SK Subject File No. 9

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Name of the Collection	Suresh Kohli
Folder/Categories	II.Subject Files-1953-2016
Sub-folder/Sub-category	B. Mulk Raj Anand, 1970 � 2005
File No. /Acc. No.	9
Abstract	Correspondence between Mulk Raj Anand and Suresh Kohli regarding creative criticism and Mulk Raj Anand�s interview published in Times Weekly, proposal of featuring his select short stories on Doordarshan and its subsequent rejection. Includes letters regarding filming and rights of his short story �Lajwanti�, seminar on his novel Across the Black Waters in Imperial War Museum, making and commissioning of a film on Mulk Raj Anand for Sahitya Akademi. Also, includes correspondence about the affairs of Lokayata Community Centre, Doordarshan�s rejection of the proposal about making a film on Mulk Raj Anand, making Suresh Kohli as one of the three member committee of Literary Executors of Mulk Raj Anand�s literary remains, postponing the idea of making a telefilm on Death of a Hero, etc.
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Keywords	Lokayata; Apology for Heroism; Bankim Chandra Chatterji; Sarat Chatterji; Premchand; Modern and Contemporary Indian fiction; Lost Child; Prague International Festival; MARG; The Lover; Arnold- Heinemann; Saros Cowasjee; In Praise of Hoysala Art; Yoke of Pity; Orient paperbacks; Across the Black Water; Annie Haider; Untouchable; Doordarshan; Farukh Dhondy; R.K. Narayan; Hero; Lajwanti; Rajesh Mehra; Arun Mehra; Fascism; Alastair Niven; Chinese art; BBC; Khandala; Sahitya Akademi; Eleanor Zalliot; O. P. Ghai; Nehru; Krishna Menon; World Peace Council; Indra Nath Chowdhury; Nehru Centre; Max Muller Bhawan; ICCR; Hitler; Bhaskar Ghosh; Arjun Singh; J. N. Dixit; K. Satchidanandan; Basu Bhattacharya
Start Date “Period From”	Feb-71
End Date “Period To”	Aug-02
Extent	151 pp.
Item type/Format	Handwritten & Typed
Language	English
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Donor	Chetana Kohli
Donation Date	Februrary 2021
Custodian	Ashoka Archives of Contemporary India, Ashoka University, Sonepat (India)
Right/Copyright	Donor