ले.क. मायानाथ झा नहि रहला

Mayanath Jha (born 1 April 1945) died in a Patna hospital after a sudden illness. Bhimnath Jha, his kinsman, two years his senior, remembers a man loved for his hard work, sociability, gentle speech, learning and literary taste. After retiring from the army he turned to writing, and published fourteen books. His first, Jakar Nari Chatur Hoi, a collection of children’s stories, won the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar.मायानाथ झा (जन्म 1 अप्रैल 1945) एकाएक बीमार भेला आ पटनाक एक अस्पतालमे हुनक देहान्त भेलनि। हुनक कौलिक भाइ, दू वर्ष जेठ, भीमनाथ झा हुनका कर्मठता, मिलनसारिता, मृदुभाषिता, विद्वत्ता आ साहित्यिक सुरुचिक लेल स्मरण करैत छथि। सेनासँ अवकाशक बाद ओ लेखन दिस प्रवृत्त भेला आ चौदह पोथी प्रकाशित कयलनि। पहिल पोथी ‘जकर नारि चतुर होइ’ (बालकथा-संग्रह) साहित्य अकादेमी बाल साहित्य पुरस्कारसँ सम्मानित भेल।

The tribute lists his books: children’s stories, collections of sayings and humour, poetry in Maithili and Hindi, translations (including Animal Farm) and a travel-memoir, and his 462-page autobiography, Jinagik Chinagi (‘Sparks of a Life’), which describes his struggles and his army years.स्मृति-लेखमे हुनक पोथीक सूची अछि: बालकथा, सूक्ति आ हास्यक संग्रह, मैथिली-हिन्दी कविता, अनुवाद (‘एनिमल फार्म’ सहित) आ भ्रमण-संस्मरण, आ 462 पृष्ठक आत्मकथा ‘जिनगीक चिनगी’, जाहिमे हुनक जीवन-संघर्ष आ सेनाक वर्षक वर्णन अछि।