Nirmal verma biography of william

For Hindi readers, this should be considered a moment of rejoicing as their two favourite writers –Agyeya and Nirmal Verma – whose significant works have inspired generations of writers and readers alike, have their biographies out this year, and, that too, in English.

Not only that, but it also reaffirms the belief that Hindi writers seem to have lost long ago – that Hindi literature is often sidelined by the English writing word.

It is interesting to read Vineet Gill’s Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life in Literature in this light.

For, a writer like Verma, whose affinity to foreign places or writers made fellow writers often question his Indianness, had the expertise to write in English but never quite did it. Not a bhasha chauvinist in a strict sense, Verma even found merit in the works of Indians who adopted English as their literary language, such as Mulk Raj Anand and R