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A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation An excerpt from from ‘A Silent Place’, Vinod Kumar Shukla, translated from the Hindi by Satti Khanna. Vinod Kumar Shukla. Bolu and Koona were unable to see Babulal Maharaj leaving the hotel. They looked around, perplexed. Bolu had the freshly sharpened pencil in his hand. Koona remembered that Babulal Maharaj had asked her to write her name down, and that she had to form the letters well when she wrote down her name for him. “Babulal Maharaj asks people to write down their name after he sharpens pencils for them. I did that. Maybe getting a signature is his way of keeping accounts. Maybe our signatures are a receipt for something,” Koona wondered. ....
Penguin Random House India Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s upcoming novel is historical fiction set in 1901 during the third plague pandemic. The novel, which he has been working on for four years, will also include his drawings and hand-drawn maps, being his attempt at illustrating the world he is creating. Krishnayan Eka Author and journalist Kaajal Oza Vaidya’s novel is among Gujarati literature’s biggest bestsellers. It starts when Krishna has been injured by Jara’s arrow, and offers glimpses into his last moments on earth. The most important women in his life Radha, Rukmini, Satyabhama, and Draupadi, appear before him, and the narrative is interspersed with what they mean to him. ....
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 occ ....