Today's Pasts: A Memoir: A Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780670086665)

Vendor: Bhisham Sahni
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Format: Hardcover
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Today's Pasts: A Memoir: A Memoir

$26.95

Today's Pasts: A Memoir: A Memoir

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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Rawalpindi in the first few decades of the twentieth century is a prosperous, bustling town, witnessing the first stirrings of the freedom movement. It is in this place and time that a delicate child grows into adolescence, at the heart of an unusual family. Adulthood and the horrific business of Partition drive the young man to Bombay, then Ambala and finally Delhi. As he gathers life experience and hones his talent at writing, his politics are formed. We observe the making of one of the icons of modern Hindi literature: Bhisham Sahni.

In addition to being the story of Sahni's life and art, Today's Pasts also chronicles the great cultural highpoints of modern India: the IPTA, the Progressive Writer's Association, the Nayi Kahani movement. The stars of Hindi and Urdu literature enter and exit the text as friends and familiars.

In Bhisham Sahni's hands a life story is transformed into a history of our present: one life bears witness to the tale of a nation.



Author: Bhisham Sahni
ISBN-10: 0670086665
ISBN-13: 9780670086665
Publisher: India Penguin
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2015
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
By Bhisham Sahni
By Bhisham Sahni
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Bhisham Sahni (1915-2003) was an iconic writer who transformed the landscape of Hindi literature. His oeuvre encompassed novels, plays, short stories and essays. Tamas, his best known novel, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 and was subsequently adapted into a National Award-winning film by Govind Nihalani. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1998, and the Shlaka Award, the Delhi government's highest literary prize, in 1999.

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