Send us a textThis week I bring you the work of another leading storyteller from the Progressive Writers Movement: Krishan Chander, a familiar name to Urdu and Hindi readers. He was born in 1914 in Bharatpur in Rajasthan, where his father practiced medicine. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the F.C. College in Lahore, a reputable institution of higher learning before the partition. Krishan Chander was a prolific writer – he wrote 50 novels and 34 collections of short stories, and his prose was always lyrical, grabbing the reader’s attention, at a deeper level. Besides being a literary icon, Krishan Chander spent several years writing dialogues or screenplays in the Bollywood film industry. He died due to a massive heart attack while he was starting to write a short story in 1977.

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