{"id":52803,"date":"2026-08-11T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52803"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:02:45","slug":"noted-litterateur-dr-bimal-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/noted-litterateur-dr-bimal-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted litterateur Dr Bimal passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janakpurdham, Aug 11: A noted litterateur and linguist Dr Rajendra Prasad Bimal passed away last night. He was the educationist and renowned figure of Maithili language.<\/p>\n

Dr Bimal, who had been suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure for long, breathed his last at Province Hospital, Janakpur at 12:45am Tuesday, according to family sources.<\/p>\n

The literary circle has termed the demise of Dr Bimal as an irreparable loss to Maithili language, literature and culture.<\/p>\n

The departed one has been kept at his residence in Devi Chowk of Janakpurdham-4 so that friends and well wishers could pay tribute to him. Literati, educationists, students and well wishers have thronged his residence.<\/p>\n

Dr Bimal was 79-year-old. He was born at Khirkiya village of Devdiha in Dhanusha district. He served as the founding chairman of the Maithili Development Trust, Janakpurdham. He devoted to protection and promotion of Maithili language, literature and culture throughout his life.<\/p>\n

The litterateur had done Masters in Nepali, Maithili and Hindi languages. He also earned PhD in linguistics. A retired Professor of Nepali language at Ramswarup Ramsagar Multiple Campus, Dr Bimal’s literary career featured fiction, poetry, music, gazal, drama, critique, child literature, translation and linguistics. His first story ‘Bipatiya’ was published in the Mithila Mihir magazine on March 15, 1963.<\/p>\n

Some of this acclaimed works include- ‘Ie Hamare Katha Thik’, ‘Itihasak Ghao’, ‘Dr Bimalka Kathaharu’, ‘Sarbariya Gaunko Katha’ and ‘Fisti Maharani’. His literary creations got coverage in Gorkhapatra, Madhupark, Garima and other noted publication.<\/p>\n

A Maithili telefilm based on his story ‘Hansa Chalal Pardesh’ was broadcast on Nepal Television. It contributed to reach his creation to wider audience and readers, according to Nitya Nand Mandal, litterateur in Janakpurdham.<\/p>\n

The late Bimal had received numerous awards and honours from the government and non-government sectors as well. He was the first person to be conferred on the ‘Nepal Vidyapati Language and Literature Award’. Garima Samman, Jagadamma Samman, Rastriya Prativa Puraskar and others were also provided to him in recognition to his literary contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janakpurdham, Aug 11: A noted litterateur and linguist Dr Rajendra Prasad Bimal passed away last night. He was the educationist and renowned figure of Maithili language. Dr Bimal, who had been suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure for long, breathed his last at Province Hospital, Janakpur at 12:45am Tuesday, according to family sources. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52805,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52803\/revisions\/52805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}