Brief biography of Jhamak Ghimire

Jhamak Kumari was born in Kachide Village Development in July 1980. She is an inspiration for most of us and an asset for the nation to relish forever. She was born with cerebral palsy and couldn't move her limbs, both hands, feet, and couldn't speak either. She is an absolute slap to the so called able society and for us, She is a paradigm to prove that nothing is impossible to do in this world. She lived a life full of struggles, sufferings, hatred like an animal which is vividly recorded in her autobiography "Jeevan Kanda Ki Phool" which was awarded with Madan Puraskar.

Education and writings of Jhamak Ghimire

She is conferred an honorary doctorate by the Mid Western University in Kathmandu for her contribution in promoting the Nepali literature despite her physical deformity. Instead of the challenges, she has written several collections of poems, songs, stories and is acknowledged nationally and internationally for providing an insight that one can change one's biggest weakness into strength and achieve dreams. Her creations including "Sankalpa", "Samjhana" and "Manche Vitra ka Yodha" are the matters of pride and something to be valued forever.

Having lived a life full of hatred and fighting against the sheer in-difference of her family and society and her firm determination to adjust and move on is awesome and something to ponder over. Her grandmother's love was only the one positive aspect of her life which paved the way for the greatest honour, she could rate herself as the Hellen Keller of Nepal.

Lesson from Jhamak Ghimire's life

She is an example of resolution for everyone who thinks physically challenged. We can draw many lessons from her struggling life. Firstly we can learn that we should always focus on the positive thoughts even though the situation is full of sufferings, we need to overcome it by being self guided positively. Secondly, we learnt that our destiny is in our hand, everything we need to succeed is already inside us. The third message that we can draw is, we must be convinced that we deserve to get it.

Furthermore, Jhamak gives me a lesson that women should be free from the bondage. She has represented many faces of Nepalese women through her own life. We should also learn from her stories that adversity transforms inspiration and will-power is the greatest guide of one as she did it all through her self, learning which was confined only to her limited exposure. I also learnt that we must have a vision and its terrible not to have it. We should always go after our dreams instead of keeping them away.

Conclusively, we believe that from Jhamak Kumari Ghimire's life we all people should be self guided that great things only happens when we have hope, determination and positive approach. And if we continuously remained focused on our vision, we can surely change our dreams into reality.

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