1. Bhisham Sahni was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel Tamas and the television screenplay adaptation of the same name, a powerful and passionate account of the partition of India.
19 Facts About Bhisham Sahni
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Bhisham Sahni was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002.
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Bhisham Sahni was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni.
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Bhisham Sahni was born on 8 August 1915 in Rawalpindi, in undivided Punjab.
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Bhisham Sahni earned a master's degree in English literature from Government College in Lahore, and a Ph.
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In 1948 Bhisham Sahni started working with the Indian People's Theatre Association, an organization with which his brother, Balraj Sahni was already closely associated.
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Bhisham Sahni worked both as an actor and a director.
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On his return to India, Bhisham Sahni resumed teaching at Delhi College, and edited the reputed literary magazine Nai Kahaniyan from 1965 to 1967.
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Bhisham Sahni was associated with several literary and cultural organizations.
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Bhisham Sahni was General Secretary of the All India Progressive Writers Association and Acting General Secretary of the Afro-Asian Writer' Association and was associated with the editing of their journal Lotus.
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Bhisham Sahni 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.
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Bhisham Sahni's epic work Tamas is a novel based on the riots of 1947 partition of India which he witnessed at Rawalpindi.
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Bhisham Sahni wrote his autobiography Aaj Ke Ateet and the biography of his brother Balraj Sahni, Balraj My Brother.
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Bhisham Sahni was one of the most prolific writers of Hindi literature.
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Bhisham Sahni is able to express the terrifying tragedy of Partition with an extraordinary compassion in his stories.
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That Bhisham Sahni 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.
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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.
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Bhisham Sahni begins at the beginning and ends very near the end.
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The early part, where Bhisham Sahni 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.