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Bhisham Sahni

January 12, 2023

Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998,[1] and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. He was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni.

Bhisham Sahni
Born(1915-08-08)8 August 1915
Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India
Died11 July 2003(2003-07-11) (aged 87)
Delhi, India
Occupation
  • Writer
  • playwright
  • actor
NationalityIndian
Period1955–2003
Political partyCommunist Party of India

Biography

Bhisham Sahni was born on 8 August 1915 in Rawalpindi, in undivided Punjab. He earned a master's degree in English literature from Government College in Lahore, and a Ph.D. from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1958.

He joined the struggle for Indian independence. At the time of Partition, he was an active member of the Indian National Congress and organized relief work for the refugees when riots broke out in Rawalpindi in March 1947. In 1948 Bhisham Sahni started working with the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), an organization with which his brother, Balraj Sahni was already closely associated. He worked both as an actor and a director. At a later stage, he directed a drama[2] ‘Bhoot Gari’. This was adapted for the stage by film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Khwaja Ahmed Abbas. As an actor, 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).

As a result of his association with IPTA, he left the Congress and joined the Communist Party of India. Thereafter, he left Bombay for Punjab where he worked briefly as a lecturer, first in a college at Ambala and then at Khalsa College, Amritsar. At this time he was involved in organizing the Punjab College Teachers’ Union and also continued with IPTA work. In 1952 he moved to Delhi and was appointed Lecturer in English at Delhi College (now Zakir Husain College), University of Delhi.

From 1956 to 1963 he worked as a translator at the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow, and translated some important works into Hindi, including Lev Tolstoy’s short stories and his novel Resurrection. On his return to India, Bhisham Sahni resumed teaching at Delhi College, and also edited the reputed literary magazine Nai Kahaniyan from 1965 to 1967. He retired from service in 1980. Sahni was fluent in Punjabi, English, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Hindi.

Bhisham Sahni was associated with several literary and cultural organizations. He was General Secretary of the All India Progressive Writers Association (1975–85) and Acting General Secretary of the Afro-Asian Writer’ Association and was also associated with the editing of their journal Lotus. He 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.

Literary works

Bhisham Sahni's epic work Tamas (Darkness, Ignorance 1974) is a novel based on the riots of 1947 Partition of India which he witnessed at Rawalpindi.[3] Tamas portrays the horrors of senseless communal politics of violence and hatred; and the tragic aftermath – death, destruction, forced migration and the partition of a country. It has been translated to English, French, German, Japanese and many Indian languages including Tamil,Gujarati, Malayalam, Kashmiri, Marathi 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, Pali and Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai, are also based on the Partition.

Sahni's prolific career as a writer also included six other Hindi novels: Jharokhe (1967), Kadian (1971), Basanti (1979), Mayyadas Ki Madi (1987), Kunto (1993) and Neeloo, Nilima, Nilofar (2000)., over hundred short stories spread over ten collections of short stories, (including Bhagya Rekha (1953), Pahla patha (1956), Bhatakti Raakh (1966), Patrian (1973), Wang Chu (1978), Shobha Yatra (1981), Nishachar (1983), Pali (1989), and Daayan (1996) ; five plays including Hanoosh, Kabira Khada Bazar Mein, Madhavi, Muavze, Alamgeer, a collection of children's short stories Gulal ka keel'. But his novel named Mayyadas Ki Mari (Mayyadas's Castle) was one of his finest literary creation, the backdrop of this narrative is historical and depicts the age when the Khalsa Raj was vanquished in Punjab and the British were taking over. This novel is a saga of changing social order and decadent set of values.[4] He wrote the screenplay for Kumar Shahani's film, Kasba (1991), which is based on Anton Chekhov's story,In the Gully. Although Sahni had been writing stories for a long time, he received recognition as a story writer only after the publication of his story ‘Chief Ki Daawat’(The Chief’s Party) in the Kahani magazine in 1956.[5]

Bhisham Sahni wrote his autobiography Aaj Ke Ateet (Today's Pasts, Penguin 2016) and the biography of his brother Balraj Sahni, Balraj My Brother (English).[6]

Plays

  • Hanoosh (1977), staged by theatre director Rajindra Nath and Arvind Gaur (1993). it was adapted into Kashmiri as "Waqtsaaz" by Manzoor Ahmad Mir and was performed by the Artists participating in month-long Educational Theatre workshop organized by National School of Drama, at Srinagar Kashmir under the Direction of Sh. M. K. Raina in the year 2004.
  • Kabira Khada Bazar Mein (1981): Many Indian theatre directors like M.K. Raina Arvind Gaur and Abhijeet Choudhary have performed this play.[7]
  • Madhavi (1982): First staged by theatre director Rajendra Nath. Later US-trained actress Rashi Bunny performed Madhavi as a solo play.[8][9] This solo won many awards in international theatre festivals
  • Muavze (1993): First performed by National School of Drama rep. with Bapi Bose. This is a very popular play among theatre groups Swatantra Theatre, Pune also performed various times.

Literary style

Bhisham Sahni was one of the most prolific writers of Hindi literature. Krishan Baldev Vaid said, "His voice, both as a writer and a man, was serene and pure and resonant with humane reassurances. His immense popularity was not a result of any pandering to vulgar tastes but a reward for his literary merits—his sharp wit, his gentle irony, his all-pervasive humor, his penetrating insight into character, his mastery as a raconteur, and his profound grasp of the yearnings of the human heart.[10]

Noted Writer, Nirmal Verma, stated, "If we see a long gallery of unmatched characters in his stories and novels, where each person is present with his class and family; pleasures and pains of his town and district; the whole world of perversions and contradictions; it is because the reservoir of his (Bhisham Sahni's) experience was vast and abundant. At the request of his father – would anyone believe? – he dabbled in business, in which he was a miserable failure. With his high-spirits and passion for life of the common people, he traveled through villages and towns of Punjab with the IPTA theatre group; then began to teach to earn a living; and then lived in the USSR for seven years as a Hindi translator. This sprawling reservoir of experience collected in the hustle-bustle of various occupations ultimately filtered down into his stories and novels, without which, as we realize today, the world of Hindi prose would have been deprived and desolate. The 'simplicity of his work comes from hard layers of experience, which distinguish and separate it from other works of 'simplified realism. ... "Bhisham Sahni is able to express the terrifying tragedy of Partition with an extraordinary compassion in his stories. Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai ('We have reached Amritsar') is one such exceptional work where Bhisham gets away from the external reality and points to the bloody fissures etched on people's psyche. This is possible only for a writer who, in the darkness of historic events has seen the sudden 'accidents' that happen inside human hearts from up close." ... "After reading his last collection of stories Daayan (Witch), I was amazed that even after so many years there seemed no repetition or staleness in his writing. Each of his stories seemed to bring something sudden from newer directions, which was as new for him as it was unexpected for us. That Bhisham never paused, never halted in such a long creative journey is a big achievement; but what is bigger perhaps is that his life nurtured his work and his work nurtured his life, both nurtured each other continuously.[11]

Kamleshwar, "Bhisham Sahni's name is etched so deeply into the twentieth century of Hindi literature that it cannot be erased. With Independence and till the 11th. July 2003, this name has been synonymous with Hindi story and playwriting. Bhisham Sahni had gained such an unmatched popularity that all kinds of readers awaited his new creations and each and every word of his was read. There was no need to ask a general reader if he had read this or that writing by Bhisham. It was possible to begin a sudden discussion on his stories or novels. Such a rare readerly privilege was either available to Premchand or, after Harishankar Parsai, to Bhisham Sahni. This too is rare that the fame he received from Hindi should, during his lifetime, become the fame for Hindi itself.[12]

Krishan Baldev Vaid. "Bhisham Sahni's last published book, an autobiography with the quiet title Aaj Ke Ateet (The Pasts of the Present), is a beautiful culmination of a lifetime of excellent writing. Apart from giving us an intimate account of some of the salient phases of his life, it epitomizes his literary qualities. It is full of fun and insights; it is variegated; it is fair; it is unsmug; it is absorbing; it is also his farewell to his family, his milieu, his readers, and his friends.

He begins at the beginning and ends very near the end. The book glows with the sense of ending without, however, any trace of morbidity or self-pity. The early part, where Bhisham tenderly evokes his earliest memories and records his childhood in an affectionate middle-class family in Rawalpindi, is for me the most moving part of this self-portrait. With characteristic elegance and an unfailing eye for significant detail, the elderly author looks back with nostalgic longing at the world of his childhood and achieves a small but brilliant portrait of the artist as a little child.[10]

Awards and honours

 
Sahni on a 2017 stamp of India

During his lifetime, Bhisham 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, Shalaka Samman, New Delhi 1999=2000, Maithlisharan Gupta Samman, Madhya Pradesh, 2000–2001, Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2001, Sir Syed National Award for best Hindi Fiction Writer 2002, and India's highest literary award the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002.[13]

On 31 May 2017, India Post released a commemorative postage stamp to honour Sahni.[14]

References

  1. ^ (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ^ Paul, Shyno Baby (11 July 2020). "This Bhisham 'Pitama of Indian Literature' held a mirror to society's ignorance". cafeandblog.com. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  3. ^ Tamas 22 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  5. ^ Kumar, Kuldeep (7 August 2015). "The shine beyond darkness". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  6. ^ Bhishma Sahni at U.S. Library of Congress. Loc.gov (8 August 1915). Retrieved on 2018-11-06.
  7. ^ "'Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein' Revived after 23 Years". Outlook India. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  8. ^ Mita Kapur. "Madhavi solo by Rashi Bunny: The story of every woman". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  9. ^ Drama Critics. . Anand Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
  10. ^ a b Trailings Of A Lonely Voice. Outlookindia.com (28 July 2003). Retrieved on 2018-11-06.
  11. ^ The Face's Memory, Memory's Face. Outlookindia.com. Translated from Outlook Saptahik, 28 July 2003
  12. ^ The Light Shall Shine On. Outlookindia.com. Translated from Outlook Saptahik, 28 July 2003
  13. ^ Sahitya Akademi Fellowships 30 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ Contact Support. Philamirror.info. Retrieved on 6 November 2018.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bhisham Sahni.
  • Sharma, Rajendra (19 July 2003). [Usurped!]. Frontline magazine. Archived from the [Usurped!] on 29 October 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2006.
  • Bhatnagar, Ashwini (27 July 2003). "Commoners' chronicler". The Tribune (Chandigarh). Retrieved 31 August 2006.
  • Watch Tamas online
  • Bhisham Sahni at IMDb
  • Govind Nihalani speaks of Bhisham Sahni and Tamas
  • Bhisham Sahni talking about his personal experience of Partition and the writing of his Partition novel 'Tamas'

January 12, 2023
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Bhisham Sahni 8 August 1915 11 July 2003 was an Indian writer playwright in Hindi and an actor most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas Darkness Ignorance a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998 1 and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002 He was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor Balraj Sahni Bhisham SahniBorn 1915 08 08 8 August 1915Rawalpindi Punjab British IndiaDied11 July 2003 2003 07 11 aged 87 Delhi IndiaOccupationWriterplaywrightactorNationalityIndianPeriod1955 2003Political partyCommunist Party of India Contents 1 Biography 2 Literary works 2 1 Plays 2 2 Literary style 3 Awards and honours 4 References 5 External linksBiography EditBhisham Sahni was born on 8 August 1915 in Rawalpindi in undivided Punjab He earned a master s degree in English literature from Government College in Lahore and a Ph D from Punjab University Chandigarh in 1958 He joined the struggle for Indian independence At the time of Partition he was an active member of the Indian National Congress and organized relief work for the refugees when riots broke out in Rawalpindi in March 1947 In 1948 Bhisham Sahni started working with the Indian People s Theatre Association IPTA an organization with which his brother Balraj Sahni was already closely associated He worked both as an actor and a director At a later stage he directed a drama 2 Bhoot Gari This was adapted for the stage by film director screenwriter novelist and journalist Khwaja Ahmed Abbas As an actor 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 As a result of his association with IPTA he left the Congress and joined the Communist Party of India Thereafter he left Bombay for Punjab where he worked briefly as a lecturer first in a college at Ambala and then at Khalsa College Amritsar At this time he was involved in organizing the Punjab College Teachers Union and also continued with IPTA work In 1952 he moved to Delhi and was appointed Lecturer in English at Delhi College now Zakir Husain College University of Delhi From 1956 to 1963 he worked as a translator at the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow and translated some important works into Hindi including Lev Tolstoy s short stories and his novel Resurrection On his return to India Bhisham Sahni resumed teaching at Delhi College and also edited the reputed literary magazine Nai Kahaniyan from 1965 to 1967 He retired from service in 1980 Sahni was fluent in Punjabi English Urdu Sanskrit and Hindi Bhisham Sahni was associated with several literary and cultural organizations He was General Secretary of the All India Progressive Writers Association 1975 85 and Acting General Secretary of the Afro Asian Writer Association and was also associated with the editing of their journal Lotus He 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 Literary works EditBhisham Sahni s epic work Tamas Darkness Ignorance 1974 is a novel based on the riots of 1947 Partition of India which he witnessed at Rawalpindi 3 Tamas portrays the horrors of senseless communal politics of violence and hatred and the tragic aftermath death destruction forced migration and the partition of a country It has been translated to English French German Japanese and many Indian languages including Tamil Gujarati Malayalam Kashmiri Marathi 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 Pali and Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai are also based on the Partition Sahni s prolific career as a writer also included six other Hindi novels Jharokhe 1967 Kadian 1971 Basanti 1979 Mayyadas Ki Madi 1987 Kunto 1993 and Neeloo Nilima Nilofar 2000 over hundred short stories spread over ten collections of short stories including Bhagya Rekha 1953 Pahla patha 1956 Bhatakti Raakh 1966 Patrian 1973 Wang Chu 1978 Shobha Yatra 1981 Nishachar 1983 Pali 1989 and Daayan 1996 five plays including Hanoosh Kabira Khada Bazar Mein Madhavi Muavze Alamgeer a collection of children s short stories Gulal ka keel But his novel named Mayyadas Ki Mari Mayyadas s Castle was one of his finest literary creation the backdrop of this narrative is historical and depicts the age when the Khalsa Raj was vanquished in Punjab and the British were taking over This novel is a saga of changing social order and decadent set of values 4 He wrote the screenplay for Kumar Shahani s film Kasba 1991 which is based on Anton Chekhov s story In the Gully Although Sahni had been writing stories for a long time he received recognition as a story writer only after the publication of his story Chief Ki Daawat The Chief s Party in the Kahani magazine in 1956 5 Bhisham Sahni wrote his autobiography Aaj Ke Ateet Today s Pasts Penguin 2016 and the biography of his brother Balraj Sahni Balraj My Brother English 6 Plays Edit Hanoosh 1977 staged by theatre director Rajindra Nath and Arvind Gaur 1993 it was adapted into Kashmiri as Waqtsaaz by Manzoor Ahmad Mir and was performed by the Artists participating in month long Educational Theatre workshop organized by National School of Drama at Srinagar Kashmir under the Direction of Sh M K Raina in the year 2004 Kabira Khada Bazar Mein 1981 Many Indian theatre directors like M K Raina Arvind Gaur and Abhijeet Choudhary have performed this play 7 Madhavi 1982 First staged by theatre director Rajendra Nath Later US trained actress Rashi Bunny performed Madhavi as a solo play 8 9 This solo won many awards in international theatre festivals Muavze 1993 First performed by National School of Drama rep with Bapi Bose This is a very popular play among theatre groups Swatantra Theatre Pune also performed various times Literary style Edit Bhisham Sahni was one of the most prolific writers of Hindi literature Krishan Baldev Vaid said His voice both as a writer and a man was serene and pure and resonant with humane reassurances His immense popularity was not a result of any pandering to vulgar tastes but a reward for his literary merits his sharp wit his gentle irony his all pervasive humor his penetrating insight into character his mastery as a raconteur and his profound grasp of the yearnings of the human heart 10 Noted Writer Nirmal Verma stated If we see a long gallery of unmatched characters in his stories and novels where each person is present with his class and family pleasures and pains of his town and district the whole world of perversions and contradictions it is because the reservoir of his Bhisham Sahni s experience was vast and abundant At the request of his father would anyone believe he dabbled in business in which he was a miserable failure With his high spirits and passion for life of the common people he traveled through villages and towns of Punjab with the IPTA theatre group then began to teach to earn a living and then lived in the USSR for seven years as a Hindi translator This sprawling reservoir of experience collected in the hustle bustle of various occupations ultimately filtered down into his stories and novels without which as we realize today the world of Hindi prose would have been deprived and desolate The simplicity of his work comes from hard layers of experience which distinguish and separate it from other works of simplified realism Bhisham Sahni is able to express the terrifying tragedy of Partition with an extraordinary compassion in his stories Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai We have reached Amritsar is one such exceptional work where Bhisham gets away from the external reality and points to the bloody fissures etched on people s psyche This is possible only for a writer who in the darkness of historic events has seen the sudden accidents that happen inside human hearts from up close After reading his last collection of stories Daayan Witch I was amazed that even after so many years there seemed no repetition or staleness in his writing Each of his stories seemed to bring something sudden from newer directions which was as new for him as it was unexpected for us That Bhisham never paused never halted in such a long creative journey is a big achievement but what is bigger perhaps is that his life nurtured his work and his work nurtured his life both nurtured each other continuously 11 Kamleshwar Bhisham Sahni s name is etched so deeply into the twentieth century of Hindi literature that it cannot be erased With Independence and till the 11th July 2003 this name has been synonymous with Hindi story and playwriting Bhisham Sahni had gained such an unmatched popularity that all kinds of readers awaited his new creations and each and every word of his was read There was no need to ask a general reader if he had read this or that writing by Bhisham It was possible to begin a sudden discussion on his stories or novels Such a rare readerly privilege was either available to Premchand or after Harishankar Parsai to Bhisham Sahni This too is rare that the fame he received from Hindi should during his lifetime become the fame for Hindi itself 12 Krishan Baldev Vaid Bhisham Sahni s last published book an autobiography with the quiet title Aaj Ke Ateet The Pasts of the Present is a beautiful culmination of a lifetime of excellent writing Apart from giving us an intimate account of some of the salient phases of his life it epitomizes his literary qualities It is full of fun and insights it is variegated it is fair it is unsmug it is absorbing it is also his farewell to his family his milieu his readers and his friends He begins at the beginning and ends very near the end The book glows with the sense of ending without however any trace of morbidity or self pity The early part where Bhisham tenderly evokes his earliest memories and records his childhood in an affectionate middle class family in Rawalpindi is for me the most moving part of this self portrait With characteristic elegance and an unfailing eye for significant detail the elderly author looks back with nostalgic longing at the world of his childhood and achieves a small but brilliant portrait of the artist as a little child 10 Awards and honours Edit Sahni on a 2017 stamp of India During his lifetime Bhisham 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 Shalaka Samman New Delhi 1999 2000 Maithlisharan Gupta Samman Madhya Pradesh 2000 2001 Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2001 Sir Syed National Award for best Hindi Fiction Writer 2002 and India s highest literary award the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002 13 On 31 May 2017 India Post released a commemorative postage stamp to honour Sahni 14 References Edit Padma Awards PDF Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India 2015 Archived from the original PDF on 15 October 2015 Retrieved 21 July 2015 Paul Shyno Baby 11 July 2020 This Bhisham Pitama of Indian Literature held a mirror to society s ignorance cafeandblog com Retrieved 19 July 2020 Tamas Archived 22 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine HOBBIES mystudyroom Archived from the original on 2 August 2014 Retrieved 9 August 2014 Kumar Kuldeep 7 August 2015 The shine beyond darkness The Hindu Retrieved 19 July 2020 Bhishma Sahni at U S Library of Congress Loc gov 8 August 1915 Retrieved on 2018 11 06 Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein Revived after 23 Years Outlook India Retrieved 2 December 2015 Mita Kapur Madhavi solo by Rashi Bunny The story of every woman Hindustan Times Retrieved 10 May 2010 Drama Critics Bhisham Sahni s Madhavi by Rashi Bunny at British Council Anand Foundation Archived from the original on 11 May 2008 Retrieved 23 December 2008 a b Trailings Of A Lonely Voice Outlookindia com 28 July 2003 Retrieved on 2018 11 06 The Face s Memory Memory s Face Outlookindia com Translated from Outlook Saptahik 28 July 2003 The Light Shall Shine On Outlookindia com Translated from Outlook Saptahik 28 July 2003 Sahitya Akademi Fellowships Archived 30 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine Contact Support Philamirror info Retrieved on 6 November 2018 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bhisham Sahni Sharma Rajendra 19 July 2003 A life of commitment Bhisham Sahni 1915 2003 Usurped Frontline magazine Archived from the original Usurped on 29 October 2006 Retrieved 22 August 2006 Bhatnagar Ashwini 27 July 2003 Commoners chronicler The Tribune Chandigarh Retrieved 31 August 2006 Watch Tamas online Bhisham Sahni at IMDb The Boss Came to Dinner at Foundation of SAARC writers Govind Nihalani speaks of Bhisham Sahni and Tamas Bhisham Sahni talking about his personal experience of Partition and the writing of his Partition novel Tamas Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bhisham Sahni amp oldid 1130574213, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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