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One of the most renowned Hindi poet,

modern writer, playwright and social
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 Padmashree

K  Valley Turmeric Best

Journalism Award
K  Best Playwright
Maharana Mewar Foundation
Award

K   Sangeet Natak Akademi

Rajendra Prasad Shikhar
Samman
Bharat Bharati Samman

K  Maharashtra Gaurav
Kaudiya Nyas
Vyasa Samman
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In the novels foreword,

Dharamvir Bharti has
written,
"While writing this
novel I experienced the
feeling one has during
depressing moments
when he prays
fervently, with full
faith.... It appears as if
the very same prayer
has been ingrained in
my heart and I am still
repeating it..."
  





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winning movie of the same name
in K  by Shyam Benegal.
If you are wondering what Suraj
Ka Satwan Ghoda means then
Bharati ji has described it in a very
beautiful manner.
As per him, despite of all the
darkness and sadness, there is
something that inspires to light up
the dark, lead to the good.
The truth, faith and bravery lead
the soul to the light in the same
way the seven horses lead the
chariot of the Sun.
  





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The chariot of the Sun has to move

forward, always. But it¶s destroyed
during its journey via the streets of our
dark, corrupt, low-value and immoral
lives.
Except for the seventh horse, all the six
horses have been severely injured.
The seventh horse is still brave,
determined, focused and is moving
ahead continuously.
The seventh horse is the future. Bharati
ji has co-related this seventh horse with
the children of his novel¶s characters.
He says these children, the new
generation will lead us to the light and
we must have faith in this seventh horse.
 
 




  
 

Andha Yug focuses on the last day

of the Mahabharata war. The
ramparts are in ruins, the city is
burning and Kurukshetra is
covered with corpses and vultures.
The few bewildered survivors of
the Kaurava clan are overcome by
grief and rage. Longing for one last
act of revenge, they refuse to
condemn Ashwatthama when he
releases the ultimate weapon, the
brahmastra, which threatens to
annihilate the world. Instead, they
blame Krishna for having caused
the war, and curse him.
 
 




  
 

Ô One of the most significant plays of post-Independence

India, Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug raises pertinent
moral issues in the context of Partition-related atrocities.
Ô The figure of Krishna is central to the narrative. He
represents the infinite variety of ways in which the good
manifests itself in the ordinary world. He is the man of
justice and truth.
Ô The Kauravas, however, are unable to imagine the truth
about Krishna.
Ô This failure of imagination becomes the cause of their final
undoing.
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In K  he was appointed as Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly

magazine ð

 brought out by the Times of India Group, and
moved to Bombay.
He remained the Editor of Dharmayug till K 
. During this long phase
the magazine became the most popular Hindi weekly of the country and
established new heights in Hindi Journalism.
As a field reporter, Dr. Bharati personally covered the Indo-Pak war that
resulted in the liberation of Bangladesh.
  



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Ô Mr. Kumar Ketkar is currently the Chief Editor, Loksatta.

Ô In the past, he has been the Editor-In-Chief, Lokmat and
has served as the Chief Editor of the Maharashtra Times of
The Times of India Group for over
years (K -K .
Ô He has also contributed to the Indian and Financial
Express and the Times.
Ô (K -  He was a Resident Editor for the Daily
Observer, of the Ambani Group, Reliance.
Ô (K
-K  A Staff Reporter and Special Correspondent
for The Economic Times and The Times of India Group.
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Ô Changing USSR Glasnost and Perestroika policies of Mikhail
Gorbachev,
Ô Disintegration of Soviet Union (K K
Ô Parliamentary election in United Kingdom (K 
and K  ,
Ô Integration of two Germanys (K K ,
Ô Six US presidential elections- K , K , K , , 
and ,
Ô Hongkong¶s integration with China (K
,
Ô Israel's fiftieth anniversary events (K  ,
Ô Transformation and opening of China¶s economy and the New
Vietnam and its liberal policies.
 He has the following awards to his
credit
Ô Padmashree Government of India's Republic Day award in
K
Ô CD Deshmukh award for excellent writing in economics
Ô Acharya Atre award for bold journalism
Ô Giants International award for covering international events
Ô Rajiv Gandhi Award for excellence in Journalism
Ô Kumar Ketkar has been nominated by the Prime Minister
on the National Integration Council.
Ô He is also on the LIC Monitoring Committee Visiting
faculty in the Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey,
USA and a visiting lecturer in Mumbai and Pune University
Media Departments.
  



He has authored seven Marathi books, on current

politics, literature, and science and is a frequent
commentator on current issues on various TV channels.
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other awards ±

(K K Foundation of
Freedom of Information
Award.
(K  National Citizen¶s
award
(K
Ramakrishna Jay
Dayal award
(K  Durga Prasad
Chaudhary award
(K  B D Goenka
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Ô He joined the newspaper Malyalam Manorama as Managing Editor in

K
 and went on to become Editor in chief in K
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Ô Mathew has served as chairman of Press Trust of India
Ô President of the Indian Newspaper Society
Ô Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ô Vice-president of Indian Language Newspaper Association
Ô Founder trustee and chairman of Press Institute of India as well as the
Research Institute for Newspaper Development.
Ô He was a member of the Press Council of India, wage boards for
working journalists and non-journalists and Central Press Advisory
Committee.
Ô He was also on the executive committee of the Federation of
International Newspaper Publishers and Editors, France.
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Ô Mathew launched many publications such as -

Ô The women¶s magazine ³Vanitha´ in Malayalam
and Hindi
Ô The English magazine ³The Week´
Ô The farmer¶s magazine ³Karshakasree´
Ô Children¶s magazines ³Balarama´, ³Amar Chitra
Katha´ and ³Kalikudukka´ in Malayalam and
³Magic Pot´ in English
Ô Encyclopedic Manorama Yearbook in Malayalam,
English, Hindi, Tamil and Bengali.
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The autobiography is dedicated to K. M Mathew's

mother, whose ornaments were made into rings and
given to her nine children. Mathew, being her
eighth child, got the eighth ring, which turned out
to be the title of the book on his life
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Indian figure.
He was a prominent Marathi writer, a poet, an educationist, a
newspaper founder±editor (Maratha marathi daily.
A political leader
A movie producer±director±script writer and above all, a
noted orator.
 



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In the novel Shyam tells
the story of his mother, her
teachings and the impact she
had on his life. Over forty-two
nights the words of Shyam
sketch in front of us the
childhood of Sane Guruji, the
hardships faced by his mother
and her efforts to make him a
man of character. The style is
fluid and a touch of poetic
luster brings out the emotions
with amazing eloquence.
  



: 
Famous filmmaker and
Journalist Pralhad Keshav Atre
widely known as Acharya P.K.
Atre, who is known for his
comedy movies and
autobiographies, produced and
directed the movie based on the
novel. Even though the print is
not of superior quality and
acting skills are not at par with
today¶s best, the movie still
manages to leave a huge impact
on the viewer.
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Atre wrote seven plays,
some with a humorous
theme, and others with
a serious theme. All of
them received high
public acclaim. His
comedy-play, Ò

Ò  was later
adapted into Hindi
film,
  
(K  , starring
Govinda and Raveena
Tandon.
Ô He was a teacher and a Principal of a high school for about years.
Ô He compiled a series of Marathi language textbooks for elementary and
secondary schools. Those textbooks remained in wide use in
Maharashtra for a large number of years.
Ô He was an outstanding humorist, and his writing style²whether he
wrote humorous or serious material²was highly effective. He
introduced parodistic poetry to Marathi language (under the pen name
 
, and he did that extraordinarily well.
Ô His book, Ë  , contains the collection of his parodistic
poems.
Ô (He wrote a poem, (  , under the whimsical pen name Ò

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 ...............O girl, nay pretty damsel
 

 ............... O naughty little mouse




 .................... Me, a dark rocky cliff




 .................And you a flowery Kashmir valley



 
 .....................I am the satan of the underworld



 ........................You a houri from the house of God

   

........... Dusky beauty from Madra Desh, you [Madras]
 

 .................... Me a kalandari mendicant






 ...................I am the Tharpark desert
 


 ...............You are fertile Gujrati land

 

 ............... Me the Arabian sea


 

 ................... You a nature spring





 ................ I am the darkness of the monsoon month

 

 .............. You are the honey-night of autumn



  ....... Me the dirty full moon


 
................... You the burnished silvery crescent
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 ............ You the chaturdasha poem
 
 
 ..................I am a horrible racket



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 ...................[No idea what are 'mazoom' and 'yakuti']


 ....................Me the Kabuli hing [Asafoetida], you a peppercorn

  ...............You are opium drink, I am the chandol drug
   
 .......................I am cooking oil, you are a mustard seed

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................. I am rotgut moonshine
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 .................. You the sweetness of Whiskey

 

 ................. I am a bitter herbal remedy




 .................... You, girl, are like rock candy

!!   ..........................I am a pattice you are a cutlet

  
 .........................I am an omelette you are a curry

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 ...............I am onions-potatoes-rice




 ....................... You are a chicken biryani
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 ....................... I am a Kandahar walnut





 ...................... You an Arab date
   
 ..................... I am 'abeer' (? from Istambul
 
 
 .......................... You are like Nepali musk

  
 .....................I am a torn blanket

 

 ............... You are rich soft velvet
 

  .................... Me a clumsy triangle

 
 .................... But you are an ellipse


    
......... How long shall I wait ? Say 'yes' please
 
 
 ................. My heart is losing hope




 ...................... But please, by refusing me,


  

 .......... do not make mincemeat of my love
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He was a patriot, idealist and Indian independence activist.

He had born in Tharoor village of Palakkad as the grandson
of the Ruler of palghat.
Graduated in Arts from Madras University and Bar-at-law
from Middle Temple. He joined the Indian National
Congress in K K
and served as the secretary of the Malabar
branch of the Home Rule League after setting up practice in
Calicut.
Ô He was a member of the Home Rule League under
Annie Besant which proceeded to London to
present a memorandum to the Secretary of State in
K K
.
Ô He also wrote a dozen of books and collections of
essays.
Ô Menon was the founder of Mathrubhumi Daily, a
popular newspaper which earned the second place
in circulation in Kerala.
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Ô Based in the northern Kerala town of Kozhikode (Calicut ,
Mathrubhumi (circulation K

,
, was founded in
K  in the aftermath of Gandhi's non-cooperation
movement as a public limited company.
Ô This status makes it rare among newspapers, which tend to
be closely held private companies owned by a single
family.
Ô Mathrubhumi's ownership has proved controversial, and the
struggles to control it illustrate the extent to which language
and newspapers affect the emotions and politics of large
numbers of people.