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Krishna Sobti

‘Khuda hafiz. Kripanarayan’: Remembering Krishna Sobti with a fragment from her book ‘Dil-o-Danish’

Krishna Sobti died a year ago, on January 25, 2019, at the age of 94.

Krishna Sobti
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Amitabha Bagchi
· Jan 25, 2020 · 05:30 pm
‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’: Krishna Sobti fictionalises her own encounter with the Partition

An excerpt from the English translation of the novel by Daisy Rockwell.

Krishna Sobti
· Feb 26, 2019 · 08:30 am
Krishna Sobti lost a childhood friend in the Partition riots and wrote about her in fiction – twice

A short story from 1950 and an excerpt from Sobti’s final novel from 2017, translated by Daisy Rockwell.

Krishna Sobti
· Jan 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘No Brahmin woman ever had a namazi Syed for a husband, nor will she be permitted’

An excerpt from Krishna Sobti’s epic novel ‘Zindaginama’, finally translated into English.

Krishna Sobti
· Apr 03, 2016 · 08:30 am