INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the beginning of new Tajik literature
contact with socialist ideas that signify for him light at the end of the tunnel of oppression (which he, however, is unable to reach)
Odina was a poor, lonely, and desperate young man, who in his youth became a victim of treachery, betrayal, oppression, and injustice of
tyrannical rulers.By the time he started writing Odina, Aini had already become established in the Soviet social hierarchy by supporting the
This makes its analysis particularly interesting from the point of view of how politics affected literature in early Soviet Central Asia
being added along the way
history, and a dictionary
He is regarded by Tajiks as Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers in the country's history.In 1934, he attended
the first Soviet Congress of Writers as the Tajik representative
By purporting national identity in his writings, he was able to escape the Soviet censors that quieted many intellectuals in Central Asia
He was a member of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan for 20 years, was awarded the Order of Lenin three times, and was the first president of
the Academy of Sciences of Tajik SSR
After 1992, his writing helped to bind together a sense of Tajik nationalism that survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.Aini's early
poems were about love and nature, but after the national awakening in Tajikistan, his subject matter shifted to the dawn of the new age and
