Jainendra

JAINENDRA KUMAR was born on 2 January 1905 in Kauriyaganj in Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh). He left college to join the Independence Movement in 1921, going to jail three times in the next few years. He started writing short stories around 1926 and published his fi rst novel Parakh in 1929. It was followed by classics like Sunita (1935), Tyagpatra (1937), Kalyani, Sukhda, Vyateet, Vivart, Muktibodh (1965), Anantar, Anamswami and Dashark (1985). He also published ten volumes of short stories and an equal number of volumes of philosophical essays, most noteworthy being ‘Samay aur Hum’ and ‘Prastut Prashna’. He was showered with awards and honours, including the Anuvrat Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship and the Padma Bhushan. He also represented India at the United Nations in 1979