Bhisham Sahni

Bhisham Sahni
Born(1915-08-08)8 August 1915
Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India
(present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Died11 July 2003(2003-07-11) (aged 87)
Delhi, India
Occupation
  • Writer
  • playwright
  • actor
NationalityIndian
Period1955–2003
RelativesBalraj Sahni (brother)
Parikshit Sahni (nephew)
Anand–Sahni family
Political partyCommunist Party of India

Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness"/'Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998,[1] and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. He was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni.

  1. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.