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Prof. Harish Trivedi, retired professor of English, Delhi University, speaks of Verma’s place in the Nayi Kahani movement, his experimentation with Hindi, and the role of love and silence in his writings. He also discusses the role Verma played in providing Hindi readers access to Europe as…
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Gagan Gill, poet and wife of Nirmal Verma, speaks of Verma’s personality, his life experiences in Europe and Delhi, and how they shaped the themes he engaged with and his peculiar writing style. Gill discusses in particular the role of literature, and how both Partition trauma and the…
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Prof. Nityanand Tiwari, retired professor of Hindi, Delhi University, speaks of the relationship of politics and art as well as the concept of alienation for Nirmal Verma. Comparing Verma to Jainendra and Mukhtibodh, he discusses how Verma differed from them and built on the works of writers…
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Prof. Shashi Kumar ‘Shashikanth’ is an assistant professor of Hindi at Motilal Nehru College (day), Delhi University. He interviewed Nirmal Verma in 2002 and he discusses here some of the questions he posed as well as his impressions of Verma on a personal note. He also provides a brief…
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Novels
Verma, Nirmal. Antim Aranya. 2000.
———. A Rag Called Happiness. Translated by Kuldip Singh. Delhi: Penguin, 2014. …
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इसलिए माँ ने यह नोटबुक मुझे दी थी. कहती थीं, देखते हुए हम जो भी भूल जाते हैं, लिखते हुए वह एक बार फिर याद आ जाता है; लेकिन 'याद करना' देखना नहीं है; […]यह एक तरह का सौदा है...देखने, मारने और याद करने के बीच. हम स्मृति में उसे पकड़ते हैं, जो मृत और मुर्दा हैं; जब वह जीवित थी, हम उसे ओझल कर…
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One of the most prominent modern Hindi writers, Nirmal Verma (1929–2005) significantly changed thematic concerns articulated in Hindi literature through formal inventiveness. This module is a small attempt at capturing the wide range of topics Verma explored, and the formal elements used…
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Questions: Today we are going to talk about Comparative Literature and its development in India in the last sixty years or perhaps even more, and that is the question we would like to begin with, whether to trace the beginning of Comparative Literature to 1956 when the first department was…
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Question: Where do you think the relevance of Comparative Literature lies vis-a-vis the socio-cultural context of India?
Jasbir Jain: Comparative Literature is relevant on account of several reasons: our multilingualism, the need to widen our horizons, be in touch with the rest of the…
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