Tulasi Diwasa is a prominent name in modern Nepali poetry. He has authored a dozen books on literature, folk culture and folklore of various tribes in Nepal. He served as professor of Nepali Literature at Tribhuwan University for several years. He has also served as Cultural Secretary at the Nepalese Embassy in the USA and taught as a visiting professor at various universities abroad. He is a life member of Nepal Academy and the President of the Nepali Folklore Society (NFS).
“Tulasi Diwasa is a prominent modernist Nepali poet who belongs to the group of those poets who introduced experiments, new idioms, and novelty in the mode of expression in the very discourse structure of poetry in Nepali in the sixties and seventies. The complexity of life on the one hand and the simplicity, profundity, and tenderness of experience on the other bring the poetry of Diwasa very close to the mind and heart of the reader.
His creativity permeates even in his intellectual concerns and anxieties of the age he is living in. The result is a highly creative recreation of the themes of life and the intensely lived moments of existence. Behind the apparent sense of gloom in his poetry, there is a discovery of light, beauty, and openness of the very act of poetic creation.
Diwasa is one of the truly internationally known poets of Nepal. His extensive travels and participation in the world poetry meets have opened a new vista of experience for him as a poet, humanist, and pacifist. His later poetry is the expression of this experience.”