He was born on 18 August 1913,[2] and died at the age of 95 [3] at his residence at Keishamthong Top Leirak, Imphal on 8 June 2008.
[4] RK Shitaljit was a teacher and Headmaster of Ram Lal Paul High School, Imphal.
Besides being a dedicated teacher and a noted writer, he was also a correspondent of the Amitra Bazar Patrika, The Statesman and Press Trust of India.
[7] Some of the books he translated from Bengali to Manipuri language are the Gita Govinda and Padavali gi Shayan Shaikhan.
He wrote a book of short stories called Leikolnungda (In the Garden)[10] in 1946, a year before the India's independence.