Dusre Shabdo mein, 1988 (text in Hindi): https://books.google.co.in/books?id=hCm-kx1ImjEC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=Aadi,+Ant+aur+Aarambh+nirmal+verma&source=bl&ots=ggRES0qv9E&sig=hIP1ko28Lf4-idMa9g1tvGBasG8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB5ZGG-ojfAhVFVH0KHVcDCTE4ChDoATAIegQIBBAB#v=onepage&q=Aadi%2C%20Ant%20aur%20Aarambh%20nirmal%20verma&f=false Dhalan se Utarte Hue, 1985 (text in Hindi): http://hindisamay.com/vividh/dhalan-se-utarte-hua-2.html Ithihas, Smriti aur Akanksha, 1991 (text in Hindi): https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LUCd3s8rmEcC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Itihaas,+Smriti+aur+Akanksha+nirmal+verma&source=bl&ots=4WoCN-BJ5x&sig=3pWByVMkDlLhfXBO3tWaiBs-tTk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFu-a8_YjfAhVFTn0KHeiKApMQ6AEwDnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=Itihaas%2C%20Smriti%20aur%20Akanksha%20nirmal%20verma&f=false Choosing to Belong, Nirmal Verma’s Post-colonial Modernity: http://journals.du.ac.in/humsoc/pdf/ANUSHREE%20Nirmal%20Verma.pdf Kala ka Jokhim, 1981 (text in Hindi): https://books.google.co.in/books?id=CrCzvrMQBoAC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=Kala+ka+Jokhim+nirmal+verma&source=bl&ots=kfmqgO7xpF&sig=H9npRAHBow2_lTvKdGm55EWEZYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj07IGU_ojfAhXSSH0KHXuABh04ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=Kala%20ka%20Jokhim%20nirmal%20verma&f=false Sarjana Patra ki Sahyatri, 2005 (text in Hindi): https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zypHNEQVW7YC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Sarjana-Path+ke+Sahyatri+nirmal+verma&source=bl&ots=Pc2HqJcg9T&sig=jS6F8aWstI_dcQZ43FbuMPmX7HE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicgPWj_4jfAhWLdH0KHS7pBy44ChDoATAOegQIARAB#v=onepage&q=Sarjana-Path%20ke%20Sahyatri%20nirmal%20verma&f=false Shatabdi Ke dhalte Varshon... Continue Reading →

Maya Darpan is a Hindi film directed by Kumar Shahani in 1972. It is an adaptation of Nirmal Verma’s work. It is a significant work of the parallel cinema movement which started during the 1950s. Maya Darpan is exemplary in its use of cinematic image and cinematic time. Link to watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7dI3_uXGc http://essentialmystery.blogspot.com/2013/11/maya-darpan-structure-is-argument.html

At a young age, Verma became a card-holding member of the Communist Party of India and went to Prague at the invitation of the Czechoslovak Writers’ Union in 1959.The Czechoslovakia that Verma saw in the nine years that followed - the acute poverty, the intellectual censorship, the dishonesties of realpolitik - haunted him for years.... Continue Reading →

Nahi Kahani narratives dealt chiefly with problems between the sexes, especially with the emergence of the working woman. The context was a newly independent, rapidly urbanizing and industrializing India. Independence had solved none of the problems of unemployment or underemployment, housing and petty corruption that plagued the growing—but still small and unprotected—middle class. The style... Continue Reading →