Rabi Thapa is a writer and editor based in Kathmandu, where he runs the literary magazine La.Lit (lalitmag.com). He is the author of the short story collection Nothing to Declare (Penguin India 2011) and a biography of Kathmandu's tourist quarter, Thamel, Dark Star of Kathmandu (Speaking Tiger 2016). He is now working on a book on the environment.