
Makai Ko Arkai Kheti
The play reinterprets Krishna Lal Adhikari’s late-nineteenth-century text titled Makaiko Kheti in the context of contemporary post-earthquake Nepal. While it is not clear whether Adhikari’s controversial book MakaikoKheti (Cultivation of Maize) was intended as a simple agricultural manual, or as a political satire (Ranas thought that red and white pests described by Adhikari in



