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	Two writers, one message
		Nirmal Verma belongs to a middle class, forward caste Hindu family and was born in Shimla, the queen of hill stations, where his father was an officer during the Raj.
		If Nirmal is innovative in his treatment of a youngish, unmarried middle class woman torn between a widower father, a widowed aunt and a distant brother and tormented by her own desire for an unsuspecting engineer, Shahani turned the story int o a near-phantasy, taking the liberty from the highly mnemonic title.
		Nirmal Verma asserts that in the modern world, where all manner of tricks and terrors are exercised to compromise the human conscience, art in its freedom is perhaps most deeply committed to the language of truth, without which all social commitments los e their value.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1707/17070860.htm (1524 words)

	Lettre Ulysses Award \| Nirmal Verma, India (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nirmal Verma was born on 3rd April 1929 in the Himalayan district of Simla, India.
		In 1956 Verma resigned from the primary membership of the Communist Party as a protest against Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary.
		In 1996, Nirmal Verma was nominated for the well known Neustad Award of University of Oklahoma, instituted by the magazine The World Literature.
	www.lettre-ulysses-award.org.cob-web.org:8888 /jury03/verma.html (378 words)

	DNA - Salon - Verma: Weaving sad rhythms - Daily News & Analysis
		Nirmal Verma, major Hindi writer, essayist and intellectual, who died last week, will be remembered for exploring the other world in exciting new ways and idioms.
		Verma preferred the slow movement of the interior world, and brought to light the dimly lit, darkly hidden, scarcely noticed areas of human existence and experience.
		The geography of Nirmal Verma's fiction is the familiar middle class life of Indian towns, but it emanates from its loneliness, its sad rhythms, its unending nightmares- all still rooted in the human predicaments of love and longing, of incompleteness and aspirations.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=8390 (703 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| January - February 2006
		Nirmal Verma’s life and work is a reminder that our languages need to expand beyond linguistics before we can reclaim what we have lost.
		Verma seems best placed to engage with this difference between the global and the local, and his writings are a cross-fertilisation of ideas and themes in many fundamental ways.
		Therefore, inevitably what we find in Verma is a repetition, of feelings, sensibilities, loneliness, which he tried to glorify and turn into solitude, and he is wholly immersed in that.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/january/analysis_3.html (2814 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		Verma may well be a Nobel nominee after a long journey that began in 1929, when his father worked as an officer in the British defence ministry.
		Verma termed his stay in Prague as “the turning point in my life.” Before Milan Kundera, Vaclav Havel, and Karel Capek found their English readers, Verma had translated them into Hindi.
		Verma was seen as an outsider by the literary establishment.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main13.asp?filename=hub080605The_Interpreter.asp (941 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Visions in the Yamuna: Nirmal Verma
		Verma was a genuine Indian original -- a St. Stephen's graduate who decided to commit himself to Hindi (not English), and who spent the 1960s in Prague, studying Czech literature and translating it into Hindi.
		What Verma offers in "The Lost Stream" is a series of small, nuanced observations, and a self-reflexive take on the strange feeling of isolation that comes with giving oneself over to observing the world, rather than attempting to act in it.
		I came to Nirmal Verma through a reference in Wilhelm Halbfass's wonderful India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding which is about the "hermeneutics" of the encounter between Indian (in this case, Indian means Hindu) philosophy and the West.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/10/visions-in-yamuna-nirmal-verma.html (1746 words)

	Irony in the soul : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nirmal Verma was one of the few Indian writers of post-Independence India, who could see that culture involved more than just the production and consumption of art: it also involved the production of ideas, including critical ideas through which art must be understood and assimilated.
		Nirmal was often resoundingly critical of the official literary world of Hindi, as also the Akademis that killed the vernaculars with kindness.
		Nirmal’s ruling passion was not for the aesthetic, but for the moral.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Dec/09/181_1530419,00120003.htm (538 words)

	Amazon.ca: Crows of Deliverance: Books: Nirmal Verma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Verma's Indians, whether in Europe or in India itself, have thrown off the old traditional ways and, of necessity, embraced the new, but the price paid is high.
		A journalist in Delhi travels to a mountain town filled with crows (``a sort of transit camp for men and crows--on their way to deliverance'') in search of a long- lost and beloved brother who's become a holy man. Their eventual meeting, however, is a poignant reminder of the irreconcilable differences between them.
		Written in clear and deceptively simple prose, Verma's stories movingly describe men and women of a certain class caught on the cusp of change and trying uneasily to survive there.
	www.amazon.ca /Crows-Deliverance-Nirmal-Verma/dp/0930523806 (403 words)

	Indian Errant - Stories by Nirmal Verma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nirmal has been one of the few Indian writers among my contemporaries about whom I have felt he is both universal and intensely Indian.
		To the subjects of exile, loss and displacement, Nirmal Verma brings a uniquely tender sensibility as well as a vision that is profoundly informed by the specificities of a wider historical experience.
		The tone and mood of Nirmal Verma's writing are reminiscent of Montale's poetry; gently fatalistic, affectionately disposed, narrowly focused, his peculiarly Indian gloom lending a sense of poetic mystery and impermanence to the relationships he writes about.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/9480.htm (350 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		Pioneering Hindi novelist Nirmal Verma who changed the face and foundation of Hindi literature, was a truly global writer much before it was fashionable to be called one.
		Verma grew up in the hills in the fading twilight of the Raj, took his degree from St Stephen’s, Delhi, worked in Czechoslovakia for seven years as a translator and filed reportage for the Times of India from London.
		A critical conservative, Verma the writer never allowed his fiction to be coloured by the beliefs of Verma the private citizen.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051106/spectrum/book7.htm (833 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From his early story Parinde to his last novel Antim Aranya, Verma’s contemplation on death was a key to his portrayal of the human condition, rooted in existential angst.
		Nirmal Verma, with his twinkling eyes, unbridled laughter and open, honest conversation swept away all differences of age, experience, language or stature as he welcomed you into his personal space.
		Earlier, Verma had spent nine years in Czechoslovakia as a translator, and happened to witness the Prague spring of 1968.
	www.the-week.com /25nov20/columns_home.htm (632 words)

	Hindi writer, translator of Czech modern writers, Nirmal Verma passes away - 27-10-2005 - Radio Prague
		The Indian writer Nirmal Verma, who died in New Delhi on Tuesday at the age of 75, was considered one of India's best fiction writers but he was also a translator from Czech into Hindi.
		In a 2003 interview for The Indian Express, Nirmal Verma said Czechoslovakia was for him "a window, a sort of a threshold to go into another world, into another experience".
		Described as a luminary of Hindi prose, Nirmal Verma published a total of five novels, eight collections of short stories and nine books of essays and travelogues, which have been translated into several European languages, and was awarded a number of prestigious prizes both in his native India and internationally.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/72130 (618 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		Verma’s stories are like Chekov’s, in which the surface is invariably uneventful, but something keeps on happening underneath.
		What strikes the reader of the present representative selection is Verma’s egalitarian instinct to allow his characters enough freedom to speak from within their own limited horizons and to live their often colourless memory-burdened lives in accordance with their customary habits and modes of feeling.
		It is to Nirmal Verma’s credit that he remained unimpressed, though not unmoved by the social and political turmoil around him.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050515/spectrum/book3.htm (460 words)

	Nirmal Verma bemoans decline in Hindi reading
		Known for his powerful language, Verma, when questioned about the origin of his particular style of writing, remarked: "I never thought of my style consciously.
		For artists of the performing or visual arts, there is a direct dialogue, a feedback from the patrons, but it is not so with the writers.
		Verma has written four novels, eight short story collections, two collections of essays, a couple of travelogues and translated a few books.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990225/ige25130.html (291 words)

	Creativity versus ideology -DAWN Magazine; November 12, 2006
		In fact, I had come to Delhi at the invitation of Nirmal Smriti, which has initiated an annual lecture series in memory of Nirmal Verma, the leading fiction writer of India writing in Hindi.
		Ram Kumar is the brother of Nirmal Verma and is counted among the most distinguished painters of India.
		Nirmal Verma is a short story writer as well as a novelist.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/dmag/archive/061112/dmag13.htm (836 words)

	The Hindu : National : Nirmal Verma, Kovilan elected Sahitya Akademi Fellows
		Hindi writer Nirmal Verma and Malayalam novelist Kovilan were today elected Fellows of the Sahitya Akademi.
		Verma, who will turn 76 in April, is revered as the pioneer of the New Story in Hindi Literature.
		Winner of the Jnanpith in 1999, Verma who lives in the national capital, is famous for his novels Antima Aranya and Rata ka Riportara.
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/17/stories/2005021704391300.htm (400 words)

	Nirmal Verma passes away - another subcontinent forums
		Born on April 3, 1929, Verma pioneered the 'new short story' (Nayee Kahani) form in Hindi literature alongwith writers Mohan Rakesh, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar and Amarkant.
		Verma was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship earlier this year and is also the recepient of the Jnanpith Award, the country's highest literary honour.
		Verma wrote his first short story for a students magazine in early 1950s.
	www.anothersubcontinent.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3635 (1485 words)

	The Hindu : New Delhi News : Ode to Nirmal Verma
		The Hindu : New Delhi News : Ode to Nirmal Verma
		And as friends and fans remembered the distinguished Hindi author Nirmal Verma on this nippy November evening this Saturday, it was with the very words that Verma has left the world to remember him by.
		Considered a luminary of Hindi prose, Nirmal Verma was credited with pioneering the new story movement in Hindi literature along with titans like Mohan Rakesh, Bhishma Sahni and Kamleshwar and Amarkant.
	www.hindu.com /2005/11/06/stories/2005110611990400.htm (467 words)

	Nirmal Verma -- Hindi Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)
		A well-known name in Hindi literature, Nirmal Verma is known mainly for his fictional works.
		Nirmal Verma is a recipient of India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith, and his short stories Kavve aura kala pani won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985.
		As one of the most important prose Hindi writers of our times, Nirmal Verma's creativity extends to the description and travel to places in Europe especially on Czechoslovakia and literary criticism.
	www.loc.gov /acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/nirmalverma.html (365 words)

	outlookindia.com \| wired
		Renowned Hindi litterateur Nirmal Verma died after a prolonged illness at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here tonight.
		The mortal remains of Verma would be consigned to flames at the Lodhi Road crematorium at 3:00 pm tomorrow.
		In 1959, with the publication of 'Parinde', his first book of short stories, he was acclaimed by renowned critics as the first signature of the new story movement of Hindi literature.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=331207 (633 words)

	The Day After
		We lost Amrita Pritam, Nirmal Verma and Madhvan Kutty from the field of literature, then K R Narayanan, the “People’s President’ and finally, the gentleman revolutionary, Madhu Dandavate too.
		In his language, style and creativity, he was the fore runner of the stalwarts who put Hindi literature in his original and translated forms in the world map.
		Both Amrita Pritam and Nirmal Verma, fighting against physical ailments in the swansong days of their lives, carried to the last day their unrelinquishable creative spirit, despite failing and frail bodies.
	www.dayafterindia.com /nov205/good_morning.html (1239 words)

	Seasons India :: Hindi Literature of India
		An active freedom fighter, Mahadevi Verma is regarded as one of the four pillars of the great Romantic movement in modern Hindi poetry, Chayavada, the remaining three being Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Jaishankar Prasad and Sumitranandan Pant.
		Mahadevi Verma has often been compared with Mira Bai, the great 16th century devotional poetess, in her lyrical mysticism and deep devotional offerings to the Almighty.
		Although he has published four novels, six collections of essays and cultural criticism, it is his short stories that beautifully bring out his ethereal sensitivity, lyricism and profound compassion.
	www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/lit_hindi_sea.htm (1917 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| Visions in the Yamuna: Nirmal Verma
		Posted by Amardeep Singh on 10/27/05 at 07:30 PM Via the mighty Complete Review (and Uma, The Elegant Variation, and others), I hear of the death of the Hindi writer Nirmal Verma at age 76.
		Verma was a genuine Indian original—a St. Stephen’s graduate who decided to commit himself to Hindi (not English), and who spent the 1960s in Prague, studying Czech literature and translating it into Hindi.
		Verma embraced modernism, and created a distinctly Indian variant of the French Nouveau Roman in Hindi, the Nai Kahani ("New Story”—essentially a direct translation of “Nouveau Roman").
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/visions_in_the_jamuna_nirmal_verma (1163 words)

	Report: IACLALS Annual Conference
		This was a question raised implicitly by inviting Nirmal Verma to give the inaugural address, and explicitly as ever by Harish Trivedi in his address about the addresser.
		For Harish, the question was whether Nirmal Verma ought to be considered a post-colonial writer.
		At the same time, and again as the Verma example shows, those writings cannot be imagined as insulated from broader international issues.
	iaclals.8m.com /nl/01jul/01jul02.htm (769 words)

	Books: A Known World
		irmal Verma is often described as the pioneer of "nai kahani" in Hindi literature.
		The modern-day reader may find it difficult to relate to the world portrayed in the works of the likes of Munshi Prem Chand and other great storytellers of yore.
		Verma's work can be described as "modern" in the sense that one strikes an instant rapport with the world depicted in his works.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/19991018/books3.html (619 words)

	another subcontinent forums > tribute to Nirmal verma
		Nov 30 2005, 05:08 PM Dinkar, welcome to AS I think Unusual Smell had some pun in mind with your avatar/name dinkar but am too much of a tubelight to know what exactly he meant there.
		Nov 30 2005, 09:49 PM Dinkar, listen to Nirmal Verma.
		a discussion of prasenjit gupta's translations of nirmal verma
	www.anothersubcontinent.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php?t3903.html (389 words)

	NIRMAL VERMA VS. MCD [2005] INHCD 101 (18 March 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		NIRMAL VERMA VS. MCD [2005] INHCD 101 (18 March 2005)
		Petitioner also assails order bearing No.D/6242/AEO/KBZ/03 dated 10th March, 2003, by which her representation, seeking reconsideration of order dated 31st May, 2002 was not entertained.
		The decision making process in the case of Durgesh Mohan Puria, where withdrawal of resignation was permitted, reveals that the criteria and the legal stand taken by the respondents was contrary to the stand taken in the present case.
	www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INHCD/2005/101.html (2697 words)

	Dream Ink: November 2005
		In the last few weeks, India lost two literary figures: eminent Hindi writer Nirmal Verma and Punjabi poetess and novelist, Amrita Pritam.
		For the uninitiated, Nirmal Verma is among the most significant names in contemporary Hindi literature.
		Verma has several short stories collections, novels, essays, and travelogues to his credit.
	dreamink.blogspot.com /2005_11_01_dreamink_archive.html (1257 words)

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