Rajinder singh bedi biography of albert

He would have been a hundred years old this year. But the writer Rajinder Singh Bedi, seems to have comfortably escaped the critical stereotyping that has marred (and continues to mar) the work of his contemporaries: Manto, caught between Partition and sex; Krishan Chander, a prisoner of his commitment to socialist realism and class struggle; and Ismat Chughtai, pigeonholed as a chronicler of the women of the Indian Muslim middle class.

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There are many reasons to read and reread Bedi’s slim but compact oeuvre on the centenary of his birth. A contemporary of numerous comrades from the Progressive Writers Association (PWA), there is much that unites him with – and distinguishes him from – his illustrious peers.

Bedi’s oeuvre fell short of the sheer prodigiousness that became a hallmark of Manto, Chander and Chughtai.

Over almost seventy years, Bedi wrote about eighty short stories spread across eight collections, one novella and two collections of plays. Yet, he has achieved literary i