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Sunday, July 27, 2003
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Commoners’
Chronicler
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Bhisham Sahni (1915-2003)
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BHISHAM
SAHNI belonged to the line of writers who identified themselves
with their soil. The dust and the heat of everyday life with its
emotions and passions, wins and losses were all part of his body
of work. He was one with the milieu yet enough removed from it to
see clearly and delineate sharply the nuances of a common life. He
was, therefore, one of the rarest who could write with restrained
compassion about people and their circumstances, writes
Ashwini
Bhatnagar
“A great
writer but a greater human being”
Gurdial Singh
AS
Krishna Sobti put it very aptly, Bhisham Sahni deserves the
epithet of Bhisham pitamah of Hindi literature. Bhisham
Sahni’s friendship was a boon for me, something I will always
treasure. |
“He
was a writer in Premchand’s tradition”
Namavar Singh
BHISHAM
SAHNI was the most important and eminent writer in the tradition
of Premchand. Social realism and the end goal of an independent,
anti-imperialist order had fired the latter’s imagination, as it
did Bhisham Sahni after Premchand’s death in 1936.
In
Bhisham Sahni’s own words...
The
myth behind gemstones
Tina Solanki
NOWHERE in the world are
gemstones coveted so intensely as in India. Their value goes far beyond
basic considerations of price and aesthetics. Even purity, clarity,
rarity and flawlessness recede in importance if a stone holds promise of
changing the fortunes of its wearer.
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