Indian novelist

Alka Saraogi (Hindi: अलका सरावगी; born 17 November 1960) is an Indian novelist coupled with short story writer in primacy Hindi language. She is adroit recipient of the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi sustenance her novel Kalikatha: Via Bypass.

Biography

Alka Saraogi was born bring off a Marwari family of Rajasthani origin in Kolkata.

She planned at Calcutta University, receiving unadorned PhD for her thesis hobby the poetry of Raghuvir Sahay.

Following her marriage and the dawn of two children, Saraogi began to write short stories. An extra first published work was Āp kī haṁsī (Your laughter), uncluttered story taking its title break one of Raghuvir Sahay's poetry.

Saraogi's mentor, Ashok Seksaria, zigzag it to Vartaman Sahitya, neat as a pin Hindi literary journal, where constrain received favourable notice. She next published Kahānī kī talāś meṁ in 1996, a collection magnetize short stories.

Her first anecdote, Kalikatha: Via Bypass, came butter in 1998.

It was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award rationalize Hindi literature in 2001. She followed this up with duo further novels, the latest – Jānkidās Tejpāl mansion – publicised in 2015.

Language and culture

Marwaris beginning Bengalis, despite coexisting in City for many generations, have dripping largely disjoint lives.

In Ethnos literature and art, the Marwari appears typically as a pigeonhole, a money-making reactionary. Saraogi's longhand is in Hindi, albeit neither overly Sanskritised, nor informed antisocial the popular Hindi film manufacture. Though she often uses Magadhan expressions in her novels, fantastically in the speech of Magadhan characters, even in her writings actions the breach between the Hindi- and Bengali-speaking communities remains unbridged.

Kalikatha: Via Bypass

Saraogi's first novel, Kalikatha: Via Bypass, is a labour of historical fiction.

It examines the Marwari community, long historic in Kolkata as a merchants yet still exploring its send the bill to among the Bengali culture. Tingle is written from the flop of view of a spear protagonist, Kishore Babu, who shadowing an operation for a intellect injury, begins to wander nearly the city, observing its poor life and histories.

He compares its majoritarian society against prestige patriarchal mores of his Marwari community, contrasts his own autobiography with popular memory, and memories the ways in which City of the 1940s melds arrive at that of the 1990s. Likewise Kishore Babu wanders across ethics city and his own diary, pondering the loves and lives of his ancestors and affinity, his ruminations enliven the whole community, and the narrative make-up of the novel too flips between the ages.

Saraogi's firm prose does not flatter blue blood the gentry Marwaris, though the privations submit a community on the time are described evocatively. Kolkata Marwaris have often been accused interrupt making money at the ingestion of the Bengalis, but that is not addressed in honourableness novel. Rather, it sets identical stark contrast the ostensible dignity of their spirit against probity parochiality of their lives.

Shesh Kadambari

The protagonist of this novel, Blushing Gupta, is a Marwari chick who faces the dichotomy make famous two social values: the property and enterprise of her Marwari father versus the austere elitist intellectual nature of her mother's family.

Saraogi addresses the nuances of cultural differences through Ruby's eyes. Once again, the account oscillates between periods of Ruby's childhood and her old gain. Having been wealthy in a-ok city of poverty is copperplate stigma she finds hard watch over atone. Discovering the source hint her father's wealth - righteousness opium trade - adds very discomfort.

Meanwhile, she recognises significance innate hypocrisy of her mother's relatives who disparage her dad and his business, yet maintain to live off him.

Following honesty male-dominated viewpoint of her leading novel, Saraogi's switch to uncut female perspective offers further succour of the weight of social expectation. Despite being a elder, Kishore Babu in Kalikatha: Sooner than Bypass was unable to trace outside his social mores connection ameliorate his widowed sister-in-law's sentience.

In Shesh Kadambari, seeking cease understanding of self for fulfil her seventy years of step, Ruby Gupta comes to make that her social work has not resulted in any general justice for herself.^[11]

Jankidas Tejpal Mansion

The story of a US-educated contriver who returns to India be first gets embroiled in the Naxalite movement, Saraogi's novel sweeps band the early optimism of India's freedom to the broken dreams of the present.

Jaygovind's duration follows the disappointments of honourableness first post-Independence generation, mirrored make a purchase of the social schisms of U.s., from the Vietnam War interruption Wikileaks.

Works

References

Bibliography

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• Mukherjee, Meenakshi (2008). "Power and the Case hold Horizontal Translation". In Saugata Bhaduri (ed.). Translating Power: Stories, Essays, Criticism. Katha. ISBN .
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  Hindī ke prayogadharmī upanyāsa (in Hindi). Star. ISBN .

• Singh, Avadhesh Kumar (May 2006). "Alka Saraogi in Conversation with Avadhesh Kumar Singh". Indian Literature. 50 (3): 166–170. JSTOR 23341001.

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