Ranjit Hoskote: We're Pushed By Our Deplorable Education System To Make A Choice Between Science and Arts

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kolkata college makes hay as book fair shines literary sun on city

The New Alipore College in Kolkata is making hay as the literary sun shines over the city because of the ongoing book fair, getting distinguished participants from the event to the campus so that its students get connected to cultures beyond their home. On Tuesday afternoon, the college’s departments of Bengali, Philosophy, History and Sanskrit organised a special lecture and …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

How Ranjit Hoskote’s Essays on Gieve Patel Reflect the Pitfalls of Overanalysing Art and Straying from its Core.

The Hindu

Published : Jun 26, 2024 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ You are looking at a painting, say Gieve Patel’s Crows With A Debris —two crows are pecking at the remains of an animal flattened and decapitated by the tyre of a car or bike; the tyre mark is embossed on the grey surface of the tarred road, the grooves …

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1 year ago

Ramnath’s book of Urdu poetry, ‘Bas Yun Hi’, is a culmination of his fascination for the language and verse

The Hindu

Words rush into verse, tumble into rhyme and flow into poems. After several years of wordplay, versification and journalling, the Chennai based multi-lingual chartered accountant, released a book of Urdu poems, Bas Yun Hi. Eighteen poems on diverse themes, written in Devanagari script, showcase the poet’s felicity for words and his ability to capture fleeting emotions, meditative thoughts and memories …

Music Poetry Chennai Hindi Usha Verse Ramnath

1 year, 5 months ago

Book Review: Ranjit Hoskote’s poetry collection ‘Icelight’ is a deeply felt reflection on the ecological crisis

The Hindu

Published : Oct 05, 2023 11:00 IST - 4 MINS READ In Icelight, Ranjit Hoskote thinks by way of the heart, which is, of course, how good poetry is made. Icelight By Ranjit Hoskote Penguin Hamish Hamilton Pages: 128 Price: Rs.399 What does it mean to be human at a time when the world as we know it is ending, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Peeling away the layers poetry book review of Ranjit Hoskote’s new collection ‘Icelight’

The Hindu

Ranjit Hoskote is at a moment of reckoning. Divided into six passages that broach the life endangered, Icelight doesn’t shy away from peeling the surface layers of things — be it a nation’s moral fulcrum, the threatened wails and concurrently proud stance of the ecological world, or Hoskote’s own meditations on loss — the loss of family, the relinquishment of …

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2 years, 1 month ago

MU to have book on mapping Mumbai’s culture and diversity

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: So far, many books have been published about Mumbai. Enthusiasts can now enjoy reading about the fishermen’s old Mumbai as well as the modern version of the city with skyscrapers, all in one book. HT Image Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Research Center for Social Justice of University of Mumbai has said it will come up with a book named …

City Book This Book Mapping Mumbai

2 years, 4 months ago

Poet-Painter Sukrita’s new collection Vanishing Words marries the eye of a poet with the reason of a philosopher

The Hindu

She is invariably calm and always soft-spoken. Sukrita’s new collection of poetryVanishing Words marries the eye of a poet with the reason of a philosopher. She explains why: “I just wanted my poems not to lean too much on “words” for meaning, it’s the word as a gesture that mattered; that is why I tried to get rid of more …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Conversation With Poet Sudeep Sen Marks Commencement Of 5-Day CBP On Poetry, Pedagogy And Profession At RGNUL

Live Law

5-day International Capacity Building Program on "Poetry, Pedagogy and Profession: Understanding Rhyme and Reason across Cultures" commenced at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab on 20th August 2022. Prof Eugene O' Brien, Director, Mary Immaculate Institute of Irish Studies; Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Convenor, Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi; Dr Anjana Neira Dev, Gargi College, Delhi and Dr Basudhara …

Poetry Sen Prof Rgnul Poet Brien Bajpai

2 years, 11 months ago

Poet Ranjit Hoskote: I'm fascinated by how art produces possibility of a world aslant

Firstpost

“The activity of writing poetry might be solitary, but it is supported by a community – even a family – of fellow writers and readers, says Ranjit Hoskote, who was honoured with the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award at the Jaipur Literature Festival. My writerly process is deeply sustained, also, by ongoing conversations with fellow poets whom I trust deeply, …

Art Solidarity World Poetry Kashmir Work Hindi

3 years ago

5 Indian poets everyone should read on World Poetry Day 2022

India Today

India is home to a rich history of language, art, and culture. Rabindranath Tagore Find out more about these 5 Indian poets from across history that are still held in high esteem. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Find out more about these 5 Indian poets from across history that are still held in high esteem. Sarojini Naidu Find out more about these …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Meena Kandasamy reviews Ranjit Hoskote’s ‘Hunchprose’

The Hindu

What is poetry’s place while a deadly pandemic rages on: do we read it as a prayer or a lament? Days before the second wave hit, I got a copy of Hunchprose, Ranjit Hoskote’s slim, dazzling collection of poetry. Drowning voices Seeking an entry point that will pin down the emotional blanket of this book, I want to begin with …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Interview with Ranjit Hoskote, author, Hunchprose

Hindustan Times

224pp, ₹499; India Hamish Hamilton Which poets have you been reading during the pandemic? In manuscript form, I read Sampurna Chattarji’s translation of Joy Goswami’s prose poems, After Death Comes Water, and in the form of an advance copy, I read Tishani Doshi’s forthcoming A God at the Door. I worked on Hunchprose at white heat, from March 2019 to …

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6 years, 1 month ago

The poet in me is always around, says Jayant Kaikini

Live Mint

Translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, Jayant Kaikini’s stories in the collection No Presents Please cast an unnerving glance on Mumbai and its people. Kaikini’s creations are unique, albeit deeply embedded in the ordinary: a middle-aged unmarried Bengali man, a naughty boy and a quintessential stunt artist. Unclaimed portraits in a frame-maker’s shop, a dressing mirror in a scrapyard, a …

Mumbai Kannada Jayant Kaikini No Presents

6 years, 1 month ago

The poet in me is always around, says Jayant Kaikini

Live Mint

Translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, Jayant Kaikini’s stories in the collection No Presents Please cast an unnerving glance on Mumbai and its people. Kaikini’s creations are unique, albeit deeply embedded in the ordinary: a middle-aged unmarried Bengali man, a naughty boy and a quintessential stunt artist. Unclaimed portraits in a frame-maker’s shop, a dressing mirror in a scrapyard, a …

Mumbai Kannada Kaikini No Presents

7 years ago

On World Poetry Day, an ode to the quiet genius of Kedarnath Singh's verses

Firstpost

Kedarnath Singh begins Banaras, one of his more popular poems, with ‘Like a flash/ with no hint, no warning/Spring comes to this city’. World Poetry Day — coming just two days later — found itself saddled up alongside his last ride, as a thoroughly modern outtake on something that requires sincerity and perhaps a kind of abandonment. But what makes …

Language Hindi Singh World Poetry Day World Poetry Verses Kedarnath

7 years ago

100 Great Indian Poems brings together Eunice de Souza, Kalidasa to provide kaleidoscopic view of poetry

Firstpost

Anthologies are peculiar and odd tasks for editors. As impossible as the task may sound, 100 Great Indian Poems, edited by Abhay K attempts something endearingly unique and preposterously impossible – to merge and collate 3000 years of Indian poetry’s history India via a hundred of its samplings. The same rigour and vision has gone into 100 Great Indian Poems, …

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7 years, 4 months ago

Keki Daruwalla on poetry, growing up in pre-Partition India and the perils of intolerance

Firstpost

Reading the works of former Indian Police Service officer and poet Keki Daruwalla is a delightful experience in itself, but watching him enunciate and recite each line with feeling is something else altogether. Apart from the stories that Daruwalla narrated, he also recited moving poems such as The Chinar, Greek Vases and Migrations, as well as more humourous ones like …

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7 years, 7 months ago

Bengaluru Poetry Festival: Want to break free from identity slots, says Hoskote

Deccan Chronicle

Bengaluru: If there's one thing Ranjit Hoskote, poet and art critic, dislikes, it's being put in a box. "People like to slot other people and if there's one thing poetry helps you do, it's to dismantle boxes of identity and embrace all the strangeness that goes into what we believe is familiar," he said, during his Sunday afternoon session at …

Art Hoskote Bengaluru Poet

7 years, 7 months ago

Poetry and its fight for survival

The Hindu

Where does poetry stand today? Calling poetry a niche art form, best-selling author Anita Nair said very few people are able to understand and appreciate the complexities of poetry. As a result, new poets don’t get opportunities to showcase their talent,” said Ms. Nair, who has been offering workshops on creative writing, including poetry, as part of her Attic programme …

Art Poetry Form

8 years, 4 months ago

Prasoon Joshi speaks on the changing purpose of Bollywood songs

India TV News

Famous screenwriter and lyricist Prasoon Joshi voiced his opinion on the latest Bollywood songs saying that even though India has several poetic movements in past, still the motive behind today’s Bollywoood songs is mere entertainment. Joshi was speaking in a panel discussion ‘The verse case scenario- Should songwriters be considered poets?’ at the seventh edition of ‘Tata Literature Live’ festival, …

India Bollywood Song Joshi Prasoon Joshi Prasoon Changing Purpose

10 years, 1 month ago

Kolatkar’s modernism seen through French lens

Hindustan Times

Paris-based researcher Laetitia Zecchini, who translated Arun Kolatkar’s Kala Ghoda Poems into French in 2013, said his works took the French by surprise. “They didn’t know an Indian poet could write like that,” she said, speaking at a literary event held, as part of the HT Kala Ghoda Arts Festival on Thursday. Latitia-Zecchini-L-and-Ranjit-Hoskote-R-discuss-about-Arjun-Kolatkar-s-book-at-David-Sassoon-Library-as-a-part-of-the-HT-Kala-Ghoda-Arts-Festival-in-Mumbai-Pratham-Gokhale-HT-photo As Zecchini and poet Ranjit Hoskote discussed …

Indian French World Poetry Kolatkar Zecchini Modernism Seen

11 years, 4 months ago

Chennai's CBSE students dabble in Haiku and storytelling

The Hindu

Tanvi Dayal, a class VIII student from Secundrabad who recently wrote a poem on Taj Mahal after watching National Geographic, rushes to her small journal every time she has a story idea in mind. These youngsters are among the 600-odd students handpicked from CBSE schools around the country to learn Haiku and write stories as part of the CBSE-Katha initiative, …

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