Some books are easy to read, but hard to review.
This one isn’t Nirmal Verma’s biography — it’s a journey through the influences that shaped his writing.
@vineetgill peels each layer with care, placing Nirmal in dialogue with other voices.
I was interviewed by Gautam Choubey for his show Likhawat on Sansad TV, where we discussed my favourite and what seems to have become my only subject: Nirmal Verma: https://t.co/ENNffkYc39
निर्मल वर्मा ‘नई कहानी’ आंदोलन के जाने-माने लेखक थे। उनकी कहानियाँ जैसे ‘परिंदे’ और उपन्यास ‘वे दिन’ ने हिंदी साहित्य को नई दिशा दी। @vineetgill की किताब उनके जीवन और लेखन के गहरे पहलुओं को सामने लाती है।
'Likhawat'
@GautamChoubey9#Literature
Watch : https://t.co/WbGMJohge5
@thewire_in asked me about a book that moved me. "Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life in Literature", a wondrous literary biography by Vineet Gill. Begins in the style of an experimental novel with Verma’s death, and offers striking insights about world literature. Link below
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'Here and Here After' on Great Hindi Writer Nirmal Verma is a joy to read - The deeper you delve into Nirmal Verma's literary world through Vineet's eyes, the clearer it becomes just how discerning a reader @vineetgill truly is. Superb accomplishment.
@vineetgill and I in conversation on crafting characters in fiction and in biography. This evening from 6 pm onwards. At Oxford Bookstores in Connaught Place, Delhi. Free and open to the public.
Join us for a discussion CRAFTING LIVES with @_saikatmajumdar author of “The Remains of the Body” in conversation with author & editor @vineetgill on Friday, 12th July 6 pm at Oxford Bookstore, Connaught Place. @PenguinIndia
"V.S. Naipaul was always haunted by the feeling that he could have been a failure." In which @vineetgill writes about repetition,the art of writing and the myth of Naipaul.
I have written an essay on V.S. Naipaul, apropos of Sanjay Krishnan's book 'V.S. Naipaul's Journeys'. It has been published in Amit Chaudhuri's journal, Literary Activism. Available here: https://t.co/vYuEafAWz9
‘Naipaul understood that the difficulties and failures inherent to writing are not meant to be overcome; they are to be accepted, as one accepts a chronic health condition’ - Vineet Gill in Literary Activism on the novelist and a new book on him: https://t.co/o2M9jfc7k2