21 Facts About Bairagi Kainla

Til Bikram Nembang Limbu, professionally known as Bairagi Kainla or Bairagi Kaila, is a Nepalese poet and litterateur.

Bairagi Kainla has served as Chancellor of the Nepal Academy from 2009 to 2013.

Bairagi Kainla is currently working in the field of Folklore of Limbu ethnic people of Eastern Nepal.

Bairagi Kainla is working to promote the culture, language and literature of the minor communities, nationalities and indigenous people of Nepal.

Bairagi Kainla was nominated as a member of the Royal Nepal Academy in 1990.

Bairagi Kainla was born in 1939 and learnt his first letters at home.

Bairagi Kainla lived in a joint family and his father had six wives.

Bairagi Kainla was liberal enough to send him to study Science in Darjeeling.

In Darjeeling, Bairagi Kainla met Indra Bahadur Rai and Ishwar Ballav in college whose encouragement became pivotal in shaping his poet-personality.

Bairagi Kainla remembers that the sad part of big family was that the women in the family had to wake up around four o'clock in the morning and start their daily chores.

Bairagi Kainla recalls that his father was among the first of Limbu to emphasize education and he had sent his children far away from home for further studies.

Bairagi Kainla's father had published the first Limbu lyrical poetry Kirat Mikhan Samlo which was later transliterated to Devanagari by Kainla in 2038 BS.

Bairagi Kainla met me along the way at Raksyhey, but I refused to return home with him.

Bairagi Kainla studied Science and completed Intermediate of Science from Darjeeling Government College affiliated to Calcutta University.

Bairagi Kainla's poetical works began since the early 1960s while he was a young student in Darjeeling.

Bairagi Kainla met Indra Bahadur Rai and Ishwor Ballav in college in Darjeeling, whose encouragement became pivotal in shaping his poet-personality.

Bairagi Kainla formed a trio with Indra Bahadur Rai and Ishwor Ballav who came like a thunder with new literary trend and a powerful movement called Tesro Aayam.

Bairagi Kainla did not write much, whatever he wrote he did most powerfully.

Bairagi Kainla uses local myths and lore in his poetry leading to a diversion in traditional writing.

Bairagi Kainla is a great freedom-fighter and participated actively in different movements.

Bairagi Kainla served as a Chancellor of Nepal Academy from 2066 BS to 2070 BS.