In January 1996 Upendranath Ashk, the well known and controversial Hindi author passed away at the age of eighty six. Ashk left behind him a phenomenally large oeuvre, comprising over a hundred volumes of fiction, poetry, memoir, criticism and translation. The career of this prolific writer had begun in the early thirties and spanned a momentous sixty year period, which saw tremendous social and political change in India. Ashk's work distinguished itself not just ...
