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When children try to revive a forest
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New Delhi, April 23 : Clouds peck on vapour in the noonday sun/A day will come when rocks will/disappear/I want to save some rock/seeds against that time/If mountains moved, theyd take a/thousand years for each step/The step/would be no bigger for a mountain than/a step for an ant.
From the pen of one of the gentlest, most profound writers of our times comes A Silent Place by Vinod Kumar Shukla, translated from the Hindi by Satti Khanna (Eka), novel about a forest that has been stunned into silence by grief.
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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.
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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.
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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