(1915-08-08)8 August 1915 Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India
Died
11 July 2003(2003-07-11) (aged 87) Delhi, India
Occupation
Writer
playwright
actor
Nationality
Indian
Period
1955–2003
Political party
Communist Party of India
Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998,[1] and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. He was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni.
^"Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
BhishamSahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay...
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who wrote Andha Yug, and other playwrights like Surendra Verma, and BhishamSahni. Kuber Nath Rai is one of the writers who dedicated themselves entirely...
Parikshit Sahni (actor, son of Balraj Sahni, husband of Aruna Kapoor and brother-in-law of Shekhar Kapur) Balraj Sahni (actor) BhishamSahni (playwright...
Caucasian Chalk Circle Azdak Bertolt Brecht-Arvind Gaur Madhavi Galav BhishamSahni-Arvind Gaur Merchant of Venice Bassanio William Shakespeare-Arvind Gaur...
des lettres (France) 2005 Nirmal Verma, together with Mohan Rakesh, BhishamSahni, Kamleshwar, Amarkant, Rajendra Yadav and others, is the founder of...
scientist Suresh Rattan Birbal Sahni, Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent Daya Ram Sahni, Indian archaeologist Harvinder...
Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls, BhishamSahni's Tamas, and Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2021 translation...
poems such as Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom's Dawn, 1947) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, BhishamSahni's Tamas (1974), Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges (1965), and...
Services Examination and Co-Founder at Dristi IAS classes Sikandar Bakht. BhishamSahni professor of the English department who was a noted writer and dramatist...
is next door to a left-wing cafe and bookstore, May Day. The writer BhishamSahni, along with many other artists, founded the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust...
the urge to switch to theatre completely. Arvind's debut play was BhishamSahni's Hanoosh (February, 1993). He started his theatre journey with plays...
Rajesh Kumar Court Martial by Swadesh Deepak Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein by BhishamSahni Tafteesh by Rajesh Kumar Kaal Kothari by Swadesh Deepak A Woman Alone...
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