Rahi masoom raza biography of mahatma gandhi

In foreword Raza dedicates the novel to anti-emergency activists and say that freedom of speech is basic freedom. The novel shakes the conscience of every reader and by the time one ends the novel he is in tears. Another novel, named Topi Shukla also revolves around the acts and conducts of devilish politicians of India min character topi shukla being metaphor for Indian politician.

In his "Neem ka Ped" Raza tells the story of a "asami" i. The main protagonist is a landless labourer who is very faithful and obedient to his master and dreams only of making his only son an educated person. Fortunes dwindles in landlords home and he is sentenced to jail for murder of a upcoming leader of congress because of manipulations of his cousin who is also a landlord but nurses a grudge against the landlord.

Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Almost no other Hindi writer I can think of wrote about the Hindu-Muslim relationship, or about being a Muslim in India, with such profound understanding.

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His unchanging view was that religion should never be allowed to intrude into politics because Indian society was not the fiefdom of any religion. He was angry with the Congress party for its stand on the Shah Bano case in involving the rights of divorced Muslim womenor when it imposed the Emergency in he even wrote a novel about it—Katra Bi Arzoo.

In Ghazipur, the lives of Hindus and Muslims were inextricably entwined, and Raza was a product of that world and culture. When he wrote the dialogue for Mahabharat and was attacked by Hindu fundamentalists—how could a Muslim write the dialogue for a Hindu epic? Who would know the civilization and culture of India better than I?

As early ashe published an electrifying epic poem, Krantikatha, in which he depicted as a heroic, mass uprising against the British. Less than a decade later, he wrote Chhote Aadmi Ki Badi Kahani, on the war hero Abdul Hamid, who was given the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his bravery in the tank battle of Asal Uttar in Punjab Hamid is credited with having single-handedly destroyed seven Pakistani tanks.

The war with Pakistan had led to a disturbing spike in anti-Muslim sentiment. It fell to Raza to write the book—Abdul Hamid was from Ghazipur—which he did willingly, but he used the opportunity to address questions of nation, religion and patriotism. Even when writing about the darkest moments in his novels, Raza never loses his unsentimental wit and humour.

But it is in Aadha Gaon that we see him at his full power. Romani Duniya would publish romantic stories penned by various writers. We all knew that the writer writing his stories under the pen-name of Shahid Akhtar was none other than Dr. But even more than that, he was a nostalgic man. From a small village in Ghazipur to Mumbai, he had come a long way.

But wherever he lived he could never move away from his roots.

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I would find that very fascinating and at the same time, adorable. He would always say that he was a Ganga-Kiraane-Ka- Aadmi a man born at the coast of the river Ganga and that influence always dominated his literature. That flavor remained imprinted on whatever he wrote. All his poetry speaks of nostalgia. Rahi Sahab always had a bit of satire in his lyrics.

He had the knack of hitting the nail on the head where relationships and social dynamics were concerned.

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