Kartikeya
Ghimire has been actively involved in writing and promoting children’s
literature in Nepal for the last two decades. He has also been managing and
operating www.ketaketionline.com, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWF0F7xkzN8cB7p_YvkyPA/featured the first online magazine for children dedicated to the promotion of Nepalese
children’s literature internationally. He also chairs the Children’s Literature
Foundation Nepal (CLFN), Ketaketi Media and the Children’s Journalist Group
Nepal.
An
independent journalist by profession, Ghimire picks up themes from the
day-to-day experiences of Nepalese children – their joys and sorrows, their
dreams and frustrations – in his stories.
Born to
Chandranath Ghimire and Durgadevi Ghimire in a poor agricultural family in
Sarlahi, Ghimire has seen the face of poverty and hardship from a very close
distance. Amidst scarcity, he struggled through his studies and earned himself
a master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. He was barely nine when
he turned his hand to literary writing. Now a prolific author , he has been
continuously reaching out to Nepalese children, sometimes as an author, and
occasionally as an editor or a storyteller. His utter commitment to the
promotion of Nepalese children’s literature in spite of a number of personal
huddles, is highly praiseworthy.
Ghimire’s
stories appeal directly to the emotions of the young readers and permeate
through their minds. The lives and experiences of his characters are lives and
experiences that everyone can relate to. His plots evolve out of the waves of
feelings that touch every one of us, though we seldom care to reflect on them,
or to record them. Hence his literature is an archive, where we find the
experiences of our lovely, youthful past safely treasured. This makes him an
author of universal hue.
