Rajendra Yadav

Rajendra Yadav

The great fiction writer and the editor of ‘Hans’ Rajendra Yadav was born in Agra in Uttar Pradesh on 28th Augustа 1929. He did his matriculation in 1944 in Meetrut. He completed his BA degree in 1949 from Agra College, Agra and later completed M.A. in Hindi from Agra University in 1951. From 1954 to 1964 he lived in Kolkata. He founded Akshar Prakashan in 1964 when he came Delhi after leaving Kolkata. He is the editor of ‘Hans’ from 1986 that completed 25 years of publication. He was one of the board members of Prasar Bharti in 1999-2001.

The first story ‘Pratihinsa’ of Rajendra Yadav was published in ‘Karmayogi’ monthly.а His first novel, Pret Bolte Hain was published in 1951 which was later renamed as Sara Akash. It is sold more than one million copies and has been translated into several languages of the world. Basu Chatterjee made a flim ‘Sara Akash’ based on it 1969 and film itself become very success. Rajendra Yadav is among some fiction writer who is responsible for the ‘Nai Kahani Aandolan’.

He wrote several famous stroies. Some of them are: ‘Jahan Lakshmi Kaid Hai’, ‘Chhote Chhote Tajmahal’, ‘Abhimanue ki Aatmahatya’.

‘Ukhre Huey Log’, ‘Kulta’, ‘Shaah aur Maat’, ‘Ek Inch Muskaan’ (with Mannu Bhadari) are some of the great novels he wrote. He has writen some great memoirs namely, ‘Mud Mud ke Dekhta Hoon’, ‘We Devta Nahin Hain’, ‘Aadmi Ki Nigah Mein Aurat’. He is also wrote a great translator and he translated writers like Turgenev, Chekhov, Lermontov, Camus. In 2001 he wrote one essay ‘Hona Sona Ek Khubsurat Dushman Ke Saath’ that creates lot of controversy.