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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