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.
6 E-böcker av Bhisham Sahni
Bhisham Sahni: Tamas
In a city in undivided Punjab, Nathu, a tanner, is bribed to kill a pig. When the animal s carcass is discovered on the steps of the local mosque the next morning, simmering tensions explode into an …
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Bhisham Sahni: Boy with a Catapult
A delectable offering of the best stories written by master storytellers, including Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Satyajit Ray, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth, to name a few. Each story rep …
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Bhisham Sahni: Today’s Pasts
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 …
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Bhisham Sahni: Mansion
Magnificent in scope and intensely moving, Mansion spans the long years between the fall of the Khalsa regime and the turbulence of the British Raj. Innumerable characters populate these pages: from …
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Bhisham Sahni: Basanti
The braid of young Basanti s life thickens with time. Feisty and fearless, she plays hide and seek with her overbearing father, dodges the crippled old tailor whom she s sold to and elopes with a han …
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Bhisham Sahni: Boyhood
In a bustling town in Punjab before the Partition, a sickly but restless child longs to play with the neighbourhood youngsters. He is constantly thwarted by his mother s anxious need to coddle him at …
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