Jayant kripalani biography examples
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J. B. Kripalani
Indian politician
Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani (11 November 1888 – 19 March 1982), popularly known as Acharya Kripalani, was an Indian politician, noted particularly for holding the presidency of the Indian National Congress during the transfer of power in 1947 and the husband of Sucheta Kripalani. Kripalani was an environmentalist, mystic and independence activist who was long a Gandhian socialist. He himself founded the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party in 1951, that merged with the Socialist Party (India) to form the Praja Socialist Party the following year. Later, he joined the economically right wing Swatantra Party later in life.
He grew close to Gandhi and at one point, he was one of Gandhi's most ardent disciples. He had served as the General Secretary of the INC for almost a decade. He had experience working in the field of education and was made the president to rebuild the INC. Disputes between the party and the Government over procedural matters affect
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I am an exponent of the art of gulp fiction: Actor Jayant Kripalani
Khandaan
,Ji Mantriji
and is now authoring books? His second book, published by Readomania has just been launched.Cantilevered Tales
is a story about people, their quirks and why they become who they become.Jayant Kripalani talks about his new book and his passion for writing in an exclusive interview with Sutapa Basu.
What has inspired you to move from scripts to writing books?
After a bit of a health scare, I quit smoking 60 cigarettes a day, quit drinking, started walking.No fags, no booze, no red meat. I HAD to do something. So I took up an old TV script and a few months later, New Market Tales was launched in Kolkata.
You have been a student of English Literature. Do you believe writing books satisfies your desire for literary writing?
As I say in the introduction of Cantilevered Tales, I write neither literary fiction nor pulp fiction. I am an exponen
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Jayant Kripalani – New Market Tales
Jayant Kripalani is an Indian film, television and stage actor, director and trainer. And now, with New market Tales,a short story writer. His movies include Trikaal, Janne Tu Ya Janne Na, 3 Idiots. He has acted in TV serials Khandaan, Mr. Mrs and Ji Mantriji, and wrote the screenplay for Shyam Benegal’s film, Well Done Abba.
Insights into a Vanished World
Review bygd Anjana Basu
Old fashioned stories with a beginning, middle and end come at a premium these days. Most are dark twisted flights of language that demand applause for brilliance. And then comes Jayant Kriplani’s New Market Tales which is a nostalgic trip to a time and place that the actor-author was once familiar with in the 1960’s and 70’s. Most of the stories are linked to Lindsay Street and New Market and the ‘marketayr bachhas’, or children of the shopkeepers – some of whom were obviously real life people and those familiar with the Market will be