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Place of Birth: Bhanpura, Madhya Pradesh, India
About Manu Bhandari
- thumb Mannu Bhandari (born 3 April 1931) is an Indian author, whose work dates up to late 1950s - early 1960s.
- She is most known for her two Hindi novels, Aapka Banti and Mahabhoj.
- She is often credited as one of the pioneers of the Nayi Kahaani Movement, a Hindi literary movement initiated by authors including Nirmal Verma, Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar, etc.
- Starting in the 1950s, a newly independent India was going through societal transformations like urbanization and industrialization.
- This demanded new debates, new opinions and new points of view, provided by those part of the Nayi Kahaani movement, including Bhandari.
- Narratives and stories mostly dealt with the relationship between sexes, gender inequality and equality as a new class of working and educated women had emerged then. Bhandari is one of the post-Independence writers who portray women under a new light, as independent and intellectual individuals.
- Through the subject matter of her narratives, Bhandari highlights the struggles and difficulties women have constantly encountered in the past.
- Sexual, emotional, mental and economic exploitation had placed women in an extremely weak position in Indian society.
- Her female characters in her stories are portrayed as strong, independent individuals, breaking old habits and emerging and creating an image of a'new woman'.
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