Phatte Bahadur Singh

Biography:

Phatte Bahadur Singh was a Nepalese poet and journalist who started the first daily newspaper in Nepal Bhasa. He suffered persecution and was jailed for his activities to develop his mother tongue. Singh was born in Kathmandu to father Kuldip and mother Dev Lani Singh. He was the grandson of poet Siddhidas Mahaju. Singh published his first poem entitled Bānmalāhgu Chāl in Buddha Dharma wa Nepal Bhasa in 1930.