more-inPopular Hindi novelist Ved Prakash Sharma, counted among the highest-selling Hindi writers in the country, died on Friday in Meerut. While literary critics saw his writing as “pulp fiction,” Sharma saw himself as part of the tradition of detective fiction which was started by great Indian writers like Devki Nandan Khatri, Ibn-e-Safi and Ved Prakash Kamboj. Mr. Sharma had also written scripts for about half-a-dozen Hindi films and a few of his novels were made into films. In the interview he also asked, “ Why my writing is categorised as “pulp” fiction only because it is written on rough paper. Sharma was like a celebrity and remained one of the highest-selling Hindi writers for several years.

Source: The Hindu February 18, 2017 21:33 UTC