Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Laxmi Prasad Devkota was born in 1909 in Dhobidhara, in Kathmandu, on the day of Laxmi Puja. He studied in India and for a long time lived by giving lessons and teaching. At the end of the 1930s, after nervous breakdowns, he spent several months in an asylum in Ranchi. Minister of Education in 1957, under the government of Kunwar Inderjit Singh, he remained in post for less than a year. Honoured with the title of Mahakavi, great poet, he died of cancer in 1959, at the age of forty-nine, at Aryaghat, on the banks of the Bagmati.

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• PoetryMuna MadanमुनामदनLaxmi Prasad Devkota · 1936Literature