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	Podcast:		Listen with Irfan
	Episode:		Manohar Shyam Joshi at the age of 70 \| My regrets
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:26:35
	Publish Date:		2021-05-09 19:46:33
	Description:		Manohar Shyam Joshi (9 August 1933 – 30 March 2006) was a Hindi writer, journalist and scriptwriter, most well known as the writer of Indian television's first soap opera, Hum Log (1984) and his early hits Buniyaad (1987), Kakkaji Kahin, a political satire and Kyaap, a novel which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award Manohar Shyam Joshi was also known for his novels which have dealt with topics ranging from love, in Kasap, described as one of the greatest love stories in Hindi, to devastating political satire like Netaji Kahin. He was a prominent post-modernist authors in modern Hindi literature, as amiably demonstrated by his cult novel Kuru kuru Swaahaa and his novella Hariya Hercules ki Hairaani and Hamzad . He was awarded the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for Hindi, for his novel Kyap, an allegory of modern India, known for its sensitive portrayal of the Kumaoni traditions of his home state of Uttarakhand. Photo courtesy Google Recorded on 17 December, 2003, New Delhi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sm-irfan/message
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