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Kamleshwar started working his ambitious novel in May 1990, aiming to understand Partition through allegory and realism. [9]The first English translation of the novel came in 2001, in a partition anthology Translating partition published by Katha, which also featured works by Saadat Hasan Manto and Bhisham Sahni. [10]
Godaan (Hindi: गोदान, Urdu: گودان, romanized: gōdān, lit. 'cow donation') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel ...
Nirmala [a] is a Hindi novel written by Indian writer Munshi Premchand.The melodramatic novel is centered on Nirmala, a young girl who was forced to marry a widower of her father's age.
Gora (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj.It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore's twelve novels.
Raag Darbari is a satirical Hindi novel written by Sri Lal Sukla, published in 1968. [1] [2] He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, in 1969 for this novel. [3] The novel illustrates the failing values present in post-Independence Indian society. It exposes the helplessness of intellectuals in the face of a ...
Maila Aanchal (Hindi: मैला आँचल; English: The Soiled Border) is a 1954 Hindi novel written by Phanishwar Nath Renu. [1] [2] After Premchand's Godan, 'Maila Anchal' is regarded as the most significant Hindi novel in the Hindi literature tradition. [3] [4] It is one of the greatest examples of "Anchalik Upanyas" (regional novel ...
The Vendor of Sweets (1967), by R. K. Narayan, is the biography of a fictional character named Sri K. V. Jagan who is a sweet vendor of (a fictional Indian town) Malgudi. The story beautifully reflects his conflict with his estranged son and how he finally leaves for renunciation, overwhelmed by the sheer pressure and monotony of his life.
Thanda Gosht (Urdu: ٹھنڈا گوشت ALA-LC: Ṭhanḍā Gos̱ẖt IPA: [ʈʰənɖɑː ɡoːʃt̪], English: Cold Flesh) is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto. [1] The book was first published in a literary magazine in March 1950 in Pakistan.