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Manohar Shyam Joshi (The Father of Indian Soap Operas) was born on 9 August, 1933 in Ajmer, Ajmer State, British India, is a Manohar Shyam Joshi was writer, journalist. Discover Manohar Shyam Joshi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As The Father of Indian Soap Operas
Occupation Writer, essayist, columnist, journalist
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 9 August 1933
Birthday 9 August
Birthplace Ajmer, Ajmer State, British India
Date of death 2006
Died Place New Delhi, India
Nationality India

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His wife is Dr. Bhagwati Joshi

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Children Anupam Joshi Anurag Joshi Ashish Joshi

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1933

Manohar Shyam Joshi (9 August 1933 – 30 March 2006) was a Hindi writer, journalist and scriptwriter, most well known as the writer of Indian television's first soap opera, Hum Log (1984) and his early hits Buniyaad (1987), Kakaji Kahin, a political satire and many experimental novels including Kasap and Kyap, which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Manohar Shyam Joshi was born on 9 August 1933 at Ajmer in Rajasthan, the son of a noted educationist and musicologist belonging to a Kumaoni Brahmin family from Almora, Uttar Pradesh now in the state of Uttarakhand.

He is the father of leading cyber security expert Professor Anupam Joshi.

1982

Made in 1982, when television was still a luxury item for the majority of Indians, the serial dealt with the everyday struggles of the middle-class India, making it an instant hit, especially because every Indian could identify with it.

1987

Another popular creation was Buniyaad (1987–1988), directed by Ramesh Sippy, a serial based around the life a family displaced by the Partition of India in 1947; both went on to deeply influence an entire generation of Indians as well as the Indian television industry.

In the following years he wrote many more long running serials like Mungeri Lal Ke Hasin Sapney, Kakaji Kahin, Humrahi, Zameen Aasman and Gatha.

Manohar Shyam Joshi is also known for his novels which have dealt with topics ranging from love, in Kasap, described as one of the greatest love stories in Hindi, to devastating political satire like Netaji Kahin.

He was a prominent post-modernist authors in modern Hindi literature, as amiably demonstrated by his cult novel Kuru kuru Swaahaa and his novella Hariya Hercules ki Hairaani.

2005

He was awarded the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for Hindi, for his novel Kyap, an allegory of modern India, known for its sensitive portrayal of the Kumaoni traditions of his home state of Uttarakhand.

He had a penchant for romance, subtle comedy and satire alike.

This allowed him to write for cinema on a variety of subjects, like Hey Ram, Appu Raja, Papa Kahte Hain and Brashtachar.

He was a dubbing expert of much ability and dubbed for films like Appu Raja and Hey Ram.

He had a long stint as a journalist in broadcast and the print media.

He worked first with All India Radio, New Delhi, in the Hindi news section and then with the Films Division of India in Mumbai, where he wrote the scripts for many documentaries.

This is when he started writing his famous landmark interviews with ordinary folks, which were serialised in the Sarika magazine.

It was not long before he was handpicked by Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyeya for a new Hindi news magazine Dinaman, being brought out by the Times of India group.

Agyeya was to be the editor and Joshi the assistant editor.

Later, he edited the leading Hindi magazine Saptahik Hindustan, concurrently with the English Weekend Review and, in late 70s, the Morning Echo weekly all brought out by the Hindustan Times.

His journalistic writings have covered a wide range of topics from popular science and scintillating travelogues to astute political analyses.

Until his death, he wrote an opinion column for Outlook Saptahik, Hindi magazine from Outlook India.

2006

He died on 30 March 2006, at the age of 73, in New Delhi, India.

He is survived by his wife, Dr. Bhagwati Joshi, and sons, Anupam Joshi, Anurag Joshi and Ashish Joshi.

Upon his death, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called him "one of the most influential writers and commentators in Hindi in recent times".

According to Khushwant Singh, the eminent author, editor and critic,"By the time he died in 2006, he was recognised as the first and the most innovative writer of Hindi."

He is often called "the Father of Indian Soap Operas" being the writer of India's first television soap opera, Hum Log.