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15 Feb
2024
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Community Engagement
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Various Scholars
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Brilliantly translated in a unique collaborative project, For Now, It Is Night brings a comprehensive selection of Kaul’s stories to English readers for the very first time.
Hari Krishna Kaul, one of the very best modern Kashmiri writers, published most of his work between 1972 and 2000. His short stories, shaped by the social crisis and political instability in Kashmir, explore – with an impressive eye for detail, biting wit, and deep empathy – themes of isolation, individual and collective alienation, corruption, and the social mores of a community that experienced a loss of homeland, culture, and language.
In these pages, we will find: friends stuck forever in the same class at school while the world changes around them; travellers forced to seek shelter in a battered, windy hostel after a landslide; parents struggling to deal with displacement as they move away from Kashmir with their children, or loneliness as their children leave in search of better prospects; the cabin fever of living through a curfew.
Free In-Person only Public Book Discussion at JPM institute.
In Collaboration with Literature Live! Evenings
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February 15, 2024
Timing: Tea: 6:00 PM | Discussion: 6:30 - 8:00 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Freny Manecksha
Freny Manecksha is a journalist and writer from Mumbai who has written on development, gender, environmental and human rights issues She is the author of two books.
Behold I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir's Women and Children and Flaming Forest, Wounded Valley Stories from Bastar and Kashmir.
Gowhar Fazili
Gowhar Fazili teaches political science and sociology. His writing has appeared in various journals and edited volumes, and a monograph based on his doctoral thesis is slated to be published soon.
Kalpana Raina
Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive, board director and adviser with over thirty years of experience in both corporate and not-for-profit sectors. This is her first work of translation.
Tanveer Ajsi
Tanveer Ajsi is an independent art historian and cultural theorist. He has written extensively on theatre, performing arts, visual arts and literature, besides translating and directing plays, and curating and conceptualizing exhibitions.