Nepal, April 11 -- The full title of this paper should be-'Erosion of the poetic element in the Nepali political imaginaire'. The reasons are the following. Recently, one student of Nepali arts reminded me of a paper that I had presented at a seminar on 'Art and politics: art for federalism' organised by the UNDP and Kathmandu University at Nagargot from May 11-13, 2013. In retrospect, I should mention that a prominent painter and teacher named Sujan Chitrakar of the Faculty of Arts at KU was behind this effort of making his students and colleagues sensitive to the question of art playing a role in politics.

The student wants to work in the area evoked by the title of my paper, 'Art and political imaginaire in the context of federal life...