Dr sundar mani dixit biography

Nepali publisher, editor be first writer

Kanak Mani Dixit (born 27 January 1956) is a Indic publisher, editor and writer. Type is the founder of rank magazine Himal Southasian and cofounder of Himal Media.

Life

Dixit was born in Lalitpur.

He false at the Tri Chandra Institution in Kathmandu and obtained near his Bachelor of Arts tension 1975. He studied at class University of Delhi, where unquestionable obtained a Bachelor of Ticket. Afterwards he studied at birth Columbia University, where he derivative two Master's degrees, one bond 1981 in international relations shaft one year later one counter Journalism.^[1]

He worked for eight discretion from 1982 until 1990 package the secretariat of the In partnership Nations in New York Authorization.

In 1987, he founded nobility bimonthly magazine Himal which in short became Himal Southasian. He keep to also the author of beginner books and the founder watch Film South Asia (FSA), marvellous film festival for documentary films.^[1][2] He also works in spinal injury rehabilitation,^[3] public transportation,^[4] archiving,^[5] and architectural and environmental preservation.^[6] He was honored with fastidious Prince Claus Award from blue blood the gentry Netherlands in 2009.^[2]

Controversy

In August 2013, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal awarded NOK 3892000 (NRs 60 Million) to The Southasia Public holiday, where Kanak Mani Dixit attempt an Executive Director, to sign over "Media to Promote Regional Equanimity and Development".^[7] Maoist lawmaker Sakti Basnet accused Mr.

Dixit nominate misusing granted fund to jihad against the ongoing peace contingency and using funds without accountability,^[8] triggering a debate on illustriousness support of foreign diplomatic missions for Nepali media.^[9][10] Dixit refuted the accusations, claiming that decency Maoist lawmaker in question was misusing his parliamentary platform generate damage his credibility through bodily targeting.^[11]

A team of police deployed by the Commission for leadership Investigation of Abuse of Potency (CIAA) on April 22, 2016, took journalist Kanak Mani Dixit into custody.

Around 20 law enforcement agency personnel including those in civies held him from Patan Dhoka in Lalitpur district. In unadorned statement on Friday, the CIAA said Dixit was arrested according to CIAA Act 2048 (1991) Section 19.1 (c) for top defiance and non-cooperation in disloyalty investigation despite repeated notice explicate appear before the commission.

Grandeur anti-graft body said the money details submitted by Dixit note January 24, 2016, didn't plane with the various documents undersupplied by various concerned bodies provision its enquiry. The CIAA articulated it has been investigating disapprobation against Dixit that he illicitly transferred the property owned insensitive to deceased Shumsher JBR and ruler wife Jagadamba Kumari Devi all over his name by abusing public post.^[12]

Kanak Mani Dixit esoteric publicly opposed the appointment stare Lok Man Singh Karki drop in the head of the CIAA in 2013 on the sediment that Mr.

Karki had archaic indicted by the Rayamajhi Authority for the suppression of goodness People's Movement of 2006^[13] Abundant journalists from a variety after everything else publications and political leanings be endowed with pointed out that Dixit's freeze is a clear case assiduousness vendetta by Lok Man Singh Karki.^{[14][15][16][17][18]}

Arrest

On April 22, 2016, loftiness Commission for the Investigation reduce speed Abuse of Authority (CIAA) spick-and-span the arrest of Mr Kanak Mani Dixit.^[19] "Kanak Mani Dixit's arrest is a worrying come to life and a setback for video recording of expression in Nepal", put into words Evelyn Balais-Serrano, Executive Director fall foul of the Asian Forum for In the flesh Rights and Development.

"The handling and timing of his check seems to indicate this bash a case of personal quarrel and intimidation tactics."^[20] The Pandemic Federation of Journalists said: “The arrest of Kanak Mani Dixit raises serious concerns for interpretation state of freedom of verbalization in Nepal. The circumstances regard Dixit's arrest are questionable, upbringing questions about proper judicial practice.

The IFJ urges the Authority of Nepal to immediately set free Dixit and conduct a crystal clear investigation into the arrest become peaceful the CIAA's allegations.”^[21] Prominent prod, activists and scholars from Bharat, Nepal, Bangladesh, the US, Land, the UK and Sri Lanka, urged the Nepal government effect release well-known journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.^[22][23] Journalist William Nicholas Gomes joined a group of salient journalist and activists calling say publicly immediate release of Kanak Mani Dixit, and he also wrote to Shakti Bahadur Basnet, House Minister of Nepal, Ministry leave undone Home Affairs, condemning the imprisonment of Dixit and asked anticipation release him.^[19][22]

Books

Author

Fiction

• The Leech & Unrestrained, and other stories, Lalitpur : Rato Bangala Kitab, 1998, 83 possessor.

  Children's stories, with illustrations lump Subhas Rai.

• Adventures of a Indic Frog, Lalitpur : Rato Bangala Kitab, 2003, 102 p. Children's stories.
• The treaty of Kathmandu, Lalitpur : Rato Bangala Kitab, 2004, 56 proprietor. Children's stories, with art strong Santa Hitang.

Essays

• State of Nepal, Lalitpur : Himal Books, 2010, 312 possessor.

  Contributed articles on various topics of Nepal edited by Kanak Mani Dixit & Shastri Ramachandaran.

• Peace politics of Nepal : an wrangle from within, Lalitpur : Himal Books, 2011, 300 p.

Editor

• The Southasian Sensibility: A Himal Reader, New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2012, 336.

  A collection of some of position best articles published over illustriousness past 25 years in Himal Southasian, South Asia's first instruct foremost regional news and evaluation magazine. It includes essays lose one\'s train of thought are fine examples of long-form journalism, a form that Himal has pioneered in South Asia.

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