The White Dot and Other Stories is a collection of tales by Nepal's Sushant Thapa. Each story is a microcosm of the human condition in a fragmented world where people incline to seek meaning as each moment defies assumptions and material reality. Do we seek resolution in artistic creation, reflection, nostalgia, risky actions, or critical analysis of ongoing global affairs? Thapa's imagination contextualizes the richness of the difficult human experience as our relation to the world is abstracted and distant, yet our emotional sympathies cannot be torn from each other or the solitude we crave for peace. Foreword by Prof. Nandini Sahu.
"This attentiveness to the everyday, infused with philosophical density, situates the collection in a broader South Asian literary tradition that values introspection as a mode of resistance and survival.
The White Dot and Other Stories is both intimate and expansive, anchored in Nepal's lived realities yet reaching toward universal human concerns. Sushant Thapa writes with restraint and depth, crafting stories that linger long after they are read. They do not intend to provide answers, rather they sharpen our unanswered questions."
- Prof. Nandini Sahu, from her Foreword Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal, with ten books of poems to his credit. The books are:
The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020),
Abstraction and Other Poems (impspired, UK, 2021),
Minutes of Merit (Haoajan Publishers, Kolkata, 2021),
Love's Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, New York, Dakar, Senegal, 2023),
Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023),
Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024),
Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2024),
My Grandfather Had Been a Cowboy (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2025),
The Walking Rebel Micropoems and Poems (Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas, USA, 2025) and
When I Desire and Other Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, Philippines, India, USA, 2026). Thapa holds an M.A. in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India. Curriculum Development Center has approved a poem by Sushant Thapa titled "Festivities" to be taught in Grade 6 in Nepal. It is included in the book Paragon English. Sushant has also published his collection of flash fiction and short stories titled
The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal from Ukiyoto Publishing in 2024. He teaches English language and literature to university level students in Biratnagar, Nepal. He has also translated a book of poems from Nepali to English by Kamal Dhungana titled "
Dark Shadows." Sushant also frequently shares his writing on his Substack at https: //substack.com/@sushantthapa. Currently, he is working on his debut novel.
