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Mohan Rakesh (Madan Mohan Guglani) was born on 8 January, 1925 in Amritsar, Punjab, India, is an Indian writer (1925–1972). Discover Mohan Rakesh'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 47 years old?

Popular As Madan Mohan Guglani
Occupation Novelist, playwright
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 8 January, 1925
Birthday 8 January
Birthplace Amritsar, Punjab, India
Date of death 3 December, 1972
Died Place Delhi, India
Nationality India

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1925

Mohan Rakesh (मोहन राकेश; 8 January 1925 – 3 December 1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani ("New Story") literary movement of the Hindi literature in India in the 1950s.

He was born as Madan Mohan Guglani on 8 January 1925 in Amritsar in the Punjab Province of British India.

His father was a lawyer who died when he was sixteen.

Mohan Rakesh hailed from a Sindhi family.

His father migrated from Sindh to Punjab long ago.

He did his M.A. in English and Hindi from Punjab University, Lahore.

1947

He started his career as a postman at Dehradun from 1947 to 1949, after that he shifted to Delhi, but found a teaching job in Jalandhar, Punjab for a short while.

Subsequently, he remained Head of the Hindi department at DAV College, Jalandhar (Guru Nanak Dev University) and taught Hindi at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla for two years before coming back to teaching Jalandhar.

In Shimla, he had Ruskin Owen Bond among his students.

1957

Eventually, he resigned from his job in 1957 to write full-time.

1958

He wrote the first modern Hindi play, Ashadh Ka Ek Din (One Day in Aashad) (1958), which won a competition organised by the Sangeet Natak Akademi.

He made significant contributions to the novel, the short story, travelogue, criticism, memoir and drama.

Mohan Rakesh's Aadhe-adhure is one of the most significant plays about urbanmiddle class family and poignantly projects the transition of values in the changing urban scenario in India.

His plays include Ashadh Ka Ek Din (One Day in Aashad) (1958), played a major role in reviving Hindi theatre in the 1960s and Adhe Adhure (The Incomplete Ones or Halfway ouse) (1969).

1960

His debut play Ashadh Ka Ek Din was first performed by Kolkata-based Hindi theatre group Anamika, under director Shyamanand Jalan (1960) and subsequently by Ebrahim Alkazi at National School of Drama Delhi in 1962, which established Mohan Rakesh as the first modern Hindi playwright.

His plays continue to be performed and receive acclaim worldwide.

His second marriage in 1960 too ended soon.

1962

He also briefly edited Hindi literary journal Sarika, from 1962 to 1963.

His novels are Andhere Band Kamare (Closed Dark Rooms) and Na Aane Wala Kal (The Tomorrow That Never Comes).

1963

However, in his third marriage to Anita Aulakh in 1963, he had found love.

At the time of the marriage Anita was 21 year old.

After his death, she continued to live in Delhi and, now in her seventies, lives in East of Kailash neighbourhood.

1968

He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968.

1969

The first film was Uski Roti made in 1969 based on the short story of the same name.

For this film, Mohan Rakesh wrote the dialogs.

1971

In July 1971, he received the Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship for research on 'The Dramatic Word'.

The second film was Ashadh Ka Ek Din made in 1971, based on a play by Mohan Rakesh.

1972

However, he could not complete it and died on 3 January 1972.

2002

Her autobiographical work, Satrein Aur Satrein, was first serialized in the Hindi magazine Sarika, and later published in 2002.

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(Left incomplete, later completed by Kamleshwar)

Two of his literary works were adapted by the filmmaker Mani Kaul.

2005

In 2005, this very writing process of the play, and Mohan Rakesh's diary, writings, and letters about the play, were recreated in a play titled Manuscript, by a Delhi theatre group.

2010

One Day in the Season of Rain, Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker's authorised English translation of Ashadh Ka Ek Din, premiered at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States in 2010 and traveled to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region 3) in 2011.

Lahron Ke Rajhans (The Swans of the Waves), a play of Mohan Rakesh about an ancient Buddhist tale on the renunciation of the Buddha, and its aftereffects on his close family, was first written as a short story and later turned into a radio play for All India Radio Jalandhar, and broadcast under the title Sundri, though his struggle over different versions of the play lasted for nearly 20 years.

Prominent Indian directors Om Shivpuri, Shyamanand Jalan, Arvind Gaur and Ram Gopal Bajaj directed this play.