Vijaydan Detha
| Vijaydan Detha | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 September 1926 Borunda, British India (now Rajasthan, India) |
| Died | 10 November 2013 (aged 87) |
| Pen name | Bijji |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Genre | fiction, satirist, folk-lore |
| Subject | socialist, anti-feudal, feminist |
| Spouse | Sayar Kanwar |
| Children | Kailash Kabir,Premdan,Late Shri Satyadev,Mahendra Detha |
Vijaydan Detha (1 September 1926 – 10 November 2013), also known as Bijji, was a noted writer from Rajasthan and a recipient of the Padma Shri award. He was also recipient of several other awards such as the Sahitya Akademi Award.
He has more than 800 short stories to his credit, which are translated into English and other languages. He was co-founder of Rupayan Sansthan with late Komal Kothari, an institute that documents Rajasthani folk-lore, arts and music. His literary works include Bataan ri Phulwari (garden of tales), a fourteen volume collection of stories that draws on folk-lore and spoken dialects of Rajasthan. His stories and novels have been adapted for many plays and movies including Habib Tanvir's Charandas Chor, Prakash Jha's Parinati, Amol Palekar's Paheli, and Duvidha by Mani Kaul. His grandson Levin Detha is a famous chemistry teacher in Jodhpur running Jodhpur's most successful IIT-JEE,BITSAT Preparation Coaching Institute named Pathshala.
Vijaydan Detha hails from charan caste. His father Sabaldan Detha and grandfather Jugtidan Detha were also well-known poets of Rajasthan. Detha lost his father and two brothers in a feud at the age of four-year. At the age of six he moved to Jaitaran (25 km from Borunda) where his brother Sumerdan used to work in civil court. He studied there till class IV. His brother had transferable job hence Vijaydan also had to move with him. Vidaydan did his school study at Bihar and Barmer. Detha in his school years was poor in English language and had to face many embarrassing moments. In Barmer, while competing with another student Narsingh Rajpurohit, he realised that he wants to be a writer. His brother then transferred to Jodhpur where Detha studied in Durbar School. His grandson Levin Detha is a famous chemistry teacher in Jodhpur Vijaydan Detha considers Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay as his first inspirer. He is equally good fan of Chekhov. In beginning he was critical of Tagore but after reading Tagore's Stripatra he became fan of Tagore.
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