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Bhisham Sahni's epic work Tamas (Darkness, Ignorance 1974) is a novel based on the riots of 1947 Partition of India which he witnessed at Rawalpindi. [3] Tamas portrays the horrors of senseless communal politics of violence and hatred; and the tragic aftermath – death, destruction, forced migration and the partition of a country.
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) [1] was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, [2] playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.
A large number of long and short poems have incorrectly been attributed to Kalidasa, for instance the Bhramarastaka, the Ghatakarpara, the Mangalastaka, the Nalodaya (a work by Ravideva), the Puspabanavilasa, which is sometimes also ascribed to Vararuci or Ravideva, the Raksasakavya, the Rtusamhara, the Sarasvatistotra, the Srngararasastaka ...
Nirmala [a] is a Hindi novel written by Indian writer Munshi Premchand.The melodramatic novel is centered on Nirmala, a young girl who was forced to marry a widower of her father's age.
Bezbaroa was the pioneer short story writer in Assam. [1] His short stories covered the different features from the Assamese society but with humorous sentiment. Rasaraj Bezbaroa was earmarked as a patriotic playwright while he composed three historical plays, namely- Chakradhaj Singha, Joymoti Konwori and Belimaar.
Meera, better known as Mirabai, [2] and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition.
With Sanskrit commentary by Pandit Bhatji Shastri Ghate of Nagpur and a close English translation by Vinayak Sadashiv Patvardhan. The Nyaya Sudha Press, Nagpur 1895 ; Rama's later history or Uttara-Ram-Charita of Bhavabhuti. Critically edited with notes and an English transltation by Shripad Krishna Belvalkar. Harvard University Press 1915
Srikanta, also spelled Srikanto, is a Bengali novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.Published in four parts between 1917 and 1933, [1] It has been described as Sarat Chandra's 'masterpiece'.