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Episode: Mannu Bhandari | Life and Work
Description: ft Namwar Singh, Rajendra Yadav, Rachna Yadav, Pratibha Agrawal etc
Mannu Bhandari (3 April 1931 – 15 November 2021) was an Indian author, whose work dates up to late 1950s - early 1960s. She was most known for her two Hindi novels, Banti and Mahabhoj. She was often credited as one of the pioneers of the Nayi Kahaani Movement, a Hindi literary movement initiated by authors including Nirmal Verma, Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar, etc. Starting in the 1950s, a newly independent India was going through societal transformations like urbanization and industrialization. This demanded new debates, new opinions and new points of vi...