Once upon a time in the country of Nepal, there was a city named Kathmandu. There lived a girl named Sophia. She was a hardworking and kind girl. She tried to help everyone. She was good at dancing, She was born in a poor family and her father passed away in an accident when she was just 5 years old.

Sophia tried to help her mother as much as she could. One day she decided to earn money by dancing in front of a crowd and giving it to her mother. So the next day she went to a place where a lot of people walked and danced in front of them and she started earning money little by little. She was very good at dancing. From dancing, she got enough money to feed herself and her mother for the next month. She was happy and rushed home. On the way home, her money was stolen by some people. After that, she was sad and went to the police station for help. No one helped her and teased her but an officer agreed to help her and Sophia and that officer investigated and found the thief. Sophia explained her problem and how she wanted to help her mother by earning money by performing. The officer was inspired by her and wanted to be just like her. He wanted to help everyone in need and become a kind and honest person. The officer punished the thief and returned Sophia the stolen money.

With the money in hand, she returned home with a smile on her face and gave the money to her mother. Her mother was impressed and proud of her daughter and then she worked even harder and became a popular dancer around Nepal.
 

बगेको खोलालाई राेक्न सकिएन 
भ्रष्टाचारलाई पनि अब छेक्न सकिएन
राेजगारी नपाएर विदेशिने युवा
उतै बसे आएनन् ती सम्झी सम्झी रुँदा

मिहिनेत गरे देशकाे विकाश हुन्छ
सुन चाँदी हिरा यही फल्छ
गरिबकाे जीवन गरिबीमै बित्छ
धनीकाे सुखसयलमै बित्छ 

राेएकी छन् नेपाल आमा 
राेएका छन् नेपाली जनता
देश विकाश गराैँ सबै मिली 
नजा‌औँ है कतै अन्त 

नेपाल आमा आँशु नबगाऊ है अब
बुझाैँ पीडा सबैले आँशु झार्न नदिऔँ अब
मिली बसाैँ स्वदेशमा गराैँ देशकाे सेवा
देश हामी सबैकाे हाे हाेइन कसैकाे पेवा
 

परम्परा भनेको व्यवहार गर्ने वा व्यापक रूपमा स्वीकार्य तरिका हो ।  विश्वभर विभिन्न परम्परा र रीतिथितिहरू छन्; केही राम्रा छन् भने केही नराम्रा छन् । वर्तमान  समयमा पनि केही नराम्रा प्रथाहरूले हाम्राे समाजमा समस्या निम्त्याइरहेका छन् । ती मध्ये एक दाइजो वा दहेज लेनदेन पनि हो।
विवाह समारोहमा दुलहीको परिवारबाट दुलाहा वा उसको परिवारलाई दिइने सम्पत्तिलाई दाइजो भनिन्छ । यो प्रथा परम्परादेखि चलिआएको प्रथा हो । अहिले दाइजाेलाई मानिसले  आफ्नो प्रतिष्ठा र प्रतिस्पर्धाको रूपमा हेर्छन् । दुलाहा पट्टिका मानिसहरू आफूले मागे जति दाइजाे नपाएसम्म विवाह स्वीकार गर्दैनन् । यो प्रथा वर्तमान समयमा धेरै जसाे तराई र अन्य ठाउँमा पनि प्रचलित छ । समाजमा रहेका गरिब परिवार जसले दाइजाे दिन सक्दैनन् । उनीहरूलाई तिरस्कार गरिन्छ । 
विवाहपछि पनि केटा पट्टिका मानिसहरूले केटी पट्टिका मानिसहरूलाई  दाइजाे माग्ने, आफूले मागे जति नपाए ज्यान मार्ने धम्की दिने,  हेला गर्ने, विभिन्न शारीरिक र मानसिक यातना दिन्छन् । दाइजाे प्रथा एउटा गम्भीर सामाजिक समस्या हो । दाइजाे प्रथा गरिब परिवारका मानिसका लागि अभिशाप हाे । यसै कारणले पनि कतिपय मानिसहरूले छोरी जन्मनासाथ दाइजाे सम्झेर मार्ने गरेका घटना नाैला छैनन् । 
दाइजाे प्रथाले हाम्राे समाजमा हिंसा बढ्दै गएकाे छ । मानिसमा चेतनाकाे कमी हुनु,  शिक्षा प्राप्त गर्न नसक्नु, सानै उमेरमा विवाह गरिदिनु, यसका समस्या हुन् । दाइजाे प्रथा समस्या मात्र नभएर याे एक किसिमकाे राेग हाे । यस्ताे राेगकाे  उपचार  समयमै नगरे यसले सबैलाई सखाप पार्छ । त्यसैले दाइजाे माग्ने वा लिनेलाई समाजबाटै बहिष्कार गरी कानुनअनुसार कारवाही गर्नुपर्छ ।
 

Once there was a man named James and he liked to play games and he was helpful to everyone as well. One day he was going to shop to buy bread, cakes etc and a man was asking him for food and that person was hungry for many days. James gives him food that he buys to eat at home. If he sees any needy people he uses to give money to them. He used to play many games but his favourite is football. His aim is to become a football player and he was quite good at playing football. He used to play tournaments and win money. He liked football very much and he played for many years and he went to join the national team but they didn’t take him but he did not give up. He improved playing and he again went next year and that time he took him for the national team. He was very happy to play for the national team. He improved his playing skills as well. He played for many years and he was retrained and he can not play football anymore in the national team. He used to teach children to play football. And he started small shops and he used to handle shops as well as teach children to play football in the evening. He earns a lot of money from that shop and He buy a big building with his friends. And they give that building in rent. They earn money from that building as well from the money people take flat at that building and they used to give money monthly.And there was a girl they both loved for many years and they decided to marry and they talked with their parents and they decided to marry each other. They start decorating their house for their marriage and they finally marry and have a happy life.
 

कोरोना भन्ने रोगै नराम्रो सबैलाई दु:ख दिने
लागेपछि निको हुनै गाराे  मृत्युको मुखमा पुराइदिने,
ठुलासाना रोगी निरोगी कसैलाई नछोड्ने
यस्तो भाइरस फैलिदा पनि मान्छे सचेत हुन नखाेज्ने।

पैसावाल, धनीमानीलाई अस्पतालमा बेड जत्ति  पाइने
तर के गर्नु गरिबको जिन्दगी त जिन्दगी नै नहुने,
साधारण उपचारले बाँच्ने मानिसलाई पनि
तपाइको मान्छे मर्‍यो भन्दै पाखा लगाइदिने ।

विश्वभर कोरोनाको महामारी फैलिँदा 
बिरामीले अक्सिजन र बेड नपाउँदा ,
रोग लागेर  कैयौँ मान्छे मरिसक्दा पनि
कैले आउने हाेला हामी जनताकाे मति ।

रोग लागेपछि  पछुताउनुभन्दा
कुराे बुझाैँ घरबाहिर ननिस्काैँ है जनता
बचाैँ राेगबाट बचाउँ है अरूलाई
मास्क स्यानिटाइजर सबैलाई
लगाउन गर्छु मैले अनुराेध ।
 

A girl named Sophie lived with her mother Riya, sister Kriti and dad Gopal. Sophie was 6 years old and her sister Kriti was 1 year old. Riya was a housewife and Gopal used to work in a construction company. 

Gopal used to spend his whole day in his job while used to do the household works and look after the children. Sophie was very good at studies. She used to perform very well in her academics. Their life was going normally when Gopal started drinking and got addicted to it. Riya did not like that Gopal used to come home drunk everyday. The only income source in the house was from Gopal's job but he started spending it on alcohol and it became very difficult for them to run the household and pay for Sophie's school fees. Riya tried to talk with Gopal about this. Gopal acted like he understood but he did not stop drinking. One day , Gopal came home very drunk and started shouting at his children. Riya told him to stop shouting. But, Gopal came to her and started beating her. Riya cried for help but no one was there to help her. Sophie was crying in her room beside her little sister. Gopal went to the room and slept. Riya slept in Sophie's room that day. Riya planned to live separately with her children. The next morning, Riya ran away with her children and some money to her mother's house before Gopal woke up. Her mother helped her out a lot. Gopal tried to contact her but Riya did not talk with him. Gopal still did not realize his mistakes and got addicted to drinking more and more. Riya started working in a hotel as a waitress. She worked very hard to educate her children. One day a film director came to the hotel and Riya served him food. The director was impressed by her voice and service. He asked her if she wanted to work in the film industry. Riya agreed and made her debut as a supporting role. Slowly, she started to get bigger roles as she was very good at acting. Her movies became famous and her fame grew very fast. She won many awards. Riya became rich and famous. Sophie and Kriti grew up and followed their mother's profession. They became a happy family .

Gopal started regretting his acts and started to control his addiction. He joined a rehabilitation center and worked on controlling his addiction.
 

पुस्तक परिचय: 
‘चम्पा’ उपन्यास महाकवि लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटाद्वारा लिखित एक मात्र उपन्यास हो। देवकोटाका नेपाली साहित्यमा महाकाव्य, खण्डकाव्य, कविता, निबन्ध तथा एक उपन्यासलगायत थुप्रै रचनाहरू प्रकाशित छन् । लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकाेटा ‘चम्पा’ उपन्यास उनका अरू कृतिभन्दा भिन्न र सामाजिक विषयमा आधारित भएर रचिएको कृति हो । सामाजिक नाम दिएर लेखिएको यो कृतिमा तत्कालीन समयकाे विकृति एउटी नारीमा हुने अत्याचार, आफ्ना घरका मानिसले गर्ने हेला र  नारीले चुपचाप सहनु पर्ने कुराहरू  चित्रण गरिएको छ । यो उपन्यास वि.सं. २००४ सालतिर रचना गरिएकाे  थियो भने त्यसकाे  २० वर्षपछि वि.सं.२०२४ सालमा प्रकाशित  प्रकाशित भएको जानकारी पाइन्छ । पुस्तकको शीर्षक  'चम्पा' यस उपन्यासको मुख्य पात्र चम्पाको नामबाट राखिएकाे छ । 
कथावस्तु:
चम्पा एउटी १२ वर्षकी चञ्चल  चलचित्र हेर्न मन पराउने, अभिनेत्री बन्ने सपना बाेकेकी केटी हुन्छे । चम्पाको बिहे त्यतिबेलाकाे  समाज र संस्कृतिअनुसार १२ वर्षकै उमेरमा  रामकान्तसँग हुन्छ  । जसकाे शरीर विकृत हुन्छ तर अध्ययन र साहित्यमा रुचि भएको हुन्छ । चम्पा र रामकान्तको उमेर अन्तर धेरै हुन्छ । रामकान्तकाे कमजाेर  शरीरका कारण उनीहरूबिच कुनै शारीरिकक सम्बन्ध  हुँदैन । विवाह भएकाे केही समयपछि  रामकान्त क्षयराेगकाे शिकार  हुन्छ र आफू बाँच्ने सम्भावना थोरै भएका कारणले उसले चम्पालाई आफूबाट टाढा रहन आग्रह गर्छ । आफू घर छाेडी अन्यत्रै जान्छ । तर ऊ जीवित  घर फर्किन्छ र चम्पालाई एउटी सानी केटीबाट नवयाैवना परिपक्व युवती बन्दै गएको देख्छ । उसले देख्छ कि उसकी श्रीमतीमा सौन्दर्यबाहेक अरू केही छैन। त्यसपछि वासनालाई आफ्नो नियन्त्रणमा राख्न सक्दैन । क्षयरोगका कारण शारीरिक सम्बन्ध पनि हुँदैन ।  त्यसैले  उसले आफ्नी पत्नीलाई एउटा चिठी लेखेर घर छोडेर जान्छ । एउटा श्रीमान्ले आफ्नी श्रीमतीलाई  छोडेर गएको समाजमा पनि राम्रो मानिएन । यस्तो कुराको बारेमा धेरै कुरा थाहा नभएकी चम्पालाई उसकी सासुले नानाथरीको चम्पालाई घाेचपेच गर्ने खालका कुरा सुनाइरहन्थिन् । जुन कुराले चम्पा धेरै चिन्तित हुन्थिन् । सकेसम्म प्रतिकार गर्थिन् । जेठानीहरूलेसमेत उनलाई घाेचपेच गर्थे । यसैकारणले उनलाई त्यस घरमा बस्ने मन मर्दै गएकाे थियाे । उपन्यासको अन्त्यमा  चम्पालाई नयाँ जीवन सुरु गर्ने चाहना हुन्छ । अन्यमा हिम्मत जु्टाएर घर छोडेर जान्छे । यसरी कथाको अन्त्य हुन्छ । 
पुस्तक सिफारिस: 
मलाई यो पुस्तक निकै मन पर्याे ।  म यो पुस्तक सबैलाई सिफारिस गर्न चाहन्छु। पुस्तकमा लेखक लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटाले केही तत्सम शब्दकाे प्रयोग गरेका छन् । जुन सामान्य पाठकहरूका लागि बुझ्न गारो लाग्न सक्छ । कतिपय समास भएका शब्दले उपन्यासलाई केही कठिन बनाए जस्ताे पनि लाग्छ । समग्रमा उपन्यासमा बाेधगम्य नै छ । यस उपन्यासमा तत्कालीन नेपाली समाजमा नारी घर परिवारबाट कसरी अपहेलित हुन्थे भन्ने कुरा देखाउन खाेजिएकाे छ । पुरूष प्रधान नेपाली समाजले नारीलाई कसरी उपेक्षित गर्थ्याे  भन्ने कुरा पनि देखाउन खाेजिएकाे छ । सामाजिक परिवेशका विकृति र त्यसमा नारीले भोग्नुपरेको विवशतालाई देखाउन सक्षम यो कृति एकपटक सबैलाई पढ्न अनुराेध गर्दछु । 
 

2000 years ago during the Greek empire. There was a man named Julius. He was a 25 year old young guy. He lived in the village near the border of the great Greek empire. The village was controlled by a small unit of hoplites army. The people of the village were disrespected and discriminated against by the army. The head of the army was holaunel. He was a very strict and disrespectful person. He was sort of king of the village. The villagers had to prepare enticing and delicious food for him everyday. No villagers were permitted to leave the village. They used to beat the villagers using a whip rope. It was like a living hell. Julius was one of the villagers. He worked everyday for them. If he refused to work then they would beat him till he was almost near death.
One day Julius had enough of it. He started to form an opposition group. He gathered 46 members. Among them 31 were young people and 15 were old. After that they started to collect weapons. For that they used to steal weapons from the army quietly. They gathered 21 swords and 25 spears. They planned to attack the army in the upcoming festival which was in 3 days. In that festival soldiers used to get drunk and they wanted to take advantage of it. They wanted to secretly kill the soldiers. After 3 days the festival started. The soldiers were drunk. Julius and the people started to kill the soldiers. They started to kill the soldiers from lower ranks. After the lower ranked soldiers were killed they started to attack all the soldiers. In the fight Julius was heavily injured. He died due to heavy bleeding. Even though he died the people successfully won the battle. 16 people were killed including Julius. Julius and 15 others' sacrifice did not go to waste. After that time Julius was known as a martyr of the village and a statue of him was made. The villagers were thankful to Julius and the others.
 

मलाई मेरो देश नेपालको धेरै माया लाग्छ । मेरो देश नेपाल एसिया महादेशमा रहेको सानो अनि विश्वकै एउटा अत्यन्त सुन्दर राष्ट्र हो । यहाँको हावापानी र प्राकृतिक वातावरण अत्यन्तै रमणीय छ । नेपालमा धेरै हिमाल, पहाड र नदीनालाहरू छन । संसारको सबैभन्दा अग्लो हिमाल सगरमाथा पनि यही छ । यहाँ वन, जङ्गल, लेक, बेँसी र रमणीय हरिया फाँटहरू पनि छन् ।
नेपालमा धेरै जाति, धर्म, भाषा तथा विभिन्न रहनसहन भएका मानिसहरू बस्दछन् । यहाँ धेरै किसिमका कला, संस्कृति, चाडपर्व, परम्परा तथा रीतिरिवाजहरू छन । विश्वमा विविधताकाे संस्कृति भएकाे देश नेपाल भनेर पनि चिनिएकाे छ । त्यसैले, मेरो देश नेपाललाई थरीथरीका फूलहरूको एउटा सुन्दर माला पनि भनिन्छ । मेरो देश नेपालको राष्ट्रिय भाषा नेपाली भाषा हो । यहाँ सयभन्दा बढी भाषाहरू छन् ।  विभिन्न जातिहरूका आआफ्नै मातृभाषा छन् । नेपालमा बस्ने मानिसहरू जुनसुकै जाति, धर्म वा  भाषाका भए पनि सबै नेपाली हुन् ।
मेरो देश नेपालमा विभिन्न किसिमका जनावर र चराचुरुङ्गीहरू छन् । यिनीहरूले हाम्राे  देशकाे  सुन्दरतालाई बढाउने काम गरेका छन् । यही सुन्दरताका कारण पर्यटकहरू हाम्राे देशमा भ्रमण गर्न आउँछन् । हामीले हाम्रा कला, भाषा , संस्कृतिकाे संरक्षण गर्नुपर्छ । हामीलाई नेपालालाई विश्वमा चिनाउनुपर्छ  ।
 

Once upon a time, there lived a man named Ramesh in a small village with his family. He had one son, one daughter, and a wife. He was a very hard-working man. He was a woodcutter and he used to work very hard for his family. His only dream was to make his family happy. He used to work very hard so that they could buy a house and live peacefully. He worked hard day and night. Then after some years he finally had money to buy a house. They were very excited that they were going to buy a house. That day they decided to go and have some fun. All the members of the family went outside to have some fun. But when they return they find out that all the money they have collected was stolen by someone. By seeing that all of them were very sad and upset. They didn't know what to do next. Then they started to ask the neighbors if they had seen anyone who had stolen money and run away. But none of them had seen anything like that. Slowly they started to lose hope and things started to get normal.He again started to follow his dream. But by then his son and daughter also had grown up so they also did what they could. They again started collecting money. They never gave up and finally after some years they collected enough money to buy a new house. After that they bought a new house and lived peacefully.We can learn from this story that we should never give up on our dreams and work harder than before if we fail to achieve our dream once. If Ramesh had given up then he would not have been able to buy a house and live peacefully. 
 

विद्यालय ज्ञान आर्जन गर्ने दोस्रो घर हो । विद्यालय पवित्र ज्ञानको मन्दिर पनि हो । जहाँ म मेरो धेरैजसो समय खर्च गर्दछु । काठमाडौँको सिफलमा अवस्थित मेरो विद्यालयको नाम सिफल सेकेण्डरी स्कुल हो ।  जहाँ सफा, शान्त र सुन्दर वातावरण छ । मेरो विद्यालय भौतिकरूपमा सुविधा सम्पन्न विद्यालय हो । जसले यथा सम्भव हरियालीलाई विशेष महत्त्व दिएकाे छ ।
मेराे विद्यालयले आधुनिक र प्राचीन दुवै शिक्षा प्रणालीलाई जोड दिएको छ । यहाँ प्राचीन विषय संस्कृतलगायत आधुनिक विषयहरू पनि पढाइ हुन्छ । यहाँ  विद्यार्थीहरूको रुचि र चाहनालाई विशेष ध्यान दिइन्छ । मेरो विद्यालयले प्रविधि र सञ्चारको धेरैभन्दा धेरै उपयोग गरेको छ । यहाँका प्रत्येक कक्षाकोठा प्रविधिमैत्री छन् । यहाँ बालमैत्री वातावरणमा  सिकाइलाई विशेष जोड  दिइन्छ । विद्यार्थीहरूलाई पनि प्रविधिको उपयोगमा जोड   दिइन्छ  ।   
मेराे विद्यालयले सिर्जनात्मक कार्यलाई विशेष महत्त्व दिन्छ । यहाँका प्रत्येक विद्यार्थीले कथा, कविता , निबन्ध तथा विभिन्न लेखहरू लेख्छन् । जुन विद्यालयको पेज तथा सामाजिक सञ्जालमा प्रकाशित हुन्छ । यसले विद्यार्थीको व्यक्तित्व विकासमा महत्त्वपूर्ण भूमिका खेलेको छ । म यस्तो विद्यालय अध्ययन गर्न पाएकामा निकै खुसी छु । 
 

After the completion of the exams, students were bored during their summer vacations. Likewise, Alex, Trevor, George, and Jordan, were students of Oxford Academy and had been friends since middle school. Alex called all of his friends to his house, initiating to do something adventurous and make their summer vacation memorable. Trevor, Ria, and Jordan reached Alex’s home, and they decided to go on their trip and started thinking about where they should go. After rejecting all the suggestions like trekking, rock climbing, picnic, etc, they finally ended up with a decision to go camping in the forest. They all spoke to their parents about their trip and all of their parents agreed as this was normal since they became friends. They used to hang out together before and have sleepovers too, so none of the parents had a problem with their planned trip, instead, the parents arranged a tourist guide for them, to make sure they stay safe. After a few days, the trip had started and they had gotten inside the jeep of the tourist guide, with their bags. 

After a lot of talking, singing songs, dancing in the jeep, they finally reached the forest. The tourist guide seemed like a nice guy as he had made everyone comfortable with him, and his name was Austin. He started to show different things and talked about the place as they walked around the forest, reaching a certain point where he suddenly stopped and warned the four of them not to go into that area as it was a dangerous area of the forest. But being the mischievous and disobedient youths, of course not caring about the warning, they all decided to go to that part of the forest in the night when the tourist guide will be asleep and come back before the guide is awake. Finally, after setting up the tent, and having food, Austin first made sure that all of them were asleep and he himself went to sleep. After realizing that Austin was asleep, they all quietly made outside of the tent and started walking towards the area.  

Among the four of the lads, George was a bit cowardly, so the three of them decided to tease him. As they entered the danger area, the rustling noise of the dry leaves, on which they were walking, was the only sound they could hear. Gradually, as they walk together eyeing each other, Trevor, the mischievous boy among them, decided to tease them by making noises and soon, Alex and Jordan joined him, startling George. They made animal sounds or pretended that they saw a ghost. Jordan suggested Alex and Trevor go back to the camp, leaving George alone in the forest. They asked George to take the lead and all three of them ran towards the tent. As George moved forward, he could hear a growling sound of an animal. As the sound got closer, he panicked and looked around to find no one. His friends had left him alone, and frightened he started running towards the camp panting. Spooky noises were getting louder and louder as he ran as fast as he could. While he was running, his foot stuck with something, and gulping as he stared down, he saw a hand covered with blood. There was only a hand, and the rest of the human body was missing. As he stared frighteningly at the sight, he suddenly heard a loud growl. As he turned towards the sound he was met with a hungry lion jumping towards him. He got terrified and froze at the sight. The lion attacked him, making him bash at the ground with the lion on top of him. 

It was already morning and George was not back at the camp yet. All of them were worried about him as the boys had left him alone. The guilt, regret, and realization hit them as they told everything to Austin. They couldn’t keep waiting, so everyone went towards the dangerous area with Austin together in search of George. As they walked further, they had to see a horrifying sight that no one had wished for. Everyone burst into tears as they saw a lifeless George, with a ripped body, blood oozing out. The guilt of leaving George alone was killing all of them. Had they not left him alone, and went together to the camp, George would’ve been alive. They blamed themselves for everything that happened and couldn’t grieve their friend’s death. Nobody had thought that a summer vacation camp night would have changed so many things in their lives, and instead of being adventurous, that trip instead became a painful memory for all of them, including Austin, who also blamed himself for being careless.