How did you arrive at this story and its setting? Did you draw on your own experiences of growing up in Jhansi?Īs it happens, I didn’t grow up in Jhansi, but all over MP. In this email interview, translated by Yusufji, he talks about satire and the world of his dazzling novels. He is currently working on his next novel, Ek Tanashah ki Aatmakatha ( The Autobiography of a Tyrant ). Dr Chaturvedi, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015, is also a popular columnist and has written scripts for film and television. It is the first of a thematic trilogy that includes Hum Na Marab (2014) and Svaang, published in April this year. It has just been translated into English as Alipura (Juggernaut Books) by Salim Yusufji, who earlier edited Ambedkar: The Attendant Details (Navayana, 2017) and co-edited Battling for India: A Citizen’s Reader (Speaking Tiger, 2019), with Githa Hariharan.īhopal-based Chaturvedi (69), also a well-known cardiologist and an internal medicine specialist, has his finger on the pulse of the people of his native region Alipura has well-etched characters that are credible and close-to-life. His biting satire Baramasi (1999) is a fascinating portrait of a family, buffeted by odds, as well as of Bundelkhand in the late 1960s.
Hindi’s eminent satirist, Gyan Chaturvedi ’s novels are bursting with irrepressible wit. Gyan Chaturvedi, author of Alipura, which has been translated from his 1999 biting satire, Baramasi, by Salim Yusufji.
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