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Yashpal (1903-1976) began to write while serving a life sentence for his participation, as a comrade of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, in the armed struggle for India's independence. Yashpal's short stories, novels, essays, a play and the memoirs of his revolutionary days earned him, for his outspokenness, the wrath of the establishment on one hand, and threats to his life from the orthodox Hindus, on the other. He died in 1976 while writing the fourth volume of his reminiscences.
Anand, a print and broadcast journalist, has translated the short stories of Yashpal into English and French, as well as Yashpal's two major novels Divya and Jhootha Sach into English. He lives in North America.
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