Uday Prakash

Uday Prakash (born 1 January 1952) is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator and short story writer from India.
He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelancer. He has also received several awards for his collection of short stories, "Mohan Das".
Personal life.
Background.
Prakash was born on 1 January 1952, in the backward village of Sitapur, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India. He was raised by and given primary education there by a teacher. He graduated in Science and obtained his master's degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974. From 1975–76 he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU); He was imprisoned as a passionate communist party member. He later lost interest in political ideology.
Career.
In 1978 Prakash taught as an Assistant Professor at JNU, and its Imphal "Center for Post Graduate Studies". In 1980 he left academia, to become Officer-on-Special-Duty with the Madhya Pradesh Department of Culture. At the same time, he was Controlling Officer of the Bhopal Rabindra Bhawan, and assistant editor of "Poorvagraha", a journal of Hindi literary criticism. (He was later critical of the Hindi literary establishment including Ashok Vajpeyi, who he worked for at "Poorvagraha".)
From 1982–90, Prakash worked in New Delhi newspapers; first as a subeditor of the Hindi news weekly "Dinmaan", and later as Assistant Editor of the "Sunday Mail". In 1987 becoming Assistant Professor at the School of Social Journalism (on deputation). In 1990 he joined ITV, (Independent Television), and became head of the "PTI TV" Concept and Script Department. Since 1993, he has been a full-time freelance writer.
Prakash was the editor of the monthly English language magazine "Eminence" (published in Bangalore) until April 2000.
He also participated in the international poetry festivals and seminars.
He has also made documentary films with Sahitya Akademi, like on Dharamvir Bharti. Prakash returned his Sahitya Akademi award in 2015, to protest the murder of rationalist academic M. M. Kalburgi.
Bibliography.
"Peelee Chhatri Wali Ladki" (2001) is Prakash's best known, and longest continuous story. Often called a "novella", Prakash calls it "a long short story" – "Cheeni Baba" will be his "first novel". His 2006 novella "Mohan Das" has been translated into English, seven Indian languages, and adapted by the author for the "Mohandas" screenplay (2009).
Poetry collections
Short story collections
He is most famous as a short story writer, with well-known work like "Warren Hastings ka Saand", and its stage version by director Arvind Gaur.
Non-fiction
Translations by Prakash
Prakash has translated works by many International poets and writers into Hindi, including Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, H. Luis Borges, Paul Éluard, C.P. Cavafy, Adam Jędrzejewski, and Tadeusz Różewicz. Some notable examples:
His translation of Milorad Pavić's novel "Landscape painted with tea" is forthcoming.
Translations of Prakash's work
He is read in all Indian languages, and his translated fiction regularly features in English and German collections, magazines, and complete texts:
Films and media.
'Sahitya Akademi film's on writers
Prakash has produced several films about important Hindi writers such as Ram Vilas Sharma.
In an interview, Varun Grover, the lyricist of the 2015 movie Masaan, recounted that they had wanted to use one of Uday Prakash's compositions titled "Kuch ban jate hain" (from Abootar Abootar). The song was set to music, but at the end was not include in the film. Ultimately another song Tu rail si was used in its place (based on a poem by Dushyant Kumar).