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Sabda aura rekhaem
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Srjana ke setu
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Svami Sraddhananda Sarasvati (Bharatiya sahitya ke nirmata)
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- Legal name: Vishnu Prabhakar
- Birthdate: June 21, 1912
- Birthplace: Mujaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Nationality: Indian
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Prabhakar
- Genres: fiction, novels, non-fiction, essays
- Date of death: April 11, 2009 (aged 96)
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Vishnu Prabhakar (विष्णु प्रभाकर) ) was a Hindi writer. He had several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit. Prabhakar's works have elements of patriotism, nationalism and messages of social upliftment.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 for his novel Ardhanarishwar, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award in 1995 and the Padma Bhushan (the third highest civilian honor of India) by the Government of India in 2004.
Although mainly a story writer, Vishnu Prabhakar has written in all the genres of literature with the only exception of poetry. He did not let himself limit to any special school of thought and it is reflected in his vast variety of works. He was initially influenced by Munshi Premchand but later started following Sharatchandra. His works are said to be a mirror of modern Indian society.
Prabhakar's works concentrate on the problems of today's Indian society. In his drama, Tootate Parivesh, he writes about a modern family in which gaps between younger and older generation are increasing. His novel Koi To tells how corrupt politics has become in modern times.
Prabhakar was influenced by the principals of non-violence of Mahatma Gandhi. This can be seen in his writing very often. In some of his works, oppressed female characters talk like philosophers and even dacoits who usually are expected to have negative roles are full of humanitarian values. This is the reason why some critics labeled him as a Gandhian ideologist.
Prabhakar was also affected by foreign authors. He had studied Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, O'Henry and O'Neil in-depth. In an interview, he said that Tolstoy's War and Peace had influenced him very much.
Prabhakar was very fond of traveling. He traveled for fourteen years continuously to collect material for his book - Aawara Masiha which is a biography of famous Bangla author, Sharatchandra. For this he had to visit all the places linked to Sharatchandra, even to Myanmar(Burma). His love of travels also resulted in many travelogues. His Awara Masiha, which is a biography of the eminent Bengali novelist Sharatchandra Chatterjee is considered one of the three best Hindi biographies written so far.
After Indian Independence he worked as a drama director, from September 1955 to March 1957, in Akashvani, All India Radio, New Delhi. He made news when in 2005 he threatened to return his Padma Bhushan award after he allegedly had to face misconduct at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Vishnu Prabhakar died at the age of 96, on the 11th April, 2009 after a brief illness in New Delhi. He was suffering from a heart problem and infection of the urinary tract. His wife, Sushila Prabhakar, had died in 1980. Prabhakar is survived by two sons and two daughters. His son Atul Prabhakar decided to donate his body to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as his father's last wishes.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 for his novel Ardhanarishwar, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award in 1995 and the Padma Bhushan (the third highest civilian honor of India) by the Government of India in 2004.
Although mainly a story writer, Vishnu Prabhakar has written in all the genres of literature with the only exception of poetry. He did not let himself limit to any special school of thought and it is reflected in his vast variety of works. He was initially influenced by Munshi Premchand but later started following Sharatchandra. His works are said to be a mirror of modern Indian society.
Prabhakar's works concentrate on the problems of today's Indian society. In his drama, Tootate Parivesh, he writes about a modern family in which gaps between younger and older generation are increasing. His novel Koi To tells how corrupt politics has become in modern times.
Prabhakar was influenced by the principals of non-violence of Mahatma Gandhi. This can be seen in his writing very often. In some of his works, oppressed female characters talk like philosophers and even dacoits who usually are expected to have negative roles are full of humanitarian values. This is the reason why some critics labeled him as a Gandhian ideologist.
Prabhakar was also affected by foreign authors. He had studied Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, O'Henry and O'Neil in-depth. In an interview, he said that Tolstoy's War and Peace had influenced him very much.
Prabhakar was very fond of traveling. He traveled for fourteen years continuously to collect material for his book - Aawara Masiha which is a biography of famous Bangla author, Sharatchandra. For this he had to visit all the places linked to Sharatchandra, even to Myanmar(Burma). His love of travels also resulted in many travelogues. His Awara Masiha, which is a biography of the eminent Bengali novelist Sharatchandra Chatterjee is considered one of the three best Hindi biographies written so far.
After Indian Independence he worked as a drama director, from September 1955 to March 1957, in Akashvani, All India Radio, New Delhi. He made news when in 2005 he threatened to return his Padma Bhushan award after he allegedly had to face misconduct at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Vishnu Prabhakar died at the age of 96, on the 11th April, 2009 after a brief illness in New Delhi. He was suffering from a heart problem and infection of the urinary tract. His wife, Sushila Prabhakar, had died in 1980. Prabhakar is survived by two sons and two daughters. His son Atul Prabhakar decided to donate his body to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as his father's last wishes.
