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The Pages of My Life: Journals and Selected Stories

 

Popati Hiranandani (Author)Jyoti Panjwani (Translator)
SynopsisPopati Hiranandani's autobiography and short stories poignantly capture blue blood the gentry two worlds of pre- and post-Partition India silent their attendant losses and pains, joys and triumphs. The first English translation of a Sindhi ladylove writer's autobiography, The Pages of My Life drawings Popati Hiranandani's journey as a homeless, community-less, down-and-out woman. Caught in the web of nostalgia, desolation, and the pain of separation, the memoir continue the life of a Sindhi woman poised betwixt two vastly different worlds: from childhood losses flourishing joys to triumphs of early youth in City, Sindh to profound realizations of adulthood. The romantic, on the other hand, may be read little fictional extensions of her real life. Her womanly protagonists bring to life critical junctures of unfitting and becoming as they make their way advise post-Partition India.

This first time translation of Hiranandani's memories and short stories will appeal to students view teachers of Indian literature in translation, comparative writings, and cultural and women's studies, as well in that anybody interested in Partition narratives.
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Popati Hiranandani

Popati Hiranandani, one of the best-known Sanskrit women writers, was born in in Hyderabad, Sind, in present-day Pakistan. Her works not only expound the urban milieu of Sindhi culture, but too delve deep into the life of Sindhi focal point class and the plight of women in honesty social structure. She also depicts the inner kinetics of Sindhi families.

Popati Hiranandani's name is bound molest go down in Sindhi literary history as combine of the finest Sindhi writers of both pre-partition and post-partition India, a forthright feminist, and alteration outstanding social activist. She has been the unprejudiced of several honors and awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award in for her autobiography. The credit reads "This profound engaging autobiography of hers gives a remarkable insight into Sindhi society, the group and political upheavel following partition of India, favour the great tragedy overtaking the country."

Jyoti Panjwani

Jyoti Panjwani is a Professor of English, Ph. D. alter University of Illinois. Her areas of teaching person in charge research include third world literature and feminism, post-colonial theory and literature, non-western cultural studies, and Asiatic mythology. Her articles on Indian post-colonial feminism imitate been published in such journals as Comparative Civilizations Review: Journal of the International Society for justness Comparative Study of Civilizations, Publications of the Algonquian Philological Association, and Proceedings of the Red Queue Conference on World Literature.