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    Bhisham Sahni was an influential Hindi writer, playwright, and actor from India. He was born in 1915 in Rawalpindi and witnessed the violence of the 1947 Partition of India, which greatly influenced his work. Sahni's best known work was his novel Tamas (Darkness), which provides a powerful account of the Partition. He wrote several other novels, short story collections, plays, and biographies in Hindi. Sahni received many literary honors over his career, including the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, India's highest literary award, in 2002.

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    Bhisham Sahni was an influential Hindi writer, playwright, and actor from India. He was born in 1915 in Rawalpindi and witnessed the violence of the 1947 Partition of India, which greatly influenced his work. Sahni's best known work was his novel Tamas (Darkness), which provides a powerful account of the Partition. He wrote several other novels, short story collections, plays, and biographies in Hindi. Sahni received many literary honors over his career, including the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, India's highest literary award, in 2002.

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    Bhisham Sahni was an influential Hindi writer, playwright, and actor from India. He was born in 1915 in Rawalpindi and witnessed the violence of the 1947 Partition of India, which greatly influenced his work. Sahni's best known work was his novel Tamas (Darkness), which provides a powerful account of the Partition. He wrote several other novels, short story collections, plays, and biographies in Hindi. Sahni received many literary honors over his career, including the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, India's highest literary award, in 2002.

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    Bhisham Sahni was a prominent Hindi writer and playwright known for his novel and screenplay Tamas about the Partition of India. He wrote extensively about common people and received many literary awards.

    Some of Bhisham Sahni's major literary works included his novel Tamas, short story collections, plays, and biographies of his brother Balraj Sahni.

    Bhisham Sahni was general secretary of the Progressive Writers Association and founder and chairman of SAHMAT, an organization promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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    Bhisham Sahni

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    August 8, 1915 Rawalpindi, British India July 11, 2003 (aged 87) Delhi, India Author, Playwright, Activist 19552003

    Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 11 July 2003) was a Hindi writer, playwright, and actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. He was the brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni.

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    1 Biography 2 Acting in films 3 Literary works o 3.1 Literary Style 4 Awards 5 References 6 External links

    [edit] Biography
    Bhisham Sahni was born on 8 August 1915 in Rawalpindi. He earned a master's degree in English at Government College in Lahore, and also attended Khalsa College, Amritsar. He joined the struggle for Indian independence, and was jailed for his participation in the Quit India Movement of 1942. Upon Partition, he and his Punjabi Hindu family were forced to move to Amritsar. In the late 1940s, he worked with his brother as a stage performer in Mumbai with the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). In 1950, he became a lecturer in English at The Delhi College. From 1957 to 1963, he lived in Moscow and worked as a translator from Russian to Hindi, during the period he translated twenty-five books from Russian into Hindi, including Tolstoy's Resurrection. In addition to those languages, Sahni was fluent in English, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Punjabi. He was general secretary of the Progressive Writers Association, and was the founder and chairman of 'SAHMAT', an organization promoting cross-cultural understanding, founded in memory of the murdered theatre artist and activist Safdar Hashmi.

    [edit] Acting in films


    Late in life, he appeared in several films, including Saeed Mirza's Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Tamas (1986), Kumar Shahani's Kasba (1991), Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993) and Aparna Sen's Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002).

    [edit] Literary works


    Bhisham Sahni's epic work Tamas (Darkness, 1974) is a novel based on the riots of the 1947-48 Partition of India which he witnessed at Rawalpindi.[1] Tamas portrays the terrorstricken Hindu exodus from Muslim majority areas, though the overall theme remained the human-story behind the entire carnage. It has been translated to English, and several Indian languages including Gujarati,Malayalam, Kashmiri, and Manipuri. Tamas won the 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award for literature, and was later made into a television film in 1987 by Govind Nihalani. Two of his masterpiece stories 'Chief ki davat' and 'Amritsar aa gaya hai' are also based on the Partition. Sahni's prolific career as a writer also included five other Hindi novels, over hundred short stories spread over nine collections of short stories, (including Bhagya Rekha (1953), Pahla patha (1956), Bhatakti rakha (1966), and Nischar (1983)); a collection of children's short stories 'Gulal ka khel'.

    Plays - Hanush (1977)-Staged by theatre director Rajindra Nath and Arvind Gaur(1993),Kabira khara bazar mein(1981)-Many Indian theatre directors like M.K. Raina & Arvind Gaur performed this play, Madhavi (1982)- first Staged by Theatre director Rajendra Nath .later USA trained actress Rashi Bunny perform Madhavi as Solo play,This solo won many Awards in International Theatre Festivals, Muavze (1993)First performerd by National School of Drama rep.with Bapi Bose.this is a very popular play among theatre groups. Almost every known group performed it. Autobiography and biography of his brother Balraj Sahni Bhisham Sahni also wrote his autobiography "Aaj ke Ateet" (Pasts of the Present), and the biography of his brother Balraj Sahni, "Balraj My Brother," (English).[2]

    [edit] Literary Style


    Bhisham Sahni was one of the most prolific writers of Hindi literature. His command over local dilects and to the common languages such as urdu and Punjabi has enabled him to attach his writing to the hearts and minds of common people. Most of his short stories, are the stories about the common people who are toiling under the brutal cogwheel of the Socio-Political-Economic bitterness. A reader can feel the emotional bond with the characters of his stories, and that makes him able to caricate the bitter hardship of his time.

    [edit] Awards
    During his lifetime, Bisham Sahni won several Awards including Shiromani Writers Award,1979, Uttar Pradesh Government Award for Tamas, 1975,Colour of Nation Award at International Theatre Festival,Russia for Play Madhavi by Rashi Bunny,2004, Madhya Pradesh Kala Sahitya Parishad Award, for his play 'Hanush', 1975 the Lotus Award from the Afro-Asian Writers' Association, 1981 and the Soviet Land Nehru Award, 1983, and finally the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, and India's highest literary award the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002.[3]

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