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Alka Saraogi ( hi, अलका सरावगी; born 17 November 1960) is an Indian novelist and short story writer in the
Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
language. She is a recipient of the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi for her novel ''Kalikatha: Via Bypass''.


Biography

Alka Saraogi was born in a Marwari family of
Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...
i origin in Kolkata. She studied at
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, receiving a PhD for her thesis on the poetry of
Raghuvir Sahay Raghuvir Sahay (9 December 1929 – 30 December 1990) was an Indian Hindi poet, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, movement, Saraogi's novel sweeps across the early optimism of India's freedom to the broken dreams of the present. Jaygovind's life follows the disappointments of the first post-Independence generation, mirrored in the social schisms of America, from the
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to Wikileaks.


Works

* ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsOmpPFrj4 - For Audio Story - Aapki Hansi **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK0KiZgbDqs - For Audio Story * * * * * *


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