007) Rostislav Rybakov (2007) Vikram Seth (2007) Vaali (2007) Sivanthi Adithan (2008) Bina Agarwal (2008) Vellayani Arjunan (2008) Nirupam Bajpai (2008) Surjya Kanta Hazarika (2008) Vinod Dua (2008) M. Leelavathy (2008) Amitabh Mattoo (2008) Bholabhai Patel (2008) Rajdeep Sardesai (2008) Sukhadeo Thorat (2008) Srinibash Udgata (2008) Suresh Gundu Amonkar Abhay Chhajlani Birendra Nath Datta Shashi Deshpande Bannanje Govindacharya Panchapakesa Jayaraman Mathoor Krishnamurty Jayanta Mahapatra Laxman Mane John Ralston Marr Alok Mehta A. Sankara Reddy Lalthangfala Sailo Ngawang Samten Ranbir Chander Sobti Ram Shankar Tripathi
2010s	Lalzuia Colney (2010) Maria Aurora Couto (2010) Romuald D'Souza (2010) Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar (2010) Surendra Dubey (2010) Sadiq-ur-Rahman Kidwai (2010) Hermann Kulke (2010) Ramaranjan Mukherji (2010) Govind Chandra Pande (2010) Mrs YGP (2010) Sheldon Pollock (2010) Arun Sarma (2010) Jitendra Udhampuri (2010) Granville Austin (2011) Mahim Bora (2011) Urvashi Butalia (2011) Pullella Sriramachandrudu (2011) Mamang Dai (2011) Pravin Darji (2011) Chandra Prakash Deval (2011) Deviprasad Dwivedi (2011) Balraj Komal (2011) Krishna Kumar (2011) Rajni Kumar (2011) Devanur Mahadeva (2011) Barun Mazumder (2011) Ritu Menon (2011) Avvai Natarajan (2011) Bhalchandra Nemade (2011) Karl Harrington Potter (2011) Koneru Ramakrishna Rao (2011) Devi Dutt Sharma (2011) Nilamber Dev Sharma (2011) Geeta Dharmarajan (2012) Eberhard Fischer (2012) Kedar Gurung (2012) Surjit Patar (2012) Sachchidanand Sahai (2012) Allan Sealy (2012) Pepita Seth (2012) Vijay Dutt Shridhar (2012) Ralte L. Thanmawia (2012) Anvita Abbi (2013) Nida Fazli (2013) Radhika Herzberger (2013) Noboru Karashima (2013) Salik Lucknawi (2013) J. Malsawma (2013) Devendra Patel (2013) Christopher Pinney (2013) Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam (2013) Rama Kant Shukla (2013) Jagdish Prasad Singh (2013) Akhtarul Wasey (2013) Naheed Abidi (2014) Ashok Chakradhar (2014) Keki N. Daruwalla (2014) G. N. Devy (2014) Kolakaluri Enoch (2014) Ved Kumari Ghai (2014) Manorama Jafa (2014) Rehana Khatoon (2014) P. Kilemsungla (2014) Sengaku Mayeda (2014) Waikhom Gojen Meitei (2014) Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (2014) Dinesh Singh (2014) Huang Baosheng (2015) Bettina Bäumer (2015) Lakshmi Nandan Bora (2015) Jean-Claude Carrière (2015) Gyan Chaturvedi (2015) Raj Chetty (2015) Bibek Debroy (2015) Ashok Gulati (2015) George L. Hart (2015) Sunil Jogi (2015) Usha Kiran Khan (2015) Narayana Purushothama Mallaya (2015) Lambert Mascarenhas (2015) Taarak Mehta (2015) Ram Bahadur Rai (2015) J. S. Rajput (2015) Bimal Kumar Roy (2015) Annette Schmiedchen (2015) Gunvant Shah (2015) Brahmdev Sharma (2015) Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah (2016) S. L. Bhyrappa (2016) Kameshwar Brahma (2016) Jawahar Lal Kaul (2016) Sal Khan (2016) Ashok Malik (2016) Haldhar Nag (2016) Pushpesh Pant (2016) Dahyabhai Shastri (2016) Prahlad Chandra Tasa (2016) Anant Agarwal (2017) Eli Ahmed (2017) Michel Danino (2017) Narendra Kohli (2017) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2017) Kashi Nath Pandita (2017) Vishnu Pandya (2017) V. G. Patel (2017) H.R. Shah (2017) Chamu Krishna Shastry (2017) Bhawana Somaaya (2017) Punam Suri (2017) Harihar Kripalu Tripathi (2017) G. Venkatasubbiah (2017) Prafulla Govinda Baruah (2018) Shyamlal Chaturvedi (2018) Arup Kumar Dutta (2018) Arvind Gupta (2018) Digamber Hansda (2018) Anwar Jalalpuri (2018) Piyong Temjen Jamir (2018) Joyasree Goswami Mahanta (2018) Zaverilal Mehta (2018) Tomio Mizokami (2018) Habibullo Rajabov (2018) Vagish Shastri (2018) Maharao Raghuveer Singh (2018) A Zakia (2018) Narsingh Dev Jamwal (2019) Nagindas Sanghavi (2019) Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri (2019) Devendra Swarup (2019)
2020s	Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (2020) Binapani Mohanty (2020) Damayanti Beshra (2020) H. M. Desai (2020) Lil Bahadur Chettri (2020) Meenakshi Jain (2020) N. Chandrasekharan Nair (2020) Narayan Joshi Karayal (2020) Prithwindra Mukherjee (2020) Robert Thurman (2020) S. P. Kothari (2020) Shahabuddin Rathod (2020) Sudharma (2020) Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam (2020) Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (2020) Yogesh Praveen (2020) Benichandra Jamatia (2020) Carlos G. Vallés (2021) Dadudan Gadhvi (2021) Imran Shah (2021) Mangal Singh Hazowary (2021) Mridula Sinha (2021) Namdeo Kamble (2021) Rangasami L. Kashyap (2021) Srikant Datar (2021) Solomon Pappaiah (2021) Asavadi Prakasarao (2021) Lalbiakthanga Pachuau (2021) Najma Akhtar (2022) T Senka Ao (2022) J K Bajaj (2022) Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2022) Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat (2022) Harmohinder Singh Bedi (2022) Maria Christopher Byrski (2022) Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) (2022) Dhaneswar Engti (2022) Narasimha Rao Garikapati (2022) Girdhari Ram Gonjhu (Posthumous) (2022) Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) (2022) Narasingha Prasad Guru (2022) Avadh Kishore Jadia (2022) Tara Jauhar (2022) Rutger Kortenhorst (2022) P Narayana Kurup (2022) V L Nghaka (2022) Chirapat Prapandavidya (2022) Vidyanand Sarek (2022) Kali Pada Saren (2022) Dilip Shahani (2022) Vishwamurti Shastri (2022) Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan (2022) Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) (2022) Vidya Vindu Singh (2022) Raghuvendra Tanwar (2022) Badaplin War (2022) Radha Charan Gupta (2023) C. I. Issac (2023) Rattan Singh Jaggi (2023) Anand Kumar (2023) Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande (2023) Antaryami Mishra (2023) Ramesh Patange (2023) B. Ramakrishna Reddy (2023) Mohan Singh (2023) Prakash Chandra Sood (2023) Janum Singh Soy (2023) Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (2023) Dhaniram Toto (2023)