But for the leftist clique of our country, Nirmal Verma (like Ajneya, too, even more certainly) would have been awarded a Nobel in literature! The animus, jealousy, etc. of the influential leftists blocked it.
It was INC (when Manmohan Singh was PM) that had sent Nirmal Verma's name as a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Conservative critics used to call Verma westernized since he had spent a considerable part of his life in Europe
