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Obituary | Krishna Prakash Shrestha: The doyen of Russian-Nepali literature
Having won the trust of officials in both the countries, he was seen by many as an unofficial Nepali diplomat in Russia
Birth: November 7, 1937, Thankot
Death: March 29, 2021, Moscow
Krishna Prakash Shrestha wanted to study journalism in the US, the most technologically advanced country in the world.
But when the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, the Sputnik 1, Shrestha’s interest in communist Russia grew to a point that he no longer wanted to go to the US.
In 1959, Shrestha received a scholarship from Moscow State University for an MA in Journalism. On the completion of his studies, he planned on returning Nepal to serve at Gorkhapatra, Nepal’s longest surviving state-run newspaper. But that was not to be. ....

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