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The British Partition of Indian had countless disastrous consequences, many of which are rendered in heartbreaking fashion in Bhisham Sahni’s novel, Tamas. Sahni lived through the 1947 riots depicted in the book. In hindsight, Partition was enforced in a thoughtless, naïve fashion.
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.
Apr 9, 2022 · Tamas By Sahni Bhisham. Topics English Literature Collection opensource. Tamas- By Sahni Bhisham Addeddate 2022-04-09 04:12:47 Identifier tamas-by-sahni-bhisham Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s24jv9kxjgq Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_autonomous true Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 ...
Aug 17, 2017 · ISBN: 9788184757316. Length : 360 Pages. MRP : ₹399.00. Tamas. Bhisham Sahni. ‘Tamas, in either Rockwell’s translation or the original Hindi, remains an essential text for the times’. Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard.
Bhisham Sahni's Tamas (meaning 'darkness') opens with Nathu, a lower-class tanner, trying his best to kill a pig asked for by his upper-caste boss. Little does he know that this very pig will be used to incite a riot and kill hundreds of people.
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- Bhishm Sahni
Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003) was an iconic writer who transformed the landscape of Hindi literature. His oeuvre encompassed novels, plays, short stories and essays. Tamas, his best known novel,...
BHISHAM SAHNI (1915-2003) was an iconic writer who transformed the landscape of Hindi literature. Sahni was fluent in several languages-Punjabi, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and English-and his...
Her translation of Bhisham Sahni's iconic Partition novel Tamas is regarded as the definitive English rendition of that work.
- Bhisham Sahni
Character Analysis. Nathu serves as Tamas ’s failing conscience. He accepts the job of killing a pig, thinking that its corpse will be used for medical purposes. When the pig is thrown onto the steps of a Mosque instead, threatening to start a series of riots, Nathu blames himself.
