Selected Satire – Shrilal Shukla
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Translated for the first time in English by Matt Reeck, this work captures the author’s depth of social analysis willingness to laugh at himself, and deft use of literary forms, making it a valuable contribution to the canon of modern South Asian Literature.
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Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance brings together about 20 satire pieces of eminent Hindi writer, Shrilal Shukla. Most noted for his novel Raag Darbari, for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Award, Shukla also wrote several collections of satirical essays and short stories.
The pieces in this volume include his socio-political and cultural satires, where he caricatures politicians, mocks the bureaucracy (many of whom were his friends) and picks on the so-called developmental schemes of the government. A couple of pieces are also about small-town attitudes and pretensions of intellectuals. The overall flavor is of irreverence to authority and humor drew from everyday occurrences.
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