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प्रतिनिधि कहानियाँ: भीष्म साहनी
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173 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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February 15, 2011
For any constant reader, sometimes one finds authors who are only one book wonders leaving us wanting for more and sometimes one stumbles on authors which make us glad and even more glad knowing they have a great collection to read from. As my reading progresses, and I venture into new genres, explore new writers and discover new themes I not only widen my choices but also deepen the chosen.
This is what I felt when I read Bhisham Sahni adding to my favourite league of legendry Indian short story writers – Prem Chand, Saddat Hassan Manto & Ismat Chugtai. All these authors beautifully write about the issues plaguing our society in the 19th and 20th century – the gender bias, child marriage, religious politics, changing family values, social barriers and evolving traditions and values. Barring Premchand the other three authors were greatly impacted by the dark times of partition living in undivided India at the time of Independence. In many of their stories they capture the pre and post independence era bringing forth the beautiful and ugly side of relationships and religions. How the partition and religious fervour created distrust against the same people with whom, they grew up, studied or lived their entire lives. A man caught up in religious hate and group mentality can do such selfish and mean acts which even he feels ashamed to acknowledge or accept later.
A common man struggling with daily issues of money, social status, family, relatives, ethics, self-respect and moral choices. Each story touching the cords of your heart in a way that you feel that you have lived through them or probably even living through them. He forms a warm emotional connect with the reader through his stories about changing patterns of Indian society & family life, crumbling structures of joint family and emerging trends of independent and modern nuclear families. A lot of his stories are on older people reminiscing their younger days of glory and freedom being a burden on younger generation during their older days. How the same parents who give birth, take care and provide for us become a burden on the children with age. A man while watching his old and sick mother and her friend talk about their fun filled younger days, feels like two teenage girls are chit chatting. An age old powerful bureaucratic man lives a lonely and empty retired life, a woman lives like furniture in her son’s home still finding little joys in his happiness. Bhisham creates a satire on the changing Indian victim amidst the pre-historic legal system where a man looses and later finds his prized new scooter, but stays stuck in the maze of Indian judiciary tamasha even after the scooter passes its age and time.
Bhisham’s stories based on common world and common people but so unique in their own way. Definitely add him to your list of authors its worth a read any day.
This is what I felt when I read Bhisham Sahni adding to my favourite league of legendry Indian short story writers – Prem Chand, Saddat Hassan Manto & Ismat Chugtai. All these authors beautifully write about the issues plaguing our society in the 19th and 20th century – the gender bias, child marriage, religious politics, changing family values, social barriers and evolving traditions and values. Barring Premchand the other three authors were greatly impacted by the dark times of partition living in undivided India at the time of Independence. In many of their stories they capture the pre and post independence era bringing forth the beautiful and ugly side of relationships and religions. How the partition and religious fervour created distrust against the same people with whom, they grew up, studied or lived their entire lives. A man caught up in religious hate and group mentality can do such selfish and mean acts which even he feels ashamed to acknowledge or accept later.
A common man struggling with daily issues of money, social status, family, relatives, ethics, self-respect and moral choices. Each story touching the cords of your heart in a way that you feel that you have lived through them or probably even living through them. He forms a warm emotional connect with the reader through his stories about changing patterns of Indian society & family life, crumbling structures of joint family and emerging trends of independent and modern nuclear families. A lot of his stories are on older people reminiscing their younger days of glory and freedom being a burden on younger generation during their older days. How the same parents who give birth, take care and provide for us become a burden on the children with age. A man while watching his old and sick mother and her friend talk about their fun filled younger days, feels like two teenage girls are chit chatting. An age old powerful bureaucratic man lives a lonely and empty retired life, a woman lives like furniture in her son’s home still finding little joys in his happiness. Bhisham creates a satire on the changing Indian victim amidst the pre-historic legal system where a man looses and later finds his prized new scooter, but stays stuck in the maze of Indian judiciary tamasha even after the scooter passes its age and time.
Bhisham’s stories based on common world and common people but so unique in their own way. Definitely add him to your list of authors its worth a read any day.
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August 24, 2023
Bhisham Sahni has to be one of the most accessible, entertaining, and perceptive realist of all the Hindi writers. A perfect collection of his best works!!!
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