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The original English edition of the book consisted of two volumes, the first of which covered parts 1-3, while the second contained parts 4-5. The original Gujarati version was published as the Satya Na Prayogo (lit. Experiments with Truth), bearing the subtitle, Atmakatha (lit. The Story of a Soul). [7]
[1] [2] [3] This literary genre encompasses various Indian languages such as Marathi, Bangla, Hindi, [4] Kannada, Punjabi, [5] Sindhi, Odia and Tamil and includes narrative-styles like poems, short stories, and autobiographies. The movement started gaining influence during the mid-twentieth-century in independent India and has since spread ...
Pitcheswara Rao's wife, Chouda Rani, was the youngest daughter of Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, a well known Telugu poet and social reformer. [3] Chouda Rani herself was a short story writer, and novelist. She established an exclusive Telugu bookstore in Madras which ran successfully for several years.
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1907 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1] She has also been addressed as the modern Meera. [2]
Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1889 [1] – 15 November 1937) [3] was a prominent figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. Prasad was his pen name. [4] He was also known as Chhayavadi kavi. [5]
[1] [3] Written during the long illness of his wife, Kamala, Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage. [ 6 ] In the book, he describes nationalism as "essentially an anti-feeling, and it feeds and fattens on hatred against other national groups, and especially against the foreign rulers of a subject country". [ 7 ]
Besides Hindi, he was master of many languages including Sanskrit, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati as well as Pali, Prakrit, and Apabhramsa. He had a great knowledge of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit. As a student of Sanskrit, steeped in the Sastras, he gave a new evaluation to Sahitya-sastra and he is be considered as a great commentator on the textual ...
Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (15 May 1864 – 21 December 1938) was an Indian Hindi writer and editor. Adhunikkaal, or the Modern period of the Hindi literature, is divided into four phases, and he represents the second phase, known as the Dwivedi Yug (1893–1918) after him, which was preceded by the Bharatendu Yug (1868–1893), followed by the Chhayavad Yug (1918–1937) and the Contemporary ...