Kathmandu, March 14: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed grief over the demise of literary writer Lil Bahadur Kshetri and extended homage to his departed soul. The Prime Minister took to the social networking site, Facebook, to pay respect to the departed soul and express deep condolences to the bereaved family members, relatives and literary fraternity. Lil Bahadur Kshetri’s novel, Basain, touched the hearts of every college students once upon a time. His ‘Basain’ and other novels describe the pang of migration of entire villages from Nepal to Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya and Bhutan during World War II. “His novel ‘Bahmaputra Ko Kinara’, which won India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, also tells the story of the struggle of Nepalis in northeast India”, the Prime Minister wrote while posting an image of writer Kshetry and the cover page of his literary piece ‘Basain’. Kshetry passed away last night at the age of 93 in Assam’s capital Guwahati. —