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Joy Goswami: The Cosmopolitan From the Mofussil


Joy Goswami: The Cosmopolitan From the Mofussil
Sampurna Chattarji’s translation of Joy Goswami’s poetry is essential reading for anyone with even a casual interest in Indian poetry.
Joy Goswami s poetry is like a broad, brown, silt-laden river, with its source in suburban or mofussil spaces such Ranaghat and its distributaries spreading into a global consciousness. Photo: Samuli Kangaslampi/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Bengali poet Joy Goswami has often recollected in interviews and his writing the moment he decided to pursue poetry. The scene unfolds at a railway station in a mofussil town in West Bengal. (Born in Kolkata in 1954, Goswami grew up and has lived at Ranaghat, a town about 80 km north of the state capital.) While waiting for his friend Subodh Sarkar, Goswami was flipping through the pages of a volume of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry in translation when he decided to become a poet. Several retellings ha ....

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