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2. Tamas (film) - Wikipedia

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   Tamas (lit. Darkness) is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni (1974), which won the author the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975. Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the ...

3. Bhisham Sahni - Wikipedia

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   Bhisham Sahni. Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, [1] and Sahitya Akademi ...

4. Daisy Rockwell - Wikipedia

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   Daisy Rockwell (born 1969) [1] is an American Hindi and Urdu language translator and artist. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk 's Falling Walls, Bhisham Sahni 's Tamas, and Khadija Mastur 's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2021 translation of Geetanjali Shree 's Tomb of Sand was the ...

5. List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi - Wikipedia

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   Makhanlal Chaturvedi was the first winner of this award. Krishna Sobti was the first woman winner of this award. Daya Prakash Sinha is the recent winner of this award. Year. Author. Work. Type of Work. 1955. Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

6. Artistic depictions of the Partition of India - Wikipedia

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   Fiction Ordered by date of publication. Hyder, Qurratulain, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire) (1959). Translated into English by the author in 1998. Reprint 2019 by New Directions. "River of Fire tells a completist and syncretistic version of 2,500 years of history in modern-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—beginning with the Nanda Dynasty on the brink of defeat by the founder of the Mauryan ...

7. Tamas (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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   Tamas ( Sanskrit: तमस् tamas, lit. 'darkness') is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and sattva (purity, goodness). Tamas is the quality of inertia ...

8. Guṇa - Wikipedia

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   Guṇa ( Sanskrit: गुण) is a concept in Hinduism, which can be translated as "quality, peculiarity, attribute, property". [1] [2] The concept is originally notable as a feature of Samkhya philosophy. [3] The guṇas are now a key concept in nearly all schools of Hindu philosophy. [4] There are three guṇas ( triguṇa ), according to ...

9. Tanmatras - Wikipedia

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   Hindu philosophy. Tanmatras ( Sanskrit: तन्मात्र = tanmātra) are rudimentary, undifferentiated, subtle elements from which gross elements are produced. [1] There are five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell – and there are five tanmatras corresponding to those five sense perceptions and the five sense ...