Dr namvar singh biography of donald
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Namvar Singh: What Will Marx Think?
THE BIRTHDAY OF someone who has just turned 90 is usually a cause for celebration. A life well lived is its own reward, and one filled with achievements offers another reason for cheer. But in Delhi’s polarised politics— which gets worse in cultural matters—nothing is immune from political pot shots.
On 28 July, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in Delhi, an autonomous cultural institution, organised a celebration to mark the 90th birthday of Namvar Singh, perhaps the 20th century’s best known man of letters in Hindi. To celebrate the litterateur’s long journey were his colleagues and friends, including the poet Kedarnath Singh, writer Vishwanath Tripathi, literary critic Manager Pandey, and Namvar Singh’s younger brother, the novelist Kashinath Singh. Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma, too, were present.
But a row had broken out even before the plan to felicitate Namvar Singh took off. At issue
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Hindi writer and critic Namvar Singh dies in Delhi hospital, president Kovind, PM Modi pay tribute
The gods rites will be performed at 4 pm on Wednesday at the Lodhi Road crematorium, she added.
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Singh gave Hindi literary criticism a new direction with his books such as &#;Chhayavaad&#;, &#;Itihas Aur Alochana&#;, &#;Kahaani Nayi Kahaani&#;, &#;Kavita Ke Naye Pratimaan&#;, &#;Dusri Parampara Ki Khoj&#;
The author&#;s death, which marks the end of an era, led to scores of people sending in their condolences. President Ram Nath Kovind said Singh&#;s death was a huge loss to not only Hindi literature but also other languages in India.
&#;Deeply saddened bygd the död eller bortgång of the great critic, Namvar Singh, who established a new paradigm in Hindi literature and criticism&#; My condolences to the grieving family and the world of Hindi literature,&#; Kovind tweeted in Hindi.
Condoling his death, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described him as a towering figur
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1I should begin by stating that I have approached the theme of “short story as a humble form” not as a literary critic or an academic but as an insider, a fiction writer who has published a short story collection and several novellas. I also began a novel a few years ago, wrote its initial drafts, got its extracts published before it took the form of “creative non-fiction.” The short story is the form I have experimented with, the novel is the genre I have been trying to master.
2There are novelists and there are short story writers, respectively carrying a preference for the form they are writing in. And there is a publishing industry that is heavily skewed in favour of the novel.2 But there are also some writers who write in both those forms, often simultaneously. For such writers, the two genres are not exclusive; not bound in a hierarchy or an existential contest that the publishing industry attempts to propose, or the nomenclature “humble” seems to suggest. The