Rare, Human and Genius
Ashok Kumar: Professor Centre for Creative Advertising & Screenwriting Skills His novels have been translated into seventeen languages, he lives through thirty two collections of short stories and has forty nine novels and many screenplays to his credit. A writer who was of the same stature/calibre as Premchand has been totally sidelined by the Hindi walas. May be because he wrote in Urdu..but Premchand too wrote only in Urdu !! I am talking of Krishan Chander, who was awarded Padmabhooshan in 1969 , in whose name there is a Park in Poonchh City of J&K where he stands tall in the middle of the garden. There is a Chair in his name in the Mumbai University. His life was writing. It was one of those usual mornings for him and he had just started to write a satirical essay entitled ‘Adab baray-e-Batakh’ (Literature for a duck).He had written just one line ‘Noorani ko bachpan hi sey paltoo janwaron...