Nepal, May 26 -- Nepal's history of rural-to-urban as well as international migration has been reflected in its music and poetry ever since Nepalis began to migrate, in dohori duets to folk music, the ballads of the Gandarva and songs of longing for home and family.

Nepalis have written poetry about the pain of separation from loved ones, the struggle to assimilate in a new world, about Lahure soldiers fighting and dying in faraway lands, and workers toiling in of British India.

Perhaps all Nepalis have the heart of poets. Or perhaps the desire to turn translate homesickness into art is universal.

In South Korea, Sunil Dipta, Dilip Bantawa, and Jiwan Khatri carry the tradition of Nepali migrants turning their lived realities to verse....