#mohan rakesh

[dhrupad]

“…Sucha Singh, tomorrow is Gurpurb. Tomorrow I’ll bring you kadha prasad (halwa)…”

“Yes, yes…”

The bus left. Balo was engulfed in the dust from its wheels. When the dust cleared, she wiped her eyes with the edge of her scarf and looked on at the red light of the bus until it disappeared from her sight.

[by Mohan Rakesh]

उसकी रोटी Uski Roti (1969)

[vintageindianclothing]

Taking the support of history or historical personalities does not make literature history. History compiles and catalogues facts in a time bound manner. This has never been the purpose of literature. To compensate for the vacant chambers of history is also not the domain of literature. Literature is not bound by the rigid time of history, it expands historical time; it does not separate one age from the other, it brings together many ages.  In this manner the ‘present’ and ‘past’ of history do not remain ‘present’ and ‘past’, they become moments in a absolute time that come together in an integral and undivided manner when seen as a symbol of the course of life. So history in literature does not present itself as true incidents, instead it presents itself as the imagination that brings together these incidents that in turn creates a new and different history. This construction is not history as conventionally understood. Searching for that history you need to go to the right history books and not literature.

Mohan Rakesh  (8 January 1925-3 December 1972).

Translation by me from the preface to Lehron ke Rajhans (Waves of the Royal Swans*).

*The royal swans are the protagonists of the story, Nand and Sundari. The waves the circumstances they find themselves in.

Note on the costumes of Ashadh Ka Ek Din here.

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Mohan Rakesh was one of the Pioneers of the Nai Kahani literary movement of the Hindi literature in the 1950s. He wrote the first modern Hindi play, Ashadh Ka Ek Din, which won a competition at Sangeet Natak Akademi. He made significant contributions to the novel, the short story, travelogue, criticism, memoir and drama

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Birth Annivesary Of Hindi Fiction Writer Play Writer Mohan Rakesh Ashadh Ka Ek Din Best Play Of Hindi Shows Feminism And Contrast Of Man Women Modern Relationship Am | मोहन राकेश: आधुनिक स्त्री-पुरुष का द्वंद्व दिखाने वाले साहित्यकार

Birth Annivesary Of Hindi Fiction Writer Play Writer Mohan Rakesh Ashadh Ka Ek Din Best Play Of Hindi Shows Feminism And Contrast Of Man Women Modern Relationship Am | मोहन राकेश: आधुनिक स्त्री-पुरुष का द्वंद्व दिखाने वाले साहित्यकार

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आजादी के बाद मध्यवर्गीय और शहरी जीवन के अंतर्द्वंद्वों को केंद्र में रखकर कहानियां लिखे जाने की परंपरा की शुरुआत हुई. इसे हिंदी साहित्य के इतिहास में ‘नई कहानी’ आंदोलन के नाम से जाना जाता है. मोहन राकेश नई कहानी दौर के प्रमुख कहानीकार माने जाते हैं. नई कहानी आंदोलन को समृद्ध करने…

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Uski Roti (1969) dir. Mani Kaul

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[niramish]

मैं नहीं जानता, आप क्या समझ रहे हैं, मैं कौन हूँ, और क्या आशा कर रहे हैं, मैं क्या कहने जा रहा हूँ

मोहन राकेश, “आधे अधूरे” की शुरूआत

[pyotra]

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