Bharat Jangam | |
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Born |
Bhaktapur, Nepal |
25 November 1947
Occupation | Writer, poet, journalist, hindu activist, anti-corruption activist |
Nationality | Nepal |
Bharat Jangam, also known as Bharat Mani jangam (Nepali: भरत जङम, born 25 November 1947) is a novelist and freelance journalist from Nepal. He is best known for the book Kalo Surya (Nepali:कालॊ सूय॔). Bharat Jangam is a creator of "Science of Anticorruption" in the academic arena. His neo-science is based on modern problems of humans, which is at present in the process of testing and developing in Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. He is also a Hindu activist.
Bharat Jangam was born on 25 Nov 1947 in an historically and architecturally renowned city called in Bhaktapur of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. He started his literary works during his childhood. At the age of 15, his poems were published in the local literary magazine for the first time, and gradually stories, essays, articles etc. were published. He graduated from the Tribuvan University in 1970. After his studies, he himself exhibited as a novelist and journalist in Nepalese society.
In 1979, he made a sensation in the country by releasing his first novel Kalo Surya (Nepali: कालॊ सूय॔) (The Black Sun). Though the country was ruled by the corrupt people of the Partyless Panchayat System when writing against the system was a big crime, he fearlessly released his book which explains the exploitation and suppression from the so-called rulers of that system. This book gained popularity in a very short time among the Nepalese Readers and to make it acquainted with the foreign readers. It was translated into English Language in 1990 and came into the world market in the name of The Black Sun. Later in 1992 it was translated into Russian and Chinese Language and 1993, it came out in the market in Hindi Language with the name Kala Suraj (Hindi: काला सूरज). Then it was again published in Bengali and Urdu languages from Bangladesh. It was then published in Assami and Kanada languages from India as well.
His next novel, Byuha Chakra (The Vicious Circle) was written in 1984. He has given a transparent view of the aristocratic rulers, nonpolitical system and has pointed out its weaknesses. This book is mainly based on the monstrous circles of all kinds of corruption caused by the ruthless rulers of the partyless Panchayat System that crumbled during the recent Democratic Uprising in 1990. The novel became very popular in the country and was later translated into English and Hindi Languages in India. In 1988, he was an Editor and Publisher of the weekly newspaper Nepal Awaz (Nepali:नॆपाल आवाज) for 3 years, from 1988, and made great contribution in the development and stability of the democracy in the country through journalism. He was also a regular columnist on political situation in Nepal and later it was consolidate in a book and was released in the name of 'Pachas Prasang' in 1992.