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The tone of the book is comic. It would be good if people did not take offence at it and thereby reveal their inadequacy as readers. - Nirala
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', the first modern Hindi poet of India, is all of sixteen and not conversant with the Khari Boli Hindi of the litterateurs yet when his father gets him married and sends him off to his in-laws' in Dalmau to fetch his bride. There he meets a strange man called Kulli Bhaat who claims descent from a family of bards and, despite his mother-in-law's reservations about Kulli's sexuality, Nirala finds himself drawn to Kulli. Then an influenza epidemic breaks out, claiming numerous lives, and Nirala's bereavement leaves him without mooring. Adrift on the boat of time, he seeks employment in various places but finds himself unable to stay away from Dalmau for long. Kulli, in the meanwhile, has taken a Muslim wife and become a champion of the untouchables.
Set in pre-Independence India, A Life Misspent is as much the account of an unlikely friendship as it is a coming-of-age story. A memoir on the making of one of the greatest poets of all time.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789352774968 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers India |
Publication date: | 03/05/2018 |
Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 128 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' is associated with the Chhayavaad movement in Hindi poetry in the first half of the twentieth-century. He was a prolific poet and essayist, who altered the landscape of Hindi letters by the range and intensity of his art. Satti Khanna is Associate Professor at Duke University, where he teaches Indian Cinema and Modern Hindi Literature.
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