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उसके हिस्से की धूप
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First published January 1, 1975
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Mridula Garg
44 books20 followersMridula Garg is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi and English languages. She has published over 30 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essays – including several translated into English. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
She published her debut novel, Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop, in 1975. She was arrested for obscenity after her novel Chittacobra was published in 1979, in a case that extended for two years but did not result in prison. Several of her works have feminist themes, and she told The Hindu in 2010, "My writing is not feminist. One of the metaphors of womanhood is guilt, be it in sexual matters, in working woman or non-working. My women felt no guilt ever. It ruffled feathers. We have the cerebral part and the womb, which encompasses and empowers you but at the same time also tightens you. My kind of feminism is that each woman can be different."
She has been a columnist, writing on environment, women issues, child servitude and literature. She wrote a fortnightly column, Parivar in Ravivar magazine from Kolkata for five years between 1985-1990 and another column Kataksh (Satire) in India Today (Hindi) for 7 years, between 2003 and 2010. Her novels and stories have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages like German, Czech, Japanese and English.
She was a research associate at the Center for South Asian Studies in the University of California-Berkeley, USA in April 1990. She has been invited to speak on Hindi literature and criticism, and discrimination against women, at universities and conferences in erstwhile Yugoslavia (1988), the USA (1990 and 1991), and was a delegate to Interlit-3, Germany(1993). She was invited to and Japan (2003), Italy (2011), Denmark and Russia (2012). She traveled widely and lectured and read from her works there.
She published her debut novel, Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop, in 1975. She was arrested for obscenity after her novel Chittacobra was published in 1979, in a case that extended for two years but did not result in prison. Several of her works have feminist themes, and she told The Hindu in 2010, "My writing is not feminist. One of the metaphors of womanhood is guilt, be it in sexual matters, in working woman or non-working. My women felt no guilt ever. It ruffled feathers. We have the cerebral part and the womb, which encompasses and empowers you but at the same time also tightens you. My kind of feminism is that each woman can be different."
She has been a columnist, writing on environment, women issues, child servitude and literature. She wrote a fortnightly column, Parivar in Ravivar magazine from Kolkata for five years between 1985-1990 and another column Kataksh (Satire) in India Today (Hindi) for 7 years, between 2003 and 2010. Her novels and stories have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages like German, Czech, Japanese and English.
She was a research associate at the Center for South Asian Studies in the University of California-Berkeley, USA in April 1990. She has been invited to speak on Hindi literature and criticism, and discrimination against women, at universities and conferences in erstwhile Yugoslavia (1988), the USA (1990 and 1991), and was a delegate to Interlit-3, Germany(1993). She was invited to and Japan (2003), Italy (2011), Denmark and Russia (2012). She traveled widely and lectured and read from her works there.
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April 19, 2020
मृदुला गर्ग जी का उपन्यास उसके हिस्से की धूप पहले बार 1975 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। वैसे तो यह उपन्यास लगभग पैंतालीस साल पहले लिखा गया था लेकिन आज भी यह उपन्यास कई लोगों के लिए प्रासंगिक होगा।
उपन्यास एक अपने में उलझी हुई किरदार की यात्रा है जो उपन्यास के खत्म होने तक खुद तक पहुँचती है और अपनी उलझन को काफी हद तक दूर कर देती है। अंत में उसके लिए कुछ निर्णय मुझे पसंद नहीं आये लेकिन उपन्यास सोचने के लिए आपको काफी कुछ दे जाता है।
मुझे उपन्यास बहुत पसंद आया।
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उसके हिस्से की धूप
उपन्यास एक अपने में उलझी हुई किरदार की यात्रा है जो उपन्यास के खत्म होने तक खुद तक पहुँचती है और अपनी उलझन को काफी हद तक दूर कर देती है। अंत में उसके लिए कुछ निर्णय मुझे पसंद नहीं आये लेकिन उपन्यास सोचने के लिए आपको काफी कुछ दे जाता है।
मुझे उपन्यास बहुत पसंद आया।
उपन्यास के प्रति मेरे विस्तृत विचार आप निम्न लिंक पर जाकर पढ़ सकते हैं:
उसके हिस्से की धूप
September 21, 2022
"ज्वार या भाटा, दोनो में से कोई भी सागर का संपूर्ण परिचय नहीं है। उसका सच्चा परिचय है उसकी गहराई में, उसके विस्तार में, उन असंख्य सीप शंख, पौधों मोंगों में, जीव जंतुओं में जो उसकी अतल गहराई में पलते हैं।"
इस उपन्यास की सबसे अहम बात ये है कि इन किरदारों को हम जानते हैं - हम खुद मनीषा, मधुकर या जितेन हैं या हमारे आसपास के लोग ये किरदार हैं। हम अक्सर स्वयं को न समझकर दूसरों के सहारे जीवन व्यतीत करने की कोशिश करते हैं और ये उपन्यास उसी कोशिश की सच्चाई परखने का प्रयास करता है।
इस उपन्यास की सबसे अहम बात ये है कि इन किरदारों को हम जानते हैं - हम खुद मनीषा, मधुकर या जितेन हैं या हमारे आसपास के लोग ये किरदार हैं। हम अक्सर स्वयं को न समझकर दूसरों के सहारे जीवन व्यतीत करने की कोशिश करते हैं और ये उपन्यास उसी कोशिश की सच्चाई परखने का प्रयास करता है।
November 1, 2025
A deeply intimate portrayal of the interiority of a woman as she moves through a marriage, an affair, a divorce, and another marriage while discovering a sense of her own self.
November 30, 2024
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March 23, 2026
“प्रेम जीवन का लक्ष्य नहीं हो सकता”
February 6, 2025
Before this, I read चितकोबरा and मैं और मैं by the same author, and ever since, I’ve been a big 🪭 of Mridula Garg. As for this novel—her debut—I am not disappointed at all.
What’s the point of this novel? I think the point is that relationships are inherently complicated and imperfect, and anyone who seeks perfection in something imperfect is a lunatic. Although you're free to be a lunatic. As Plato said, _Love is a serious mental disease._
Throughout the novel, the only sensible character is Sudha (because she’s single and not interested in anyone). Other than her… fuck मनीषा, fuck जितेन, and fuck मधुकर. These three are just a bunch of idiots, ruining each other’s lives.
Fuck मनीषा twice because she was cheating on her first husband, and after the divorce, she was cheating on her second husband with her first husband. So yeah, she sucked.
जितेन is a workaholic who doesn’t give a flying fuck about his wife.
मधुकर? I don’t even wanna talk about him.
4.0/5.0
What’s the point of this novel? I think the point is that relationships are inherently complicated and imperfect, and anyone who seeks perfection in something imperfect is a lunatic. Although you're free to be a lunatic. As Plato said, _Love is a serious mental disease._
Throughout the novel, the only sensible character is Sudha (because she’s single and not interested in anyone). Other than her… fuck मनीषा, fuck जितेन, and fuck मधुकर. These three are just a bunch of idiots, ruining each other’s lives.
Fuck मनीषा twice because she was cheating on her first husband, and after the divorce, she was cheating on her second husband with her first husband. So yeah, she sucked.
जितेन is a workaholic who doesn’t give a flying fuck about his wife.
मधुकर? I don’t even wanna talk about him.
4.0/5.0
May 30, 2025
I remember being young and naive picking this book only because I loved how the title sounded. The story was overall fine, and nothing extraordinary, but I remember when I was caught reading this very book by one of my "friend" how their sister loves this book it made my 15 year old self very happy and that is why it holds such a special place in my heart.
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