Basanta Basnet
Nepali journalist and writer
Basanta Basnet (Nepali: बसन्त बस्नेत) is a Nepalese journalist and writer. He is an editor at Onlinekhabar, an online news portal. He started working at Online Khabar since 17 July 2022, after resigning from Shilapatra. Earlier, He worked at Kantipur (daily) as a political correspondent. He was also an editor at Nepal Magazine, which used to be published by Kantipur Publications.
Journalism
He was the former editor at Nepal Magazine and Shilapatra, an online news portal. He was the editor-in-chief of Shilapatra from August 31, 2020, to July 2022. He has also worked for various national dailies such as Kantipur, Annapurna Today, Annapurna Post and Nagarik.
Books
He has published three books. His first book 72 ko Bismay was published on 8 September 2018.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110693405. VIAF identifies the subject as 33155767330227761175. The Library of Congress control number is n2019241514. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2020 and 2018.
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