Shekhar Joshi
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Shekhar Joshi (शेखरजोशी) (Born. September, 1939) is a renowned Hindi author, who is equally famous for being his hallmark insight into the culture, traditions and lifestyles of people of Uttarakhand, as late Shailesh Matiyani, together they created a composite image of ethos of Kumaon for the rest of nation. His most known works are Dajyu (Big Brother) and Kosi Ka Ghatwar (The Miller of Kosi).
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[edit] Biography
Shekhar Joshi was born in September, 1939, in village Ojiyagaon, in Almora district of Uttarakhand in a farmers family and received his early education at Dehradun and Ajmer, and thereafter while studying in Intermediate he got selected for Defense Institute of E.M.I. and went to work within the Defense establishment from 1955 to 1986, when he resigned to take up full-time writing.
His acclaimed story, Dajyu (Big Brother) has also been made into a Children’s film by Children Film Society of India. Kosi Ka Ghatwar (The Miller of Kosi) and many other stories have been translated into English, Russian, Czech, Polish and Japanese [1]
[edit] Bibliography
- 10 Pratinidhi Kahaniyan by Shekhar Joshi (Hindi), ISBN 04217-5286.
- Naurangi Bimar Hai by Shekhar Joshi, Rajkamal Publications.
- The Miller of Kosi by Shekhar Joshi. Modern Hindi Short Stories; translated by Jai Ratan. New Delhi, Srishti, 2003, Chapter 5. ISBN 81-88575-18-6. [2]
- Bachche Ka Sapna by Shekhar Joshi, 2004 (Hindi). ISBN 8186209441.
- Dangri Vale by Shekhar Joshi, 1998.
- Mera Pahar by Shekhar Joshi. [3]
- "Big Brother" by Shekhar Joshi (Dajyu), Andersen 1994. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ Profile www.abhivyakti-hindi.org.
- ^ Chapter 5
- ^ Shekhar Joshi Books Hindi Book Centre.
- ^ List of writers from the Indian subcontinent
