Harishankar Parsai : Desh Ke Is Daur Mein

This is a critical analysis of Harishankar Parsais satirical essays in this era of our country. Senior critic Vishwanath Tripathi has analyzed them with deep insight. This book holds a unique place among books focused on Parsai. According to Gyanranjan, This is a unique and unparalleled book to date, attempting to understand and uncover Parsais creative world. Tripathi believes that Parsais creator is a man of history, observing everything of his time, painting a picture of his era with discernment. He says that Parsais satire exposes the uncomfortable and the ugly and attempts to create the natural and the beautiful. Vishwanath Tripathi has intimately understood and conveyed to us Parsais work, spanning nearly forty years, in this book, allowing us to understand Parsai in a new way. His understanding of the present, the breadth of his empathy for his characters, his depiction of psychological disorders, the boundless world of subjects in his satirical essays, human compassion, characterization, and his aesthetic sense are analyzed here with quotations that are unparalleled. This is an expanded edition of the book, which includes a biography of Parasai and a lengthy article focusing on his satire as an introduction.