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Phaniswar Nath 'Renu', the journalist-writer, was an insider who told stories and reported on the backwardness of his home state of Bihar..
They thoroughly interrogated the rural and the urban, the complexities of caste and creed, and the multiple dimensions of history and mythology.
Phanishwar Nath Renu
Indian writer and activist (1921–1977)
Phanishwar Nath Renu | |
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| Born | (1921-03-04)4 March 1921 Araria, Bihar, India |
| Died | 11 April 1977(1977-04-11) (aged 56) |
| Occupation | Novelist, memoirist |
| Notable works | Maila Anchal (The Soiled Linen, 1954) |
| Spouses | Rekha, Padma and Latika Renu |
| Children | Kavita Roy, Padam Parag Venu, Navneeta, Aparajit, Dakshineshwar Prasad Rai |
| Father | Sheela Nath Mandal |
Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu'[1] (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era.
He is the author of Maila Anchal, which after Premchand's Godaan, is regarded as the most significant Hindi novel.[2] Phanishwar Nath (Mandal) Renu was born on 4 March 1921 in a small village Aurahi Hingna near Simraha railway station in Bihar.
The mandal community of Bihar to which Renu belonged constitutes an under-privileged social gr