Ganga Prasad Vimal

Ganga Prasad Vimal is an Indian writer known as the father of the Akahani revolution in Hindi literature. Besides that he is a poet, story writer, novelist and translator.

Ganga Prasad Vimal was born in 1939 in Uttarkashi, a Himalayan town in Uttarakhand state. His personality is full of simplicity, expansion and purity like the Himalayas. In most of his writings he has shown his concern towards saving Himalayas and nearby regions and preserving trees as if preserving these would preserve his personality. And for this he has been working continuously from time to time. He was educated in Garhwal, Rishikesh, Allahabad, Yamunanagar and Punjab. He secured top grades, creating a record in his Masters examination and was awarded University Fellowship of Punjab University. Because of being very talented and creative since his childhood, he got expertise in many literary and administrative fields. In 1963 he started teaching in Summer School of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad. In 1965 he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy working on an interdisciplinary subject. In the same year he got married to Kamlesh Anamika on February 5, 1965. He has a son Ashish

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