Chander, unable to handle the fact that 'his' Sudha now belongs to another man, plunges into an affair with a lonely young woman Pammi, while Sudha, on her part, pines away for him. This painful separation changes their lives forever. But Chander is unable to express his love for Sudha and she ends up marrying another man. Set in Allahabad, it tells the deep but doomed love story of the idealistic university student Chander and the childish, impish Sudha, his professor's daughter. He wrote it when he was just 23 years old. This is Dharamvir Bharati's most popular novel and Hindi fiction's landmark bestseller. The 1950s were his most creative years when he wrote some of his most outstanding works. Born in Allahabad, he studied Hindi at Allahabad University and went on to teach there as well.ĭeeply influenced by western intellectual thought, from the works of Karl Marx to the writings of Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre, he also studied the great Indian texts such as the Mahabharata, works of philosophy and the poetry of luminaries like Kabir and Surdas. Novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, journalist, Dharamvir Bharati (1926-1997) was a colossus of the Hindi literary world.
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