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Chaman Nehal Biography


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Chaman Nahal commonly known as C Nahal, also known as Chaman Nahal Azadi, was an Indian born writer of English literature. He was widely considered as one of the best exponents of Indian writing in English and is known for his work, Azadi, which is set on India's Independence and her partition.[1] He is also known for his depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as a complex character with human failings.[2]

[2] Chaman Nahal was born in Sialkot, in pre-Independence India, a province in the present day Pakistan, in 1927. After having his school education locally, he did his master's in English at University of Delhi in 1948. He continued his education as a British Council Scholar at University of Nottingham (1959–61) and obtained a PhD in English in 1961. During his education, he worked as a lecturer (1949–1962. In 1962, he joined Rajasthan University, Jaipur as reader in English. The next year, he moved to New Delhi as professor of English at the University of New Delhi. He was a Fulbright fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey and served as a visiting professor at various universities in the United States, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Canada and North Korea. He was also a fellow at Cambridge College in 1991 and worked as columnist for the Indian Express, writing a column, Talking about Books from 1966 to 1973. He died on November 29, 2013 in New Delhi, India.[citation needed]

My True Faces Orient 1973

Into Another Dawn Sterling 1977

The English Queens Vision 1979

Sunrise in Fiji Allied 1988

Azadi (Freedom) Arnold-Heinemann & Boston

Houghton Mifflin 1975

The Crown and the Loincloth Vikas 1981

The Salt of Life Allied 1990

The Triumph of the Tricolour Allied 1993

The Gandhi Quartet Allied 1993

Short story collection

Work Publisher Year

The Weird Dance and Other Stories Arya 1965

Uncollected short stories

Work Publisher Year

"Tons" The Statesman 1977

"The Light on the Lake" Illustrated Weekly of India 1984

"The Take Over" Debonair 1984

Others

Silent Life Roli Books 2005

Children's novels

Work Publisher Year

Akela and the Blue Monster Aruvik & Allied 2007

Akela and the Asian Tsunami Aruvik & Allied 2009

Akela and the UFOs Aruvik & Allied 2009

Literary review

Chaman Nahal's writings are known to talk about India without any touch of exoticism. Azadi, his novel on the partition of India, is widely considered to be the best of the Indian-English novels written about the traumatic partition which accompanied Indian Independence in 1947 (Quoted from '’Train to Pakistan – Azadi : Vice-versa Journey'’ by Dr. Mangalkumar R. Patil). An autobiographical book, Silent Life, was originally written in English and later translated into 12 languages, including Russian, Hungarian and Sinhalese.[2]

Awards and honours

Award Year

Sahitya Akademi Award 1977

Federation of Indian Publishers award 1977

Federation of Indian Publishers award 1979