Narendra Kohli (नरेन्द्र कोहली)(born January 6, 1940,
Sialkot) is a
Hindi-language author. He is credited with reinventing the ancient form of epic writing in modern prose.
Life
Narendra Kohli was born to Parmananda Kohli and Vidyavanti in
Punjab province of
British India.डॉ. कृष्णकुमार ,
लेखक करता है परकाया प्रवेश , Madhumati:Rajasthan Sahitya Acadami, (2006).http://www.lakesparadise.com/madhumati/show_artical.php?id=648 His first school was the Dev Samaj High School in
Lahore. Then he attended the Ganda Singh High School in
Sialkot for a few months. In 1947, after the
partition of India, the family moved to
Jamshedpur (
Bihar). He resumed his schooling in third grade at Dhatkidih Lower Primary school. He spent fourth to seventh grade (1949–53) at New Middle English school.
Urdu was the medium of instruction for all subjects except English, which was limited to reading and writing. From eighth to eleventh grade, he attended KMPM High School in Jamshedpur. He selected the science stream in high school. The medium of instruction was Urdu till this point.
For higher education, he joined the Jamshedpur Co-operative College. He took the IA exams in 1959 from
Bihar University with Compulsory English, Compulsory
Hindi, Psychology, Logic, and special Hindi as his subjects. He completed his BA (Hons.) in...
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