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He, along with his contemporaries Bairagi Kaila and Indra Bahadur Rai, formed a trio in 1963 in Darjeeling to rethink and evaluate the development of Nepalese literature.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"11 July 1937","date":"1937-07-11"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"22 March 2008","date":"2008-03-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"poet","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49757"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P106"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Madan Puraskar","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6726423","date":"1972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishwar_Ballav","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AD","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ishwar Ballav born?","a":"Ishwar Ballav was born on 11 July 1937 in Kathmandu."}],"related":[{"name":"The Buddha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/the-buddha"},{"name":"Dona Sarkar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dona-sarkar"},{"name":"Balkrishna Sama","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/balkrishna-sama"},{"name":"Radha Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/radha-paudel"},{"name":"Yogmaya Neupane","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yogmaya-neupane"},{"name":"Bhupi Sherchan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhupi-sherchan"},{"name":"Taranath Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/taranath-sharma"},{"name":"Ambalika Devi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi"},{"name":"Chittadhar Hridaya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chittadhar-hridaya"},{"name":"Lekhnath Paudyal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal"},{"name":"Siddhicharan Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/siddhicharan-shrestha"},{"name":"Krishna Lal Adhikari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-lal-adhikari"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ishwar-ballav-b398bf6c73.jpg","width":214,"height":220,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Iunc2","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ishwar_Ballav.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ishwar Ballav","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishwar_Ballav","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): ईश्वरबल्लभ","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AD","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q16204556","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204556","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ishwar Ballav.jpg by Iunc2 (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ishwar_Ballav.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ishwar Ballav, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ishwar Ballav.jpg — Iunc2, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Ishwar Ballav\". DigiNepal. Last updated 18 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ishwar-ballav. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-18T02:58:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ishwar-ballav","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ishwar-ballav","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ishwar-ballav?lang=ne"}}