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Daar Se Bichhudi
  • Language: hi
  • Pages: 87

Daar Se Bichhudi

पाशो अभी किशोरी ही थी, जब उसकी माँ विधवा होकर भी शेखों की हवेली जा चढ़ी । ऐसे में माँ ही उसके मामुओं के लिए 'कुलबोरनी' नहीं हो गई, वह भी सन्देहास्पद हो उठी । नानी ने भी एक दिन कहा ही था-' 'सँभलकर री, एक बार का थिरका पाँव जिन्दगानी धूल में मिला देगा !' ' लेकिन थिरकने-जैसा तो पाशो की ...

Krishna Sobti
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Krishna Sobti

This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing. Also known for her extraordinary use of the Hindi language, she emerges as an embodiment of a counter archive. While presenting the author in the context of her times, this volume offers critical perspectives to define her position in the canon of modern Indian literature. Alongside important critical essays on her, the inclusion of excerpts from the translations of some major works by the author, such as Zindaginama, Mitro Marjani and Ai Ladki, greatly facilitate an understanding of her worldview and the contexts in which she wrote. Also included i...

Zindaginama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Zindaginama

It is sometime in the first decade of the 20th century. The British Imperialists have been in India for over 150 years. However, life in the small village of Shahpur in undivided Punjab has remained largely unchanged. The menfolk look to the wealthy and worldly-wise Shahji and his benevolent younger brother Kashi for support and advice, while it is Shahji's wife's home and hearth that is the centre of all celebrations for the women. Local disputes, trade, politics, a trickling of news from the Lahore newspaper are all discussed every evening at the Shah's haveli. But as the Ghadar Movement gains momentum elsewhere in Punjab and in Bengal, bringing into focus the excesses of the British, the simple village of Shahpur cannot help looking at itself. The discontent has set in. Krishna Sobti's magnum opus, Zindaginama brilliantly captures the story of India through a village where people of both faiths coexisted peacefully, living off the land.

Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing

How does a writer discuss her creative process and her views on a writer’s role in society? How do her comments on writing relate to her works? The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) is known primarily as a novelist. However, she also extensively wrote about her views on the creative process, the figure of the writer, historical writing, and the position of writers within the public sphere. This study is the first to examine in detail the relationship between Sobti’s views on poetics as exposed in her non-fictional texts and her own literary practice. The writer’s self-representation is analysed through her use of metaphors to explain her creative process. Sobti’s construction of...

The Music of Solitude
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

The Music of Solitude

Aranya and Ishan are neighbours. They are in the autumn of their lives. She is impulsive, anarchic and fiercely feminist. He is gentle, sensitive, orderly and believes in the institution of family, even though he has no one to call his own. Aranya thinks about the many Delhis, from the older one glimmering on the other side of the river to the trans-Yamuna residential complex where she lives now. Ishan is deeply spiritual and draws strength from his Danish guide in the Himalayas. The two of them banter about time, existentialism, changing landscapes, food, music and human nature. They think aloud about aeging and death, and wonder living the way they do amounts to biding time. Krishna Sobti's Samay Sargam is a novel about sharing solitudes and growing old in a city that is at once keenly private and aggressively collective. This is as much a portrait of the changing times as it the story of a beautiful romance that thrives on companionship.

Sunflowers Of The Dark
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

Sunflowers Of The Dark

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Katha

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Badlon Ke Ghere
  • Language: hi
  • Pages: 212

Badlon Ke Ghere

आधुनिक हिन्दी कथा-जगत में अपने विशिष्ट लेखन के लिए जानी जानेवाली वरिष्ठ लेखिका कृष्णा सोबती की प्रारम्भिक कहानियाँ इस पुस्तक में संकलित हैं। शब्दों की आत्मा से साक्षात्कार करने वाली कृष्णा सोबती ने अपनी रचना-यात्रा के हर पड़ाव पर किसी-न-किसी सुखद विस्मय से हिन्दी-जग...

The Heart Has Its Reasons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Heart Has Its Reasons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Katha

Set in the first quarter of 20th century Delhi, The Heart Has Its Reasons dwells on the fine balance between love and family. Writer par excellence and recipient of the Katha Chudamani and Sahitya Akademi Awards, Sobti s powerful narratives defy territorial specifics.

Dilo-Danish
  • Language: hi
  • Pages: 240

Dilo-Danish

A novel based on social themes.

A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There

Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on arrival with condescension for her refugee status, and treated with sexist disdain by Zutshi Sahib, the man charged with hiring for the position. Undaunted, Krishna fights back. But when an opportunity to become governess to the child maharaja Tej Singh Bahadur presents itself-and with it a chance to make Sirohi her new home once and for all-there is no telling how long this idyll will last. Part novel, part memoir, part feminist anthem, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There is not only a powerful tale of Partition loss and dislocation but also charts the odyssey of a spirited young woman determined to build a new identity for herself on her own terms.