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Jeevan Kada Ki Phool by Jhamak Kumari Ghimire
Jeevan Kada ki Phool describes the life of Jhamak Kumari Ghimire and her struggle since her childhood. It starts with her early memories of childhood. The care and support she received from her grandmother contrary to the bitter way the society treated her. The feelings of an innocent child growing up amidst the hatred of the society, her feelings and emotions she could never utter a word of. Her anger towards the discrimination she faced from the society for being born physically disabled. Her silent reactions to all those bitter things the society said to her and her struggle for existence and acknowledgement after the death of her grandmother is expressed beautifully in the book. The words and sentences used are quite similar to the day-to-day language used in the villages of Nepal.
Jhamak Ghimire is considered Nepali equivalent of Hellen Keller as both of them suffered from the same disease cerebral palsy. But Ghimire, unlike Keller, belonged to a poor family in a poor country where the parents wished their physically disabled children were rather dead than suffering. She did not receive encouragement or support from her family for learning to read and write. However, she proved herself as one of the most aspiring and promising Nepali authors. Although her life had always been full of struggle and hardship, it never deterred her from her desire to learn. Her determination and strong will-power resulted in giving birth to an aspiring author and one of the most inspirational books of all times.
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Jhamak Kumari Ghimire
Jhamak Kumari Ghimire, born in July 1980 in Kachide village development of Dhankuta district is a Nepalese writer. She was born with severe disability that has prevented her from using her arms, and suffers from limited movement of her body and slurred speech called cerebral palsy and writes with her left foot. can hear but not speak and has limited eye sight. Ghimire also wears glasses because she has myopia, or nearsightedness. Her disability, however, hasn’t prevented her from expressing her acerbic, poetic humour freely ? through her left foot.Using her toes to write, she trod into the Nepali literature with the start of new millennium at the age of 19.Being deprived of an education didn’t stop her from learning how to read and write all by herself, and she has progressed so far along this path that she is today an award-winning author of 10 published books comprising both prose and poetry, mediums she traverses with equal,
heartfelt facility. In this chapter from Jiban Kanda Ki Phool, Jhamak describes the joy she felt when she first wrote the letter ‘ka’ in the dirt with a stick.In her autobiography, Ghimire documents instances such as her parents ignoring her desire to study or how she tried to memorize
the alphabets her younger sister was studying and practiced them by scribbling in the garden.
She learned to read and write using her feet and eventually launched an award-winning literary career. Ghimire promotes a message of self-sufficiency and empowerment for women.
She has penned many anthologies of poems, stories and essays besides regularly contributing to newspapers as a columnist as She is columnist at the Kantipur newspaper.“Through her column, her potential has been acknowledged – nationally and internationally – not just because she can write with her feet, but because her writing is effective and efficient compared to the contemporary analytical litterateurs,” says Govinda Raj Bhattarai, a professor and writer who helped launch her book of autobiographical essays.
Her several feet-written interviews have been published by various media, one which helped launch her literary career.
In addition to working as a columnist, Ghimire has written about a dozen books in Nepali, including four collections of poems, a collection of essays, a collection of articles, an autobiography and two collections of stories that are currently on sale in the local market. She has won a number of national awards.She has won nearly a dozen national and regional literary awards since 1998, including one from the Nepali government.
Despite being decorated with so many awards, Ghimire still considers the day her first book – a poetry collection – was published as the happiest day of her life.
Ghimire says that her earnings from her books have helped to support her family. But she says that because of patriarchal traditions, her family doesn’t like to acknowledge the financial contributions of their daughter.
“I want to tell all that this thought should be changed,” Ghimire says
“All our troubles are resolved if we remain self-dependent and self-sufficient.”-Jhamak Ghimire, writer
Now, Ghimire types her articles on the computer with her feet and can access the Internet for information.
She and others say her story shows this.
“In the past, I was a nuisance and a troublemaker for all, but the situation has changed today,” she says.
source:mynepal.com.np
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