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Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas on Friday paid tribute to renowned journalist and author Manohar Shyam Joshi on his death anniversary.
Vishwas, who is himself a well-known poet, took to Twitter to post his tribute to the Sahitya Akademi Award winner.
“Remembering Hindi language’s illustrious storyteller Manohar Shyam Joshi on his death anniversary. He left an indelible impression on our minds with family dramas in the early days of Doordarshan such as ‘Buniyad’, ‘Kakaji Kahin’, ‘Mungeri Lal ke Hasin Sapne’, Hum Log’, etc,” wrote Vishwas.
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हम सब के मन-मस्तिष्क पर स्थाई छाप छोड़ने वाले दूरदर्शन के शुरुआती पारिवारिक धारावाहिकों, ‘बुनियाद’ ‘काकाजी कहिन’, ‘मुंगेरी लाल के हसीन सपने’, ‘हम लोग’ इत्यादि के लेखक, हिंदी के बड़े कहानीकार मनोहर श्याम जोशी को उनकी पुण्यतिथि पर याद।🙏 pic.twitter.com/iI8Mn2XbZi
— Dr Kumar Vishvas (@DrKumarVishwas) March 30, 2018
Born on 9 August 1933, Joshi was the writer of immensely popular soap operas that were telecast on the national channel during the 1980s and the early 90s.
The 1982 series ‘Hum Log’ and 1987’s ‘Buniyad’ are still hailed as the greatest TV serials made in the history of Indian television. ‘Hum Log’ enjoys the distinction of being the first TV serial and soap opera aired in India.
Besides TV, Joshi also wrote Hindi dialogues for two of Kamal Haasan’s films – 1989’s ‘Apoorva Sagodharargal’ and 2000’s ‘Hey Ram’.
In 2005, he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel ‘Kyaap’.
Joshi passed away on 30 March 2006. The then prime minister Manmohan Singh condoled his death stating that he was “undoubtedly one of the most influential writers and commentators in Hindi in recent times”.
“By the time he died in 2006, he was recognised as the first and the most innovative writer of Hindi,” Khushwant Singh wrote about Joshi in 2009.
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