History News Desk!!! Narendra Kohli (English: Narendra Kohli, born- January 6, 1940, Sialkot; died- April 17, 2021, Delhi) was a Hindi novelist, story writer, playwright and satirist. Narendra Kohli wrote in all the major genres of literature (e.g. novel, satire, drama, story) and minor genres (e.g. memoir, essay, letters etc.) and critical literature. The credit for starting the genre of ‘epic novel’ in Hindi literature goes to Narendra Kohli. Kohli’s unique specialty was to solve the mysteries of mythological and historical characters and present the problems of modern society and their solutions to the society through them.
life introduction
Narendra Kohli was born on January 6, 1940 in Sialkot (undivided Punjab). Now this city is in Pakistan. His mother Vidyavanti was born in an ordinary farmer family of a small village. Due to lack of system and tradition of education for girls, they remained illiterate. He died in 1992 AD in Delhi at the estimated age of 80-82 years. His father, Parmanand Kohli, was born in 1903 AD in a middle class working family of Sialkot. He was withdrawn from school in eighth grade due to eye disease. Despite being fond of reading and writing, he could not study further. He left the manuscripts of his three-four novels written in Urdu as inheritance for his writer son. Kept working as a temporary clerk in the Forest Department of undivided Punjab. After the partition of the country, due to lack of capital, degree and any other skill, he was forced to sell fruits by sitting on the tracks in Jamshedpur. Later he opened a small shop. He died in 1985 at the age of 82.
Education
Narendra Kohli’s education started at the age of five-six at Devsamaj High School, Lahore. After that, he also studied at Ganda Singh High School in Sialkot for a few months. After the partition of India in 1947, the family moved to Jamshedpur, Bihar (now in Jharkhand). Here studies started from third class, in Dhatkidih Lower Primary School. Education from fourth to seventh grade (1949-53 AD) took place in the New Middle English School. Studied from class 8th to class 11th (1953-57 AD) under Mrs. K. M.P.M. High School, Jamshedpur. Studied science related subjects in high school. Till now the medium of education was Urdu language. Entered Jamshedpur Co-operative College for higher education. The subjects were compulsory English and compulsory Hindi along with psychology, logic and special Hindi. Please come. (1959 AD) examination from Bihar University. B. A. I chose Philosophy and Hindi Literature (Hons) with compulsory English. B.Sc. from Jamshedpur Co-operative College (Ranchi University) in 1961. A. M.A. with Honors (Hindi) Came to Delhi for education. M.A. in Hindi Literature from Ramjas College (Delhi University) in 1963 AD. Passed the test of. Ph.D. from this same university in 1970. Received the degree of (Vidya Vachaspati).
Marriage
Narendra Kohli married Dr. Madhurima Kohli in 1965. Madhurima M.A. in Hindi Literature from Delhi University; Ph.D. Are. He has been associated with the Hindi Department of Kamala Nehru College, Delhi since 1964. In December 1967, twin children, son Kartikeya and daughter Surbhi, were born. Surabhi was born only twenty-four days old. Kartikeya now holds an M.A. in Economics from Delhi University; M.Phil; Ph.D. Kar is teaching Economics at Ramlal Anand (Evening) College, Delhi. Younger son Agastya was born in 1975 AD. He received higher secondary education from Sardar Patel School, Delhi and went to study mechanics at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Now working as a Network Engineer in Telecommunication Systems in Seattle (United States of America).
teaching
Narendra Kohli did his first job in PGDAV, Delhi. (Evening) College as a Hindi teacher (1963-65 AD). Started the second job in Motilal Nehru College, Delhi in 1965 AD and ended the series of jobs by taking voluntary leave on 1 November 1995 at the age of fifty-five.
first published work
Narendra Kohli had a desire to write and get published since childhood. The first composition was published in the handwritten magazine of the class in the sixth class. In the eighth grade, a story ‘Hindostan: Jannat Nishan’ was published in Urdu in the school’s printed magazine. I started writing in Hindi during my high school days. Some of his early works as a children’s writer were published in ‘Kishore’ (Patna), ‘Awaaz’ (Dhanbad) etc. Please come. During his studies, a story ‘Water Jug, Glass and Ketli’ was published in the ‘Naye Ankur’ column of ‘Sarita’ (Delhi). Regular publication started from February 1960 AD. His first published work is considered to be ‘Do Haath’ (Story, Allahabad, February 1960 AD).
literary introduction
Narendra Kohli is a novelist, story writer, playwright and satirist. Despite all this, he is quite different from his contemporary writers. His contribution to the prosperity of literature and progress of society is evident. He has written famous stories; But they are completely original. They are modern; But do not imitate the West. Reaches the roots of Indianness, but is not traditionalist. Narendra Kohli’s stories started being published in 1960, in which he was highlighting the ironies of the society through simple family pictures and incidents. He started writing satire around 1965 AD. His language had become distorted, and the ironies of the country and politics were coming to the fore. In his works written in those days, he showed the inhumanity, cruelty and irrationality of social and political life. The entire satirical literature of Hindi is a witness to the fact that there is no other place in our generation with such experimentalism, diversity and intensity as him. Narendra Kohli wrote a huge novel of 1800 pages in four volumes taking material from Ramkatha. Perhaps, this is the first novel based on the complete story of Ram, written in any language. It is a novel, hence contemporary, progressive, modern and logical. Its basic material was taken from the cultural tradition of India, hence it depicts the sublime values of life, the greatness of man and the boundlessness of life. The Hindi reader was shocked and woke up from a deep sleep. He became free from the duality of his values and intellect. He got answers to his stubborn questions and his doubts were resolved.
Narendra Kohli wrote a novel – ‘Abhigyan’ based on the story of Krishna. The story is political. When the powerful Shri Krishna publicly accepts the poor and helpless Sudama as his friend, then Sudama’s credibility in the social, business and political fields immediately increases. But the backbone of this work is the ‘karma principle’ of Bhagavad Gita. There is no afterlife, no heaven and hell, no afterlife in this work. The ‘karma theory’ has been explained in accordance with scientific principles, on the basis of senses and intellect, within a single life on this earth. That too in the form of an interesting section of an interesting novel. Narendra Kohli started writing his new novel ‘Maha Samar’ based on the Mahabharata story. ‘Mahabharata’ is a huge work, which presents Indian life, thinking, philosophy and behavior in an exemplary form. Narendra Kohli has completely brought this work to life in his era. In this novel, he has presented life in all its vastness in a very original manner. They give solutions to the real questions of life on the basis of cognition and logic. Characters like Yudhishthir, Krishna, Kunti, Draupadi, Balram, Arjun, Bhima and Karna etc. were presented in a very new form.
novel series
Narendra Kohli surprised the readers by starting another novel series. This is, ‘Todo Kara Todo’. The title is a translation of a line from a song by Rabindranath Tagore; But the novel is related to the biography of Swami Vivekananda. Swamiji’s life is an incident of the recent past. All the events of his life are authentically recorded in history. There is no special space for the novelist’s own imagination or thinking in this. Identification with the personality and thinking of their hero is the only path for them. On every page of this juicy novel by Narendra Kohli, the reader is astonished to see the novelist’s identification with his hero. Swami Vivekananda’s life was a meaningful struggle to transcend constraints and boundaries. The bonds may be of nature, society, politics, religion or spirituality. In the words of Narendra Kohli,
“The charm of Swami Vivekananda’s personality is not attraction, it is magic… magic that speaks headlong. No sensitive person can go near him and remain hypnotized and the young mind goes crazy with excitement. Which Swamiji was the embodiment of the ultimate development and it was unfair to tie him to any one era, region or organization. Too.”
Honors and Awards
State Literary Award 1975-76 AD (With Suffering Suffering) Education Department, Uttar Pradesh Government, Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award 1977-78 AD (Mera Apna Sansar), Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow. Allahabad Natya Sangam Award, 1978 AD (Murder of Shambuk), Allahabad Natya Sangam, Allahabad. Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award, 1979-80 AD (Towards Struggle) Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow. Manas Sangam Literary Award, 1978 AD (Samagra Ramkatha), Manas Sangam, Kanpur. Sahitya Samman 1985-86 AD (Composite Literature), Hindi Academy, Delhi. Literary Work Award, 1987-88 AD (Mahasamar-1, Bandhan), Hindi Academy, Delhi. Dr. Kamil Bulke Award 1989-90 AD (Composite Literature), Department of Official Language, Government of Bihar, Patna. Shalaka Samman 1995-96 AD (Composite Literature), Hindi Academy, Delhi. Sahitya Bhushan – 1998 (Composite Literature), Uttar Pradesh Hindi Institute, Lucknow. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Award – 2004 AD (Composite Literature), Uttar Pradesh Hindi Institute, Lucknow. Vyas Samman (2012) Padma Bhushan (2017)
death
Senior litterateur Narendra Kohli, popular among his supporters of the modern generation as ‘Modern Tulsidas’ for his novels written on Ram Katha, died on April 17, 2021 in Delhi. He was seriously ill for the last few days due to Corona infection. On the instructions of the Central Government, he was provided high level health care, where he was also undergoing treatment. He was kept on ventilator. But despite all the medical efforts, he finally left this world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the demise of famous litterateur Narendra Kohli and expressed condolences to his family. He tweeted and said, ‘Extremely saddened by the demise of famous litterateur Narendra Kohli ji. He will always be remembered for his lively portrayal of mythological and historical characters in literature. My thoughts are with his family and fans in this hour of mourning. Om Shanti!
