Vineet Gill’s Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life in Literature is an intellectual brew of personalised interpretation and the literary biography of the illustrious Hindi writer-thinker, Nirmal Verma. If the former can be attributed to Vineet’s retrospective devotion to the towering figure of modern Hindi literature Nirmal Verma, the latter brings out the complex changes in the landscape of Hindi/global …
Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:40 IST Vineet Gill’s book is neither a conventional biography nor an attempt to excavate biographical details of Nirmal Verma’s life from his published works. Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life in Literature By Vineet Gill Vintage Books Pages: 168 Price: Rs.499 Nirmal Verma transmuted progressive idealism and pure aestheticism into a new literary idiom …
While reading this unusual book, I was reminded of a comment that Raghuvir Sahay, one of the front-ranking Hindi poets of the 20th century, had penned to understand and analyse Tooti Hui, Bikhari Hui, one of the most celebrated love poems in Hindi. Also, I am not too sure of the need to know another man’s literary journey as Gill …
