Hemang Dixit

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Hemang Dixit (born 11 June 1937) is a Nepalese educator, author, and consultant paediatrician. He uses the pseudonyms Mani Acharya and Mani Dixit for his written works.^[1] He worked as the Dean and Professor of Children's Health of the Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine.^[2] He has written various medical textbooks, novels, children's books and poems.

Dixit's novel Shatru of Kathmandu was published in October 2011. Though a work of fiction, the author used the experience of his attempted murder by extortionists as a starting point for the story.^[3][4]

Dixit graduated in Medicine from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London University. He has worked at Bir Hospital and Kanti Children’s Hospital.

He is a member of the Nepal Medical Council and has served two terms as the council's Vice Chair. He is also a member of the Nepal Medical Association, Nepal Paediatric Society, Nepal Leprosy Relief Association, and Nepal Red Cross. He was the vice president (1970-71 & 1974-75) and president (1991–92) of the Nepal Medical Association. He has been the vice president (1984–85) and president (1986–87) of the Nepal Paediatric Society.

He is also a member of the Literary Association Nepal (LAN).

All of Dixit's works, aside from his technical writings, were released under the pseudonym Mani Dixit.

• Nepal’s Quest for Health, 3rd Edition, Educational Publishing House, ISBN 99946-641-7-4
• 50 Years of NMA
• My 2 Innings (Memoirs), 2nd Edition, Makalu Publication House
• A Concise History of Medicine, Makalu Publication House

• Shatru of Kathmandu, Educational Publishing House.
• The Red Temple, 2nd Revised Edition Pilgrims Book House
• Come Tomorrow, 2nd Edition Adarsh Books, India
• Over the mountains, Ekta Books
• Conflict in the Himalayas, Ekta Books

• The Adventure of Chandra and Damaru-Two Boys of Nepal, 2nd Revised Edition, Pilgrims Book
• House Friends Colony, 2nd Editions, Rupa & Co., India
• Happenings in Shangri-La, 2nd Edition, Millennium Publication

• The Avenging Ghost, ISBN 99933-50-43-5
• Nonsense Verses from Nepal, Adarsh Books, India

• Reflections Down the Ages (2019), as Hemang Mani Dixit^[1]

• Official site