Ankit Babu Adhikari () is an author, musician, singer and lyricist from

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. He is the co-author of '' Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest'', a narrative non-fiction and oral history of

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Music

Ankit started his musical career by composing and performing songs for a post-modern play ''Coma; A Political Sex'' staged at Shilpee Theatre, Kathmandu in 2014. His another major milestone includes his solo concert organised in tribute to

Narayan Gopal Narayan Gopal Gurubacharya () (4 October 1939 – 5 December 1990), known professionally as Narayan Gopal and N. Gopal was a popular singer and composer of Nepali music. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons in Nepal, he is refe ...

. In 2014-15 he made it to

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after which he gained wider audience throughout Nepal and abroad. His first original release is ''Ram Naam'', a song that questions the physical existence of God; that was critically acclaimed in Nepal. He continued his experiment in a 2016 release ''Nau Futey Bhoot'' (9 ft. ghost), a song about Indian Blockade in Nepal, for which the Japan-based magazine

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named him ''Nepal's Singing Storyteller''.

Dr Govinda K.C Anthem

Ankit has released an anthem for Dr Govinda K.C. while he was in his 11th hunger-strike against Nepal's medical mafia. The song contributed to mass campaigns to his support on social media. The song ''Ma Govinda Banchu'' (''I will be Govinda'') explains what it means to be like Dr. Govinda K.C.

Journalist

He was a journalist with

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and

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before switching into music. At the age of 19, he started his career as a correspondent covering crime, security, history and human rights. Before coming into music full-time, he was a copy-editor. He is also a co-producer of the critically acclaimed documentary ''Looking The Un-eyed Way''. Produced with Pradeep Bashyal and Kumar Paudel, the documentary featured Deurupa Pandey, a 75-year-old blind woman from a village in the hills of Syangja district, who lived alone creating wonders about herself.

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* 1991 births Living people {{Nepal-singer-stub

Music

Dr Govinda K.C Anthem

Journalist

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