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Arbindanath Rimal (Nepali: अरविन्दनाथ रिमाल) is a Nepalese writer and intellectual.
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Early life
Arbind Rimal hails from a middle-class Brahmin family in Kathmandu. It is believed that Rimal's grandfather was close to Ranas during Rana dynasty.
Career
Rimal got into contacts with communism during his studies in India. He worked for about seven years with the Information department of the USSR Embassy India in New Delhi, as a translator for with publication of the Nepali-language publication of the embassy Soviet Bhumi. He had no links whatsoever with King Mahendra. He has visited The Soviet Union in 1956 November at the invitation of "Pravda editor" Later he visited Soviet Union in 1969 October and 1982 March.
In 1957, Rimal was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal at the second party congress. According to Rimal, he left the party in 1959 after the first general election on his own free will due to domestic problem and he remained always an independent supporter of the communist cause which can be corroborated in his memoirs "from 1997 to 2017 BS - An Observation"
Works
Rimal has written नेपाल थर्काइदिने १९ दिन ('19 days that shook Nepal'), an account of the events leading up to the 2006 Loktantra Andolan, and १९९७ देखि २०१७ साल ('From 1997 to 2017').