Hyderabad Lit Fest to be virtual
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2021 edition of the annual fest scheduled to be held from January 22 to 24
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2021 edition of the annual fest scheduled to be held from January 22 to 24
The 2021 edition of the annual Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF), which is scheduled to be held from January 22 to 24, will be completely virtual.
In December, the Bangalore Literature Festival opted to have authors at the venue and live stream the sessions, and the forthcoming Jaipur Literature Festival 2021 is also poised to be a virtual one.
Amitav Ghosh, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Devdutt Pattanaik, Aakash Singh, Devaki Jain, Harsh Mander, Parmesh Shahani, NK Singh and Kobad Ghandy are among the authors who will be participating.
The Place of Love is Uncertain : Two Poems by Vinod Kumar Shukla
You find speech idioms merging into his poetry, making it a fascinating occasion for a translator to innovate.
Vinod Kumar Shukla. Photo: Youtube screengrab
Translator’s note
Vinod Kumar Shukla, the beloved Hindi writer and poet from Chhattisgarh, turns 84 today. Many know him through his novel,
Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi (âA Window Live in a Wallâ, translated by Satti Khanna) that won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999. A recluse by choice, Shukla has written on disappearing worlds, including how trees have disappeared from cities. Since mere nostalgia is passive, Shukla transforms it into dream in his fiction. He is also a poet with a rare idiom. For instance he writes in this poem (in my translation below), âThe place of love is uncertain / Here, even there-will-be-no-one has no place.â You find speech idioms merging into his poetry, making it a fascinating occasion for a transl
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