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इस संग्रह की कहानियाँ मानवीय अनुभूति के धरातल पर रची गई ऐसी रचनाएँ हैं जिनके पात्र वायवीय दुनिया से परे, संवेदनाओं और अनुभव की ठोस तथा प्रामाणिक भूमि पर अपने सपने रचते हैं और ये सपने परिस्थितियों परिवेश और अन्याय की परम्पराओं के दबाव के सामने कभी-कभी थकते और निराश होते भले ही दिखते हों लेकिन टूटते कभी नहीं पुनःपुनः जी उठते हैं।
इस संग्रह में सम्मिलित कहानियों में कुछ प्रमुख हैं-ईसा के घर इनसान, गीत का चुम्बन, एक कमजोर लड़की की कहानी, सयानी बुआ, दो कलाकार और मैं हार गई। ये सभी कहानियाँ मन्नूजी की गहरी मनोवैज्ञानिक पकड़, मध्यवर्गीय विरोधाभासों के तलस्पर्शी अवगाहन, विश्लेषण और समाज की स्थापित, आक्रान्ता नैतिक जड़ताओं के प्रति प्रश्नाकुलता आदि तमाम लेखकीय विशेषताओं का प्रतिनिधित्व करती हैं जिनके लिए मन्नूजी को हिन्दी की आधुनिक कहानी-धारा में विशिष्ट स्थान प्राप्त है।
इस संग्रह में सम्मिलित कहानियों में कुछ प्रमुख हैं-ईसा के घर इनसान, गीत का चुम्बन, एक कमजोर लड़की की कहानी, सयानी बुआ, दो कलाकार और मैं हार गई। ये सभी कहानियाँ मन्नूजी की गहरी मनोवैज्ञानिक पकड़, मध्यवर्गीय विरोधाभासों के तलस्पर्शी अवगाहन, विश्लेषण और समाज की स्थापित, आक्रान्ता नैतिक जड़ताओं के प्रति प्रश्नाकुलता आदि तमाम लेखकीय विशेषताओं का प्रतिनिधित्व करती हैं जिनके लिए मन्नूजी को हिन्दी की आधुनिक कहानी-धारा में विशिष्ट स्थान प्राप्त है।
164 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Mannu Bhandari
53 books96 followersMannu Bhandari was born on April 3, 1931, in Bhanpura, Madhya Pradesh, India. She attended school in Ajmer and later she graduated from Calcutta University in 1949, followed by an M.A. degree in Hindi from the Banaras Hindu University in 1953.
She is wife of famous Hindi writer Rajendra Yadav, with whom she co-wrote the book, Ek Inch Muskaan (A Little Smile).
In post independent Hindi literature many new women writers emerged
and attracted the attention of readers and critics but after initial shining some
of them did not make writing of their successful career. Many women writers
have entered the arena of literary writing. Several highly talented writers have
enriched Hindi literature with their creative writings. To name a few Usha
Priyamvada, Malti Joshi, Dipti Khandelwal, Mridila Garg, Mannu Bhandari,
Shubha Verma are some of the most accomplished contemporary Hindi
women writers. Their writing reflect how modernism, contemporary social
situations and currents and cross currents at life have molded their writing and
subject matter as well as impact on them. Moreover these women writers
have written about Indian women, their pains, conflicts, predicaments against
the background of contemporary India. They have focused their attention not
only on the outer situation and conflict but also on inner turmoil of modern
women. In this reference writer like Mannu Bhandari deserves special
attention. Her contribution to the world of fiction dates to the 6os. She has
written in and experimented with varieties of genres of literature like the short
story novel, political novel, literature for children, drama, screen play, and
dialogues for film etc. Mannu Bhandari has also chaired the directorship of
Premchand Srujanpith in Vikram University, Ujjian. In 2008 Mannu Bhandari
was given for her autobiography Ek Kahani Yah Bhi the prestigious Vyas
Sanmaan for year 2008, which is instituted by the K.K. Birala Foundation and
given every year for outstanding literary work in Hindi authored by Indian citizens.
She is wife of famous Hindi writer Rajendra Yadav, with whom she co-wrote the book, Ek Inch Muskaan (A Little Smile).
In post independent Hindi literature many new women writers emerged
and attracted the attention of readers and critics but after initial shining some
of them did not make writing of their successful career. Many women writers
have entered the arena of literary writing. Several highly talented writers have
enriched Hindi literature with their creative writings. To name a few Usha
Priyamvada, Malti Joshi, Dipti Khandelwal, Mridila Garg, Mannu Bhandari,
Shubha Verma are some of the most accomplished contemporary Hindi
women writers. Their writing reflect how modernism, contemporary social
situations and currents and cross currents at life have molded their writing and
subject matter as well as impact on them. Moreover these women writers
have written about Indian women, their pains, conflicts, predicaments against
the background of contemporary India. They have focused their attention not
only on the outer situation and conflict but also on inner turmoil of modern
women. In this reference writer like Mannu Bhandari deserves special
attention. Her contribution to the world of fiction dates to the 6os. She has
written in and experimented with varieties of genres of literature like the short
story novel, political novel, literature for children, drama, screen play, and
dialogues for film etc. Mannu Bhandari has also chaired the directorship of
Premchand Srujanpith in Vikram University, Ujjian. In 2008 Mannu Bhandari
was given for her autobiography Ek Kahani Yah Bhi the prestigious Vyas
Sanmaan for year 2008, which is instituted by the K.K. Birala Foundation and
given every year for outstanding literary work in Hindi authored by Indian citizens.
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June 16, 2013
Funny, witty and insightful.
'Main Haar Gayi' is a compilation of 12 stories. Most of them host some female as protagonist. Conveying varying attitudes of women towards life, namely some wanting all the attention (thus whining in the lack of it) and some wanting to stand on their their own, this book makes a fine read.
Every story starts casually, plots getting interesting as time goes on and then boom, you are not meant to laugh, but you do, because that is the only thing to do when small feelings give rise to big waves. Some stories like 'Keel Aur Kasak' and 'Ek Kamjor Ladki Ki Kahani' are very insightful to female psychology.
'Main Haar Gayi' is a compilation of 12 stories. Most of them host some female as protagonist. Conveying varying attitudes of women towards life, namely some wanting all the attention (thus whining in the lack of it) and some wanting to stand on their their own, this book makes a fine read.
Every story starts casually, plots getting interesting as time goes on and then boom, you are not meant to laugh, but you do, because that is the only thing to do when small feelings give rise to big waves. Some stories like 'Keel Aur Kasak' and 'Ek Kamjor Ladki Ki Kahani' are very insightful to female psychology.
July 31, 2022
Average short stories. More of emotional melodrama than substance.
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