Anand Khemani
Introductory
Famous Sindhi Writer – Modern Sindhi Literature – Sahitya Academy Award
Anand Chimandas Khemani born on 09 September 1933 is not just trend setter for Sindhi literature but also among the eminent personalities of Sindhi literature honored with prestigious Sahitya Academy Award.
“Rishtan Jee Siyasat” a story collection by Anand Khemani was the book for which he had received Sahitya Academy Award in the year 2009. Anand Khemani have credit of more than 20 published books mainly Sindhi Story collection and those which he translated in Sindhi language for Sahitya Akademi. He has also worked as jury member of Sahitya Akademi Translation Awards 2017 for Sindhi language.
Biography / About - Anand Chimandas Khemani
Anand Khemani and few others like Harish Vaswani, Vasudev, Prem Prakash etc. are not only the stronger supporters of New Poetry, to which some also term as Anti Poetry, but also the persons who initiated this style of poetry writing.
Like the poetry Anand Khemani with Prem Abichandani, Lakhmi Khilani and few others have adopted modern approach to literary criticism based on entire and realistic analysis. He has brought new and modern era to story writing in Sindhi not just the style but topics like helplessness, modern machine-like life style and even disbelief started to find central place in the stories written in Sindhi. One of the books “Badiljandar Daur Ain Tanqueed” written by Anand Khemani is prescribed for B.A. course in Sindhi. Anuvad kala – Kuchh Vichar is another book of Anand Khemani written in Hindi and prescribed as text book by some universities.
At the time of migrating to India, Anand Khemani was young boy of fifteen years because his family shifted to India in 1948. After staying for few months at Baroda family shifted to Delhi and become settled there. Soon after completing his education Anand Khemani got job at Parliament from which he retired in 1991. As a person Anand Khemani is highly unhappy with script dispute for Sindhi language. According to him this not only proved as a hurdle in creation of new Sindhi literature but younger sindhi generation remained unaware of the rich literary heritage of Sindhi language and Sindhi community.
It was 1957 when Anand Khemani started writing. Anand Khemani is considered one of the stalwarts of modern Sindhi literature, his writings are based on the reality of life. In his novel “Hik Shkhs Ji Vasana” [Lust of A Man] he successfully portraits nature of man and his Gothic attitude. This novel is considered as the rise of new traditions in Sindhi prose.
In one of his story “Tukara Tukara” he successfully narrated evil effects of death of Spirituality in life and towards the end of story illustrated “This should not happen as it happens”.
Literary Contribution
List of books by Anand Khemani
Badlijandar Daur Ain Tanqueed
Hik Shkhs Ji Vasana [Novel]
Luchi [Story Collection 1965]
November Ji Akhiri Raat [Story Collection 1976]
Rishtan Ji Siyasat [Story Collection 2007]
Anuvad kala – Kuchh Vichar (in Hindi)
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Awards
Sahitya Akademi Award: Year 2009
Title of Book: “Rishtan Ji Siyasat”
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