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New Delhi– Dubbed the “greatest literary show on Earth”, the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) returns in a virtual avatar from February 19-28 featuring a spectacular line-up of speakers from across the world, consisting of writers, poets, playwrights, thinkers, politicians, journalists, cultural icons and recipients of major literary awards including the Man Booker, the Pulitzer, JCB Prize for Literature, Commonwealth, European Union Prize, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
The programme is vast and kaleidoscopic, with themes ranging from Technology & AI, Politics & History, Environment & Climate Change, Mental Health, Economics, Translations, Poetry & Music, Food & Literature, Geopolitics, Science & Medicine, Democracy & Constitutions, Water & Sustainability, Historical Fiction and Travel et al.
The world of Pandey Kapil s Phoolsunghi: Gautam Choubey on translating the novel, Bhojpuri literary culture Phoolsunghi is the first Bhojpuri novel to be translated into English and opens up the local culture and tradition to a larger audience. Aarushi Agrawal December 23, 2020 09:19:23 IST
In Bhojpuri veteran author Pandey Kapil’s 1977 novel
Phoolsunghi, set roughly between the 1840s and 1931, after the
tawaif Dhelabai slights the powerful
zamindar Babu Haliwant Sahay, he builds the Red Mansion, a cage where he traps her forever. As she grapples with her new life, the novel weaves an intricate web of characters and backstories, overarchingly presenting the love story of Dhelabai and the folk poet Mahendar Misir.