The national level literary magazine ‘Parikatha’ has included Pankaj Swamy a story writer from Jabalpur among important story writers of the twenty-first century.
The literary magazine has included 24 selected Hindi story writers from across the country in this list of important story writers.
Renowned critic Dr. Nisha Tiwari has termed the literary works of Pankaj Swamy as a realistic stories.
There is no place for imaginative thoughts in his stories, she said.
Comparing his works to the intensity of flow of water in river Narmada, she said there is no place for the dark imaginative phases of images and symbols and the sentences keep waving in the cool simple flow of river Narmada.
Pankaj Swamy in his stories stands on the solid rock of reality and deeply experiences the local scenarios around, she said.
His general knowledge is excellent, hence his sensibilities also come out after being connected with knowledge, she said.
While releasing the list of important story writers, ‘Parikatha’ has said that the story writers have written in a way that gives strength to the values of humanity and the literary works of the story writers is based on concern for society, reality and content.
The magazine has clearly said about such story writers that they have not made any effort to establish contacts and relations and stay away from self-promotion or self-advertisement.
The story writers did not worry much about their stories being discussed or not, they just wrote quietly and wrote important and meaningfully.
Parikatha has termed the works of Pankaj Swamy and other story writers as the achievement and wealth of this era.
