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This interview is recorded in September 2014 during "Kahani Punjab" Kahani Goshti at Hotel Mehar Dalhousie by Parminderjit Singh.
Manmohan Bawa is a well known writer, painter and a cartographer from Punjab. He has written novels, anthologies of short stories, travelogues, travel guides in addition to publishing trekking maps of some Himalayan regions.
Bawa was born in 1932 in Vairowal Bawian, district Tarn-Taran. Passing grade 10 in 1947, Bawa went on to get a Master of Art degree in history. Bawa expressed interest in art and travelling from a young age. Due to very hard financial family circumstances, he started working as an apprentice artist at the age of 16. He worked as a graphic artist for 25 years in different presses and firms, including an American firm, beginning in 1948 at a salary of Rs 50 per month. He eventually got tired of working and left the job in 1973.
Along with his brothers, Bawa purchased a hotel to make a living and to live a free and full life, pursuing other interests: painting, traveling, trekking in the Himalayas and writing. Though his first book of short stories was published in 1962, Bawa only started writing seriously at the age of 55. His interest in writing being history and mythology, his first book of short stories, Ajat Sundari, was published in 1990. Along with history the themes of his writing were adivasis and dalits. He published several travelogues, short story collections, novels in Punjabi and one book on history and Indian mythology.
Collections of short stories
ਚਿੱਟੇ ਘੋੜੇ ਦਾ ਸਵਾਰ
ਕਾਲਾ ਕਬੂਤਰ
ਅਜਾਤ ਸੁੰਦਰੀ
ਇੱਕ ਰਾਤ
ਨਰ ਬਲੀ
ਬਾਦਬਾਨੀ ਕਿਸ਼ਤੀ
Novels
1857 ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦਿੱਲੀ/1857 Delhi Delhi
ਯੁੱਧ ਨਾਦ/Yudh Naad
ਯੁਗ ਅੰਤ/Yug Ant
ਅਫ਼ਗਾਨਿਸਤਾਨ ਦੀ ਉਰਸੁਲਾ / Afghanistan Di Urusula
ਕਾਲ ਕਥਾ/Kal-Kathaa
Travelogues and Travel Guides[edit]
Tuseen Vi Chalo Mere Naal
ਅਣਡਿੱਠੇ ਰਸਤੇ, ਉੱਚੇ ਪਰਬਤ
ਇੱਕ ਪਰਬਤ ਤੇ ਦੋ ਦਰਿਆ
ਪਥ ਹੀ ਮੰਜ਼ਿਲ ਹੈ
ਜੰਗਲ ਜੰਗਲ ਪਰਬਤ ਪਰਬਤ
ਆਓ ਚਲੀਏ ਬਰਫ਼ਾਂ ਦੇ ਪਾਰ
20,000 ਮੀਲ ਲੰਬੀ ਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਲ ਯਾਤਰਾ
Adventures in the Snows
Adventures in the Mountains
A Touring and Trekking Guide to the Indian Himalayas
Himachal Pradesh
Other Works
ਭਾਰਤੀ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਮਿਥਿਹਾਸ

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