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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.
Tamas (lit. Darkness) is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni (1974), which won the author the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975.
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.
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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.
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...
Bhīshma Sāhanī. Penguin Books India, 2001 - Fiction - 352 pages. Translated by the author 'Tamasdrove the point home that ordinary people want to live in peace'The Guardian Set in a small-town...
Aug 16, 2019 · A timeless classic about the Partition of India, Tamas is also a chilling reminder of the consequences of religious intolerance and communal prejudice. Daisy Rockwell’s fresh and definitive translation expertly renders the power and passion of this iconic and award-winning novel for a new generation of listeners.
