Dibyajyoti Sarma's Blog, page 7
April 13, 2022
Happy to find this lovely writeup about my translation of...
Happy to find this lovely writeup about my translation of five Indira Goswami novellas — Five Novellas about Women by Indira Goswami — in PurplePencilProject. Thank you, Kirtana Menon for the succinct introduction, and thank you Niyogi Books for publishing the book. It took nearly five years to get the book out (two years of translation and three years of finding a publisher). I guess it’s time I picked up my next translation project. But I am not sure — I want to translate the popular love story of a novel, Anuradhar Dexh (অনুৰাধাৰ দেশ) by Phanindra Kumar Dev Choudhury — but not sure if publishers would be keen on a “romance novel” from Assam. Instead, somebody give me a commission, please!
March 28, 2022
Book reviews by Dibyajyoti Sarma/Collected Here. https:/...
Book reviews by Dibyajyoti Sarma/
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March 26, 2022
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is M R...
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is M Rajshekhar’s Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
Published by Context (Westland Publications), typeset in Adobe Devanagari by Surya; printed at Manipal Technologies
March 19, 2022
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Jos...
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Josy Joseph’s The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State
Published by Context (Westland Publications), typeset in Scala Regular by Surya; printed at Manipal Technologies
March 7, 2022
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Ami...
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Amitava Kumar’s The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal Published by HarperCollins Publishers, printed at Lustra Print Process
February 28, 2022
Pramila Venkateswaran reviews After Grief by Shikhandin ...
Pramila Venkateswaran reviews After Grief by Shikhandin in Verseville.
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“Death is a rusty truck / bulldozing in to trash / the morning,” begins Shikandin’s After Grief, which is an exploration of death, loss, separation from family, and finding light. Most of the poems, some of which are autobiographical, offers us the poet’s introspection of the threshold between life and death, glimpsing that which is veiled. Through a rich tapestry of images, she allows us moments of rapture. Interestingly, the tapestried cover, repeated as sectional divides, matches the rich imagery of the poems. Natural landscapes, seascapes, domestic scenes populate the settings of the poems and offer imagery spanning the physical and the metaphysical. Shikandin teaches us the many hues of grief. I love the ending of “Unwanted,” where grief is concretized; we hold grief close, experiencing it fully, its softness and jaggedness, as we read: “hold it close — this juddering / of ribs. This folding of shoulders. These / unblinking eyes that defy the saturation of clouds.” Some endings of poems heart-stoppers, such as, “your hands / even time’s wheel would turn into clay.”
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Read the complete review here.
February 27, 2022
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Shi...
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Shivani’s Amader Shantiniketan, translated from the Hindi by Ira Pande Published by Penguin Random House India; typeset in Berkeley by Manipal Technologies; printed at Thomson Press
February 5, 2022
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Mun...
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Mundoli Narayanan’s Space, Time and Ways of Seeing: The Performance Culture of Kutiyattam. Published by Routledge, Oxon; printed at Replika Press
Nishi Pulugurtha reviews The Fern-Gatherer’s Association ...
Nishi Pulugurtha reviews The Fern-Gatherer’s Association by Sekhar Banerjee in Cafe Dissensus Everyday.
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The poems in The Fern-Gatherer’s Association bring together ideas, images, associations, endowing the known and familiar with a dreaminess that fills the senses, of metaphors that linger on, at times languorous, but always rooted in the harsh realities of lived experience that are never far away. It is these varied layers that appeal and lend the poems a universality.
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Read the complete review here. https://cafedissensuseveryday.com/202...
Gankhu Sumnyan reviews Paradise Isn't Artificial by Hosh...
Gankhu Sumnyan reviews Paradise Isn't Artificial by Hoshang Merchant in the Sunflower Collective.
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In many of the cantos, Merchant conjoins personal history with other histories and stories. This act of conjoining or the poet speaking of other histories and the events of his life in one breath leads to a sublimation of the poet’s own feelings. So, Dante’s attachment to Beatrice, Pound learning to love Pasolini, Shahid Ali rowing on Dal Lake is on the same ontological plane with Merchant grieving for his father, travelling with his sister, meeting his lovers. What that does is to elevate the poet’s feelings and thoughts and illuminate them with a sense of literary permanence. So, even if there is loss – loss because of love; loss of Beatrice for Dante – it is reworked into a gain. And the poet in the act of sublimation, in trying to understand the “quality of affection” that was shared, brings out a marvellous sense of poignancy and controlled feeling, which is one of the major achievements of the book.
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Read the complete review here. http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.c...
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With special thanks to Abhimanyu Kumar.
