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Mannu Bhandari (3 April 1931 – 15 November 2021) was an Indian author, screenplay writer, teacher, and playwright. Primarily known for her two Hindi novels, Aap Ka Bunty ( Your Bunty) and Mahabhoj ( Feast ), Bhandari also wrote over 150 short stories, several other novels, screenplays for television and film, and adaptations for theater.
Ruskin Bond. Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is one of the fellows of the sahitya akademi and a renown Indian Author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. [1]
193. ISBN. 9780670804528. Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan, set in and around the fictitious town of Malgudi in South India. The stories range from the humorous to the serious and all are filled with Narayan's acute observations of human nature. The concluding story, Under the Banyan Tree ...
Story. "Idgah" tells the story of a four-year-old orphan, named Hamid who lives with his grandmother Amina. Hamid, the protagonist of the story, has recently lost his parents; however, his grandmother tells him that his father has left for the milk, and that his mother has gone to Allah to fetch lovely gifts for him.
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.
Karna ( Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: Karṇa ), also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, [2] is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. [3] [4] He is the son of the sun god Surya and princess Kunti (mother of the Pandavas ), and thus a demigod of royal birth. Kunti was granted the boon to bear a child with desired ...
Ravana ( Sanskrit: रावण, IAST: Rāvaṇa, pronounced [ˈraːʋɐɳɐ]) was a ancient mythological king [1] of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana. [2] [3] In the Ramayana, Ravana is described as the eldest son of sage Vishrava and Kaikasi.
Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu' [1] (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post- Premchand era. He is the author of Maila Anchal, which after Premchand 's Godaan, is regarded as the most significant Hindi novel. [2] Phanishwar Nath (Mandal) Renu was born on 4 March ...