Böcker av Ved Rahi

Ved Rahi (born 22 May 1933) is an Indian author predominantly writing in Dogri language. He is also credited for screenplay and dialogues of various Hindi Bollywood films and TV serials. He directed the Hindi film Veer Savarkar (2001), a bio-epic on the life of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.¿¿Rahi published various short stories in Dogri language and along with Narendra Khajuria and Madan Mohan Sharma, is considered as noted Dogri writer of modern times.[1][2]His books have been translated to various other Indian languages. Translation of Lal Ded in Sindhi language (by Sarita Sharma as Lal Ded (2015) and by Rattan Lal Shant as Lal Ded (2015)) and of Aale in Kashmiri language (by Abdul Gani Beg Athar as Lakhakar Yin Vaapas (2010)) have also received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in Sindhi and Kashmiri categories respectively."Andhi Surang" is Ved Rahi's first novel published in Urdu translated by himself.

Life, O Life is a big collage, as big as life itself. There are word-pictures in it - poems one may call them - some vibrant, some grey and sombre and yet some others, dark, the shade of a bleak night. Singly, each of the poems is complete by itself, tellingly evoking an aspect of life that might be downright mundane or subtly profound. But they - all 113 of them - ring true; there is not a false note in any of them. It has to be, since the poet does not feel constrained by any set convention, nor follows the rutted path. In simple words he says what likes to say, in the manner that he likes to say. Life, O Life presents, in translation, the world-view of a veteran Dogri author and poet, Ved Rahi.