Arun Joshi
Arun Joshi (1939-1993) was an Indian writer. He is known for his novels The Strange Case of Billy Biswas and The Apprentice. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel The Last Labyrinth in 1982.[1][2] His novels bear contemporary characters who are urban, English speaking and disturbed for some reason.[3]
"The shallowness of middle class society is not for him a point of rhetoric, intended to show off his own enlightened superiority, but a theme to be explored with actual concern.[4]""
Life
Arun Joshi was raised by a family of eminent scholars in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.[5] During his time in the United States, he received a B.S. degree from Kansas University and an M.S. degree from M.I.T. His experiences in the U.S. are a recurring motif in many of his works.
On returning to India, he began working at Delhi Cloth & General Mills, North India's first textile factory and among the earliest joint-stock companies of the country, as chief of its recruitment and training department. He married Rukmini Lal, a daughter of a shareholder. He resigned from D.C.M. in 1965 while continuing to be the executive director of Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources in Delhi.[6]
Arun Joshi lived a reclusive life and generally avoided publicity. He got his work published locally by Orient Paperbacks. Even though multi-national publishers like Penguin had entered the publishing space in India, Arun Joshi stuck with Orient all his life.[7]
The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
The Strange Case of Billy Biswas was written in 1971[8] and tells the story of a US returned Indian named Billy Biswas.
Works
Novels
- The Foreigner, 1968
- The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, 1971
- The Apprentice, 1974
- The Last Labyrinth, 1981
- The City and the River, 1990
Short stories
- The Survivor and Other Stories, 1975.
- The Only American From Our Village.
- The Homecoming.
Other
- Shri Ram: A Biography, with Khushwant Singh, 1968.
- Laia Shri Ram: A Study in Entrepreneurship and Industrial Management, 1975.
External links
References
- ^ ADITYA SUDARSHAN. "The strange case of Arun Joshi". The Hindo. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
- ^ Sudarshan, Aditya (2 March 2013). "The strange case of Arun Joshi". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ SUDARSHAN, ADITYA. "The strange case of Arun Joshi". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
- ^ SUDARSHAN, ADITYA. "The strange case of Arun Joshi". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
- ^ Dr. Anjan Kumar. "Existential Angst in The Novels of Arun Joshi". Asvameg. Retrieved Aug 17, 2016.
- ^ Dr. Shankar Kumar. "The Novels of Arun Joshi A Critical Study". Atlantic. Retrieved Aug 17, 2016.
- ^ SUDARSHAN, ADITYA. "The strange case of Arun Joshi". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
- ^ SUDARSHAN, ADITYA. "The strange case of Arun Joshi". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-05-26.