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Episode: Manohar Shyam Joshi at the age of 70 | My regrets
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 de...