Bhisham Sahni

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 7 titles

  • We Have Arrived in Amritsar

    The backdrop to this collection of stories is 1947 - the year the British announced the division of the country into two separate nations - India and Pakistan. These short stories tell us of the horrors of partition, of life in Delhi's slums and subu...

  • Tamas

    ''Tamas, in either Rockwell''s translation or the original Hindi, remains an essential text for the times''

    Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard

    ''Tamas is a prophetic warning against the use of religion a...

  • Middle India

    Some of the titles included in this collection are: Dinner for the Boss, Paali, Sparrow, Veero, The Witch, Before Dying, and Radha-Anuradha. All these stories delve into the lives of the lower middle class people and their semi-urban way of living. T...

  • Basanti

    The braid of young Basanti's life thickens with time. Feisty and fearless, she plays hide and seek with her overbearing father, dodges the crippled old tailor whom she's sold to and elopes with a handsome young man. Unwilling to let anyone suppress h...

  • Boyhood -Modern Classice

    In a bustling town in Punjab before the Partition, a sickly but restless child longs to play with the neighbourhood youngsters. He is constantly thwarted by his mother's anxious need to coddle him at home. When not being punished for using foul langu...

  • Mansion

    Magnificent in scope and intensely moving, Mansion spans the long years between the fall of the Khalsa regime and the turbulence of the British Raj. Innumerable characters populate these pages: from the wily Diwan Dhanpat Rai to the idealistic Lekhra...

  • The Boy with a Catapult



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bhisham Sahni has published 7 books.

Bhisham Sahni does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Boy with a Catapult, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Bhisham Sahni, We Have Arrived in Amritsar, was published in September 1990.

No. Bhisham Sahni does not write books in series.
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