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Life. Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel was born on 29 May 1926 in Baroda (now Vadodara, Gujarat) to Gordhanbhai Patel, a journalist with the Bombay Chronicle, and Gangaben Patel, a political activist and member of the All India Congress Committee. Her family belongs to Dharmaj village near Anand. She grew up and lived in Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai.
Poovan Pazham. " Poovan Pazham " ( Malayalam: പൂവൻപഴം; English: Poovan Banana) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and published in 1948 in the collection Viddikalude Swargam (Fool's Paradise). It is one of the most popular of Basheer's stories. [1] [2] [3] It was adapted into a telefilm of the same name by P ...
Spouse. Kashiben. Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892–1965), better known by his pen name Dhumaketu, was an Indian Gujarati-language writer, [1] who is considered one of the pioneers of the Gujarati short story. He published twenty-four collections of short stories, as well as thirty-two novels on social and historical subjects, and plays ...
Usha Priyamvada ( Hindi: उषा प्रियंवदा) is the nom-de-plume of Usha Nilsson (née Usha Saksena; born 1930) is an Indian-born American emerita professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a novelist and short-story writer in Hindi and a translator from Hindi to English. She was a winner of the ...
Waryam Singh Sandhu (born 10 September 1945) is an Indian author of short stories. In 2000, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his short story collection Chauthi koot . [1] Although he writes in Punjabi , [2] his works have been translated into Hindi , Bengali , Urdu and English .
Jahnavi Barua is an Indian author from Assam. She is the author of 'Next Door', a critically acclaimed collection of short stories set in Assam with insurgency as the background. Barua lives in Bangalore, and obtained her MBBS at Gauhati Medical College but does not practice medicine. She studied creative writing in the United Kingdom.
T. List of works by Rabindranath Tagore. The Train Has Reached Amritsar.
Plot. "Girls" is told from the viewpoint of an eight-year-old girl, and highlights how Indian society takes women for granted and conditions them to accept a secondary role in the family. It also shows that many a times, women themselves are the ones who consider women inferior. In the story, the narrator's father has been shown as a kind man.