Moharaj Sharma: poet, journalist and documentary makerCEFR A2
15 Dec 2025
Adapted from Sangita Swechcha, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
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Moharaj Sharma is a poet, journalist and documentary maker with two decades of experience. He is News Editor at AP1 Television and he hosts a weekly literary segment. He is also a long-time member of the International Nepali Literary Society.
Sharma researches the roots of Nepali and Sanskrit and made a documentary about Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees. In the 1990s a policy led to the expulsion of many Nepali speakers who lived in camps in eastern Nepal before resettling in several countries, including the USA, Australia and Canada.
He says poetry, journalism and documentary work together. His new poetry collection will focus on ordinary people, diaspora identity and social change.
Difficult words
- poet — a person who writes poems about feelings
- journalist — a person who writes news and reports
- documentary — a film or program that shows real events
- expulsion — forced removal of people from a country or area
- refugee — a person forced to leave their countryrefugees
- diaspora — people living outside their country of origin
- resettle — move and start a new life in another countryresettling
- policy — a rule or plan made by a government
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Discussion questions
- Do you like poems about ordinary people? Why or why not?
- Have you seen a documentary about refugees? What did you learn?
- Do you know anyone who lives in another country? How do they keep their culture?
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