Manoj Das (A Reader) - Hardcover

P. Raja

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 812604246X ISBN 13: 9788126042463

Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, 2014

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Language: English
Pages: 804

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MANOJ DAS-A Reader This anthology of short stories, essays, vignettes from columns in newspapers and selections from the novels of Manoj Das, is a significant projection of the creativity of one of contemporary India's foremost writers.

Discerning critics like Dr K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar and Prof. H. P. Shukla have hailed his fiction as the most authentic representation of India's psyche. While we find vibrant glimpses of the subcontinent in transition in his short stories and novels, we also feel in them the elements and inspirations that go to render a work timeless and a classic creation.

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Born in 1934 in a small village in the eastern coast of Orissa, Manoj Das grew up in a uniquely charming environment marked by palm-grove-studded green meadows with lotus-filled lakes between his house and the ocean. At the same time, he had the harrowing experience as a small boy of having to witness his region struck by a terrible cyclone and the consequent famine and his affluent house being plundered by gangs of merciless dacoits not once but twice.

Manoj Das grew up to be a youth leader with radical views, suffering a term behind bars and taking a leading role in the Afro-Asian Students' Conference at Bandung in 1956. But all through this tumultuous phase of his life, he continued his creative writing and his quest for the meaning of life.

The numerous accolades he has received include the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Saraswati Samman, the Padma Award and D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) from five universities so far. He has been chosen as the Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi, an honour 'reserved for immortals in literature'. Manoj Das is attached to Sri Aurobindo Intern

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