Talks by Jaydeep Sarangi
Writers in Conversation, Australia, 2020
Kalyani ThakurCharal is a cyclonic Dalit feminist and social activist. She wants to be known as a... more Kalyani ThakurCharal is a cyclonic Dalit feminist and social activist. She wants to be known as a Dalit womanist who believes that writing is an act of resistance. She has four collections of poems, one autobiography and three collections of essays. She edits a cultural magazine, Nir. Her works are translated into English and many of them are on University syllabuses. This interview is the outcome of the meetings we have in Kolkata in last four months. Q. Why do you write? A.I write so that I can protest. Weapons are needed in protest. My pen is my weapon. I protest through my pen. Writing gives me purgation of my pent-up angst against social oppression, age-old stereotypes and discriminations. I am a soldier armed with words. There is chemistry within a creative writer. I always find a movement of thoughts within me. My writing is my inside out in words. Dalit women write differently. Q. What is your first writing? What was the topic? A. I started my writing with poetry. It was a romantic poem. Love was its main theme. I don't remember its title now.
WC, 2020
Dr Raphael d’Abdon is a writer, scholar, spoken word poet, editor and translator. In 2007 he comp... more Dr Raphael d’Abdon is a writer, scholar, spoken word poet, editor and translator. In 2007 he complied, translated and edited I nostri semi/Peo tsa rona, an anthology of contemporary South African poetry. In 2011 he translated into Italian (with Lorenzo Mari) Bless Me Father, the autobiography of South African poet Mario d’Offizi. In 2013, he compiled and edited the collection Marikana: A Moment in Time. He is the author of three collections of poems, sunnyside nightwalk (Johannesburg: Geko, 2013), salt water (Johannesburg: Poetree Publishing,..
Writers in Conversation , 2020
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was born in Bombay to Prof. Nissim Ezekiel and Daisy Ezekiel. She was rai... more Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was born in Bombay to Prof. Nissim Ezekiel and Daisy Ezekiel. She was raised in a Bene-Israel Jewish family in Bombay, India. She attended Queen Mary’s School, St. Xavier’s College, Bombay University and Oxford Brookes University, U.K. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English, American Literature and Education. Her career spanned over four decades in Indian colleges, American International Schools and Canada, teaching English, French and Spanish.
Jaydeep Sarangi is a bilingual writer, academic, editor, interviewer, translator and author of a ... more Jaydeep Sarangi is a bilingual writer, academic, editor, interviewer, translator and author of a number of significant publications on postcolonial issues, Indian writing in English, Australian literature, marginal literatures and creative writing, in journals and magazines both in India and abroad. He is on the editorial board of several refereed journals in different continents. Widely anthologised and reviewed as a poet and a critic on marginal writings, he has authored six poetry collections in English, the latest being Faithfully, I Wait (2017), and one in Bengali. About his poems Keki Daruwalla says, ‘Jaydeep Sarangi gives a fresh paint to everyday living. “Small rivers” near tribal villages are his haunts.
Towards the Cultural Banner
of Bangla Dalit Literary
Movement: An Interview With
Nakul Mallik
Nak... more Towards the Cultural Banner
of Bangla Dalit Literary
Movement: An Interview With
Nakul Mallik
Nakul Mallik was born in a low-wage family of the Namashudra caste living in a village,
Gajendrapur. He is one of the pioneer Bangla Dalit activists/writers. His signal works include
three biographies, a work of religious philosophy; several short story collections, a book of eight
one-act plays and Manik Ratan, a story based on rural Bengal and the social situation at the
time of Partition. A list of his works can be found below on pages 15-16.
Here Nakul Mallik is in conversation with Jaydeep Sarangi where he frankly narrates the
growth and development of Bangla Dalit Movement. This interview took place at Tollygunj
railway station, Kolkata where Jaydeep Sarangi and Nakul Mallik met for academic and
organizational discussions. It was a sunny afternoon in South Kolkata.
Jaydeep Sarangi
Bangla dalit Literary Movement ---past and present
, Michelle Cahill is a significant cultural ambassador and her poems connect continents and she d... more , Michelle Cahill is a significant cultural ambassador and her poems connect continents and she deserves accolade world wide....
This interview was done through e mail. J.S.: Would you please tell us about your early childhood... more This interview was done through e mail. J.S.: Would you please tell us about your early childhood days and parentage? C.C.: My parents are British migrants and they and my older brother and sister, travelled to Australia after the Second World War. I was the first child born in Sydney. I had a very happy childhood. I had many cousins and we were always making up very imaginative games. We were ruffians and our parents left us alone all day to climb trees, make cubby houses and generally get into mischief. I loved to read and devoured books, which my little sister and I often acted out. I also started writing my own stories very young – my father helped this along when he gave me an old typewriter. My parents always gave us books as gifts and had brought lots of books from the UK so our house was a reader's paradise and the local library was very good too. I remain of the view that reading shaped my life and my future passion for being a writer.To paraphrase (George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons), we all live a thousand lives through the books we read and people who don't read live only one. Nothing charges the imagination more actively than a good book, with great characters and story line. I am grateful for my early introduction into the world of books and especially the young adult fiction by Australian writers like Ivan Southall, Nan Chauncy, and Ethel Turner who showed me how exciting my own country was. J.S.: You are multi-faceted. An academic, a prominent critic, reviewer, biographer, editor, fictionist, novelist and poet. How do you manage so many genres and streams? In conversation with Catherine Cole.Jaydeep Sarangi.
Papers by Jaydeep Sarangi
Le Simplegadi, Nov 1, 2021
Review of Sea Dreams by Bibhu Padh
Writers in Conversation, 2019
Malay Roychoudhury (1939) is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and... more Malay Roychoudhury (1939) is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s which changed the course of avant-garde Bengali literature and painting. His best-known poetry collections are Medhar Batanukul Ghungur, Jakham and Matha Ketey Pathachhi Jatno korey Rekho; and his novels Dubjaley Jetuku Proshwas and Naamgandho. He has written more than hundred books. He was given the Sahitya Academy award, the Indian government's highest honour in the field, in 2003 for translating Dharamvir Bharati's Hindi fiction Suraj Ka Satwan Ghora. However, he declined to accept this award and others. This interview has been executed by the exchange of e mails with the activist-author.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 19, 2024
Writers in Conversation, 2019
Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor and Former Head, Dept of English and Ex- Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calc... more Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor and Former Head, Dept of English and Ex- Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University, teaches English and American literature along with New Literatures in English. She is a poet, critic and translator, and her articles, poems, short stories and translations have been published in journals of distinction in India and abroad.Her inner sphere overlaps the outer on the speculative and the shadowy. There is a sublime inwardness in her poems. Her recent signal books include Snapshots, Dilemma, First Language, More Light, and Lakshmi Unbound. She co-authored Radical Rabindranath: Nation, Family, Gender: Post-colonial Readings of Tagore’s Fiction and Film, and she is the Managing Editor of Families: A Journal of Representations.She has received many grants and awards, including Fulbright fellowships and residencies and an Australia India Council Fellowship. Now she is the Convener, English Board, Shaitya Akademi. Professor Dasgupta has visited Nepal and Banglade...
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Talks by Jaydeep Sarangi
of Bangla Dalit Literary
Movement: An Interview With
Nakul Mallik
Nakul Mallik was born in a low-wage family of the Namashudra caste living in a village,
Gajendrapur. He is one of the pioneer Bangla Dalit activists/writers. His signal works include
three biographies, a work of religious philosophy; several short story collections, a book of eight
one-act plays and Manik Ratan, a story based on rural Bengal and the social situation at the
time of Partition. A list of his works can be found below on pages 15-16.
Here Nakul Mallik is in conversation with Jaydeep Sarangi where he frankly narrates the
growth and development of Bangla Dalit Movement. This interview took place at Tollygunj
railway station, Kolkata where Jaydeep Sarangi and Nakul Mallik met for academic and
organizational discussions. It was a sunny afternoon in South Kolkata.
Jaydeep Sarangi
Papers by Jaydeep Sarangi
of Bangla Dalit Literary
Movement: An Interview With
Nakul Mallik
Nakul Mallik was born in a low-wage family of the Namashudra caste living in a village,
Gajendrapur. He is one of the pioneer Bangla Dalit activists/writers. His signal works include
three biographies, a work of religious philosophy; several short story collections, a book of eight
one-act plays and Manik Ratan, a story based on rural Bengal and the social situation at the
time of Partition. A list of his works can be found below on pages 15-16.
Here Nakul Mallik is in conversation with Jaydeep Sarangi where he frankly narrates the
growth and development of Bangla Dalit Movement. This interview took place at Tollygunj
railway station, Kolkata where Jaydeep Sarangi and Nakul Mallik met for academic and
organizational discussions. It was a sunny afternoon in South Kolkata.
Jaydeep Sarangi
tradition with ever-growing international readership and
academic curiosity. The contemporary poets in English have earned
their recognition through sheer merit and resourcefulness without
an expiry date. They have wide readership across the globe. They
reflect their private and universal links. Some are writing about
borders, blurring borders, hybrid space, angst of oppression, travels,
social issues, which make them unique and amazing. The present
edited anthology of critical essays encapsulates the contemporary
Indian voices within India and abroad (of diaspora). The list of
New Indian poets in English is a huge one. Poets are writing from
different backgrounds, time zones and cultural contexts. The body is varied and amazing!
sets out to explore the limits of postcolonialism as a literary
discourse. Postcolonialism, moving beyond the plot of a so-called
critical practice, has come to represent a complex web of meanings.
"Presentations of Postcolonialism in English: New Orientations"
is about multiple strategies of reading and interpretation.
The present collection of essays represents myriad, interesting and
insightful explorations of textuality and intertextuality of the
postcolonial discourse and its meaning in recent critical practice.
The contributors have explored the subject across different genres
through both traditional and radical interpretations.Jaydeep Sarangi, a seasoned academic, explores several key parameters of the said topic.
discourse. Postcolonialism, moving beyond the plot of a so-called
critical practice, has come to represent a complex web of meanings and parameters.The book is a refreshing read!
From 1872, the namashudhras began to mobilize politically and later opposed the Congress-led nationalist movements. Undergirding their political assertion was the evolution of the Matua religious sect, which questioned the caste system and instilled the idea of self-worth. Writing movingly about his deprived childhood, where his single-minded search for education is remarkable, Biswas depicts a people facing a precarious existence with solidarity that encompassed Muslims.
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