Usha Priyamvada (officially Usha Nilsson) made a name for herself as a fiction writer in Hindi in the 1960s, at the same time as writers like Mannu Bhandari and Krishna Sobti.

An excerpt from ‘Won’t You Stay, Radhika?’, by Usha Priyamvada. Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell.

Recently turned 92, Usha Priyamvada remains one of Hindi literature’s most long-established and celebrated writers, with her newest novel, Arkadipt, releasing just this year by Rajkamal Prakashan.

American translator Daisy Rockwell on introducing Usha Priyamvada’s ‘Fifty-Five Pillars, Red Walls’ — a novel that had fell by the wayside — to a new generation of readers in English ...

This is the story of Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein, a novel written almost 60 years ago by the wonderful Hindi writer Usha Priyamvada. It became an instant success, was made into a TV serial and ...

Usha Priyamvada is the writer of ‘ennui’—that is how Daisy Rockwell, the American translator of South Asian literature, describes the Hindi writer’s 1967 novel ...

Usha Priyamvada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deevaren has attained cult status over the years. (HT Photo) Perhaps, it was because several seniors of the smart set in our school in Shillong were ...

Home fires: Review of’ ‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’ by Usha Priyamvada, trs Daisy Rockwell The novel, written 60 years ago, could be the story of any young, urban, middle-class woman today ...