Dibyajyoti Sarma's Blog, page 9
December 7, 2021
Anita Nahal reviews Stitching a Home by Basudhara Roy in ...
Anita Nahal reviews Stitching a Home by Basudhara Roy in Confluence.
Maitreyee B. Chowdhury review A Movable East by Siddharth...
Maitreyee B. Chowdhury review A Movable East by Siddharth Dasgupta in the November 2021 issue of The Bangalore Review.
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“Poet Siddhardha Dasgupta’s book A Movable East (Red River, 2021) is a revelation. The book picks up slowly, even tentatively and turns into one of the most assured Anglophone voices, one might read today. The poet is many people and many voices, in the many cities he inhabits, from Paris, to Calcutta, Pune and Istanbul- he brings home for the readers colours, smells and the distinct taste of each place. Sometimes the casual flaneur strolling into an Iranian café-Old Irani bentwood furniture beckons stories, in much the same way oceans summon rush... at others, his words bring alive the unique curiosity for food and its sense of home that provides a sense of comfort.
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Read the complete review here.
Sutanuka Ghosh Roy reviews The Fern-Gatherer’s Associatio...
Sutanuka Ghosh Roy reviews The Fern-Gatherer’s Association by Sekhar Banerjee in Setu Mag.
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“The Fern-Gatherers’ Association” is a book that leaves you wanting for more just like a second flush of hot Darjeeling tea. Nature is the stimulus of his work and he seems to draw his inspiration from life around him. These seem to have evolved on their own from the rocky soil. The exquisite book cover, the illustrations deserve a word of appreciation for the editor, poet and publisher Dibyajyoti Sarma. The book is a must-read if you are a lover of poetry and nature and is an addition to the opus of Indian English poetry.”
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Read the complete review here.
December 5, 2021
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Pra...
The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Pranay Lal’s Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
Published in Vintage by Penguin Random House India; Typeset in Polantin MT Pro by Manipal Technologies; printed at Thomson Press
November 30, 2021
Red River completes four years today. Cautiously stepping...
Red River completes four years today. Cautiously stepping into the fifth, with your support.
A special thanks to our poets for making this possible —
Abhimanyu Kumar; Nabina Das; Ishan Marvel; Jhilmil Breckenridge; Namrata Pathak; Amit Ranjan; Paresh Tiwari; Sukrita Paul Kumar; Yasmin Ladha; Soz; Achla Grover; Gayatri Majumdar; Renn; Kamal Kumar Tanti; Shalim M Hussain; Babitha Marina Justin; Simran Paul; Poornima Laxmeshwar; Sneh Dhillon; Madhu Raghavendra; Robin Ngangom; Dhrubajyoti Borah; Shantana Shaikia; Subhash Chandra Malik; Anjali Capila; Nishi Chawla; Steve Hodge; Chandana Dutta; Uttaran Das Gupta; Robert Wood; Harvinder Kaur; Claus Ankersen; Soni Somarajan; Murali Shivaramakrishnan; Ramnu Ramanathan; Mona Bedi; Nitoo Das; Bina Sarkar Ellias; Shantantu Anand; Nandini Varma; Soumya Menon; Rati Agnihotri; Shobhana Kumar; Kavita Ratna; Srividya Sivakumar; Shikhandin; Siddharth Dasgupta; Naren Weiss; Sekhar Banerjee; Basudhara Roy; Sheena Lakshmi; Paul Kaur; Arvinder Kaur; Thangjam Ibopishak; Smita Agarwal; Hoshang Merchant; Bibhu Padhi; Srutimala Duara;
(The boxes in black are our upcoming titles, featuring, Sufia Khatoon, Semeen Ali; Reema Ahmad; Geetha Ravichandran; Paresh Tiwari; Ramesh Karthik Nayak; Saubhik De Sarkar)
October 31, 2021
"A Guide to Field and Wood [...] is an attempt to write ...
"A Guide to Field and Wood [...] is an attempt to write a universal literature, a creation of a new legend, one where our absolute knowledge counts for nothing, where our origin is told through new objects, relations and permutations. There are no names in the text, no defined places, everything comes across to us as the narrator progresses, nothing is a given. Further, against the tendency to acclimatise nature to ourselves, his Herculean task is to acculturate himself to the natural, both human and non-human."
Shaiq Ali reviews A Guide to Field and Wood by Robert Wood in The Sunflower Collective.
Thank you, Abhimanyu Kumar, helping spread the word.
http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.c...
October 30, 2021
Excited to be a part of this inspiring community of South...
Excited to be a part of this inspiring community of South Asian Literature — Desi Books — hosted by Jenny Bhat, where I answer some questions about my translation of Indira Goswami’s novellas, and a couple of other things as well. Have a dekko!
https://desibooks.co/desibooks10qa-di...
July 31, 2021
Super excited to share this beautiful review of my third ...
Super excited to share this beautiful review of my third collection of poems, Book of Prayers for the Nonbelievers (Red River, 2018), by my friend Abhimanyu Kumar, who has championed a couple of these poems even before the book was made, giving them a home in The Sunflower Collective.
Abhimanyu writes: “The poem We Renounce appears almost towards the end of the book. It is a personal favourite of this reviewer. It speaks of the last sermon by Buddha to his favourite disciple Anand and is rich in deep philosophical insights, while humanising the old and ailing Buddha. “I sought to escape this cycle of illusions and / I failed, the day I longed for company, / the day you came to me. Let me go, it’s time. / And now, I remember him, my infant son / and I wish if I could say sorry for not being / the father I ought to have been. Let me go, it’s time.” The repetition of the phrase ‘Let me go, its time’ brings a musical cadence to the poem.”
Thank you, Abhimanyu, for reading the poems so closely and sympathetically. This is the best review of the book yet.
https://sunflowercollective.blogspot.com/2021/07/tsc-book-review-poetry-book-of-prayers.html
July 15, 2021
Just published: My translation of five novellas of Indira...
Just published: My translation of five novellas of Indira Goswami translated by yours truely.
Indira Goswami: Five Novellas about Women
Translated from the Assamese by Dibyajyoti Sarma
July 10, 2021
1/ This week we explore the wonderful world of Russian w...
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This week we explore the wonderful world of Russian writing in Kannada translation — especially those of Maxim Gorky
First, his autobiography, My Childhood, published in Russian in 1913–14, and in English in 1920
This Kannada translation was published by Bharathi Prakashana
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My Universities, the third part of Maxim Gorky’s autobiography, published in Russian in 1923, in Kannada translation
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Maxim Gorky’s Foma Gordayev, published in Russian in 1899, translated into Kannada as Adhapatana, meaning decline or regression. It is translated into English as The Man Who Was Afraid
The Kannada version was translated by the author who went by the pseudonym, Niranjan
Published by Janashakti Prakashana
