Mannu Bhandari
Writer
Mannu Bhandari (1931–2021) is one of the most significant writers of the Hindi Nayi Kahaani movement. The characters in her stories belong to the small but rapidly modernising middle class of the 1950s and 60s, emerging from and into a tradition but breaking away from it in favour of new ideas. Her stories depict the tricky negotiations of the middle-class woman, who had begun to enter the workplace for the first time, demanding for herself education, employment and individuality. The resultant destabilisation of nearly all traditional norms of gender roles, marriage, and motherhood became fertile ground for Bhandari. Bhandari’s long career spans multiple novels, short story collections and film and stage scripts.
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