How'd You Create That?
by Alfa M. Shakya
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A painting about love and gender roles ft. Rashana Bajracharya
A painting about love and gender roles ft. Rashana Bajracharya
About this podcast
How'd You Create That? is a podcast about the creative process of making a work of art. If you've ever wondered how did someone create that, you're in the right place. Diving into the creative process of writers, artists, and creatives from Nepal.
This podcast is supported by The Open Institute for Social Science (https://theopen.institute).
Episodes
The newest 20 of 28 episodes
- A painting about love and gender roles ft. Rashana Bajracharya · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 6Rashana Bajracharya’s Lakshmi Narayan was first on display at Deities of Nepal II in 2024 at Nepal Art Council. The painting reimagines the divine couple Lakshmi and Narayan…
- Patan in pen and ink ft. Priyanka Singh Maharjan · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 4Place has a special significance in Priyanka Singh Maharjan’s work. Her architectural drawings are alive and brimming with life. She joins this episode to share the process and…
- Making of the anthology "Like A Rising River" · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 3In our biggest ever group recording, we have the writers and illustrators of the story anthology Like A Rising River joining us to discuss how the anthology was made. We explore…
- How an intuition turned me into a writer ft. Sneha Pradhan · 47 min · Season 4 Episode 2Sneha Pradhan is a children's author and a visual storyteller. Her debut book, co-created with Promina Shrestha, "Yelp! Yeti! Chaos in Kathmandu" (Flying Eye Books) came out in…
- Writing, self-publishing, and feminism ft. Nirvana Bhandary · 46 min · Season 4 Episode 1Nirvana Bhandary is a writer and filmmaker and in 2025 she self-published her first collection of essays titled "Unsanskari: A Feminist Life." This conversation is about how this…
- On creating, making, and becoming | S4 · 3 min · Season 4It's been two years since How'd You Create That started and we're backed with the 4th season. We continue the conversation on the enigma of creating art. How'd You Create That…
- Identity, art, and exploration ft. Mrigaja Bajracharya & Subidha Lama 'BLU' · 48 minIn Nov 2024, How'd You Create That? was featured as a panel at the WOW Women of the World Festival, Nepal. We had two visual artsits Mrigaja Bajracharya and Subidha Lama 'BLU'…
- When fiction writing and journalism meet ft. Pranaya Rana · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 6We’re here at the season finale of the third season. And for this episode we have a journalist and writer, Pranaya Rana. Pranaya has a wide range of journalism experience and is…
- Newa Childhood Stories on Pages ft. Rownika Shrestha · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 5Childhood stories are special, and this episode is all about them. Poet and multilingual writer Rownika Shrestha joins to talk about a special story - about the Kartik Nach of…
- Fables, refabulations, and the human experience ft. Prawin Adhikari · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 4Prawin Adhikari is one prolific writer, always writing, always working on the next project. He joins the podcast to talk about his latest book Budhani (SAFU). Budhani is based on…
- Writing from Memory ft. Niranjan Kunwar · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 3What does writing from memory mean? How do we do that? These are some central questions we explore in this episode with Niranjan Kunwar. Niranjan's memoir Between Queens and the…
- Bringing my grandmother's village to fiction ft. Weena Pun · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 2If you've been struggling with your writings, here's an episode to help you get back on track. Weena Pun spent a long time writing Kanchhi (Hachette), her debut novel that came…
- On Writing 'Human Nature' ft. Thomas Bell · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 1In the first episode of the third season, we have journalist and writer Tom Bell joining us! We met him during the launch of his second book Human Nature (Penguin) in November…
- Why talk about the creative process in the age of AI? | Season 3 · 4 min · Season 3How'd You Create That? is back with the third season. It's the time of AI as we head to summer in 2025. But why talk about the creative process when we can generate many things…
- On Writing 'Everything the Light Touches' ft. Janice Pariat · 1 h 26 min · Season 2 Episode 6Janice Pariat visited Nepal during the Nepal Literature Festival 2024 and that was when this episode started to take shape. Janice is a storyteller, a traveler, and a forest…
- Behind the Contest-Winning Stories ft. Sharad Duwal, Dia Yonzon, Lalahang · 1 h 40 min · Season 2 Episode 5What makes a story unforgettable? In this episode, we sit down with the creative minds behind the 2023 Writing Nepal story writing contest winners. Sharad, Lalahang, and Dia…
- Photographs are like sentences ft. Prasiit Sthapit · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 4In our first ever episode featuring a photographer, we have visual storyteller Prasiit Sthapit in conversation about his photo series 'Red is the Colour of Spring.' Based in…
- The Story behind the Song ft. Simma Rai · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 3The first musician on the podcast! Singer-Songwriter Simma Rai joins in to talk all about music - her journey, her inspiration, and how she writes, composes, and sings. We talk…
- The Art of Short Story Writing ft. Ranjan Adiga · 1 h 13 minRanjan Adiga joins in to talk about his debut short story collection 'Leech & Other Stories' and the process behind his book. We talk about how to create memorable characters…
- On Chinese Language, Translation, and Writing ft. Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 1Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari, Co-Founder of The Araniko Project (https://thearanikoproject.substack.com) joins the podcast to talk about her experience of learning what is…
