Asad Zaidi on the demise of Gyanranjan. "How Gyanranjan shaped the world of Hindi literature."
Gyanranjan, Doodhnath Singh, Kashinath Singh, Ravindra Kalia, Mahendra Bhalla, and Vijay Mohan Singh brought with them a spirit of rebellion. Their language was sharp, irreverent, unostentatious and charmingly cynical. Emerging tensions in social and interpersonal relationships, feelings of abandonment, disillusionment, loneliness of the younger generation, existential angst and frustration emerge as major themes. All this was a major change from the dull realism of earlier generations of Gandhians and progressives, the abstract, airy and artificial prose of Sachchidanand Vatsyayan “Agyeya” as well as the arthouse lyricism of writers such as Nirmal Verma.
That part about Nirmal Verma is spot on!
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