MANI DIXIT is a Nepali, born at Kathmandu in June 1937. Following schooling at Sherwood College, Naini Tal and Bishop Cotton School, Shimla he went to the UK to study medicine. He did so at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on the Strand in London, qualifying in 1961. Returning back to Nepal, he involved himself in medical work and teaching medical students.
During his school days Dixit remembers reading Gulliver’s Travels and Alice in Wonderland both of which impressed him immensely. It was after reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie that prompted him to write Annapurna Fantasy for Nepali children. This story set in Nepal has its characters travelling all over the country and even to Mumbai in India during the course of which they have many adventures.
Annapurna Fantasy – Mani Dixit
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