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  2. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Hindi literature ( Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, romanized : hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages. Hindi literature is composed in three broad ...

  3. Indian prison literature - Wikipedia

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    Indian prison literature is the prison literature mainly written by Indians who were incarcerated in the Indian subcontinent.It provides a unique entry-point into the nature of punishments, and crime, and holds a mirror to the conditions of prisoners, reflecting on the intricacies of the functioning of jails and prison houses, features of law and legal systems in a particular time and place.

  4. Bhagat Singh - Wikipedia

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    Escape from Lahore Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, both carrying loaded revolvers, left the house early the next day. [33] Dressed in western attire (Bhagat Singh cut his hair, shaved his beard and wore a hat over cropped hair), and carrying Devi's sleeping child, Singh and Devi passed as a young couple, while Rajguru carried their luggage as their ...

  5. Prison escape - Wikipedia

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    Prison escape. A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers. Escaping from prison is also a criminal ...

  6. The Shawshank Redemption - Wikipedia

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    The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins ), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover ...

  7. Prison literature - Wikipedia

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    Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply coincidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction.

  8. Amarkant - Wikipedia

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    Amarkant (1925 – 17 February 2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi literature. His novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007, [1] and Vyas Samman in year 2009. [2] He was awarded Jnanpith Award for the year 2009. [3] [4] Amarkant is considered one of the prominent writers of the story writing tradition of Premchand ...

  9. Escapist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Literature. Escapist fiction is fiction that provides escapism by immersing readers in a "new world" created by the author. [1] This "new world" aims to compensate for the arbitrariness and the unpredictability of the real one. [1] Typically, an author of escapist fiction offers structure, rationality and resolution to real world problems ...