Neelum Saran Gour
Prolific Indian novelist, short-story writer, and academic based in Allahabad; author of Requiem in Raga Janki and multiple other novels, essays, and critical works, and winner of the Hindu Fiction Prize and Sahitya Akademi Award.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 43min
Neelum Saran Gour, "Requiem in Raga Janki" (Penguin Viking, 2018)
Neelum Saran Gour, prolific novelist and award-winning scholar from Allahabad, reimagines the life of Hindustani singer Janki Bai Ilahabadi. The conversation traces Janki Bai’s rise from hardship to musical fame. It explores music lore, the social world of early 20th-century north India, language choices, and the novel’s vivid sense of place.
