Litterateur Bijay Kharel passes away in USA

JHAPA, July 3: Litterateur Bijay Kharel has passed away today in Texas, USA.

Kharel is one of the followers of the literary movement known in the country's literary history as the Jharrobadi Andolan, which aimed to shun the unnecessary encroachment of other languages into Nepali.

The 77-year-old litterateur originally hails from Mechi Municipality Ward-6 of Jhapa district. He had flown to the USA around a month ago for a family visit. 

A litterateur with over a dozen of literary creations to his credit, Kharel had a running fever and was suffering from a urinal infection. He was undergoing treatment at a local hospital in Texas for a week.

He died in the course of treatment, his family members confirmed. He had visited the USA with his spouse Parbati Kharel where their son and daughter-in-law were settled.

Meanwhile, Suseli Literary Family Jhapa's Chairperson Punya Prasad Kharel said that the Nepali literature field lost a senior litterateur of the 'rustic genre'. "Late Kharel created literature in every genre," he grieved, adding that late Kharel had recently published a dictionary containing rustic (countryside) words and dialects.

Late Kharel has published over a dozen of creations from his first book 'Bijayka Nibandha' (Essays of Bijay) in 2064 BS to the latest one 'Yugarambha' (Beginning of an Era) in 2079 BS.