Naye Bharat Ki Hindi: नये भारत की हिंदी क्या है | Jaipur Literature Festival

Описание: Naye Bharat Ki Hindi: Akhil Katyal, Geetanjali Shree, Neelesh Misra, Pravin Kumar, Rakhshanda Jalil & Saurabh Dwivedi

Akhil Katyal is a writer based in Delhi. He is the author of two books of poems, the forthcoming How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross, which won the Editor’s Choice Award by The Great Indian Poetry Collective, and Night Charge Extra.

Geetanjali Shree, author of the award-winning and much translated novel Mai, is known for her inventive language, adventurous style and imaginative leaps. She engages with varied themes, such as Hindu-Muslim relations, terrorist violence, women’s friendships and loves and lives, to weave out unusual stories. The Empty Space and The Roof Beneath Their Feet are the most recent additions to the translations of her works in several Indian and foreign languages.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Mai, Tirohit

Neelesh Misra is India’s most loved oral storyteller, reaching more than 100 million people every week across radio and digital platforms. He is also the founder of Gaon Connection, India’s biggest rural media platform. He has written five books and lyrics for more than 30 Hindi films. He is an award-winning journalist, formally Deputy Executive Editor of the Hindustan Times and South Asia correspondent for the Associated Press.
Bestselling/ popular Books: The Absent State, Neelesh Misra ka Yaad Sheher

Pravin Kumar is an assistant professor of Hindi in the University of Delhi. Apart from his passion in teaching, Dr. Kumar’s creative talents are well appreciated by many as a prolific author of interesting stories. Being a storyteller, he has been awarded and continuously recognised by the various institutions of eminence.

Rakhshanda Jalil is a translator, writer and literary historian. Her book on the lesser-known monuments of Delhi, Invisible City, continues to be a bestseller. Her recent works include Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu, A Rebel and her Cause, translations of The Sea Lies Ahead, Ghaddar and Kaifi Azmi’s poetry, An Uncivil Woman, The Great War: Indian Writings on the First World War, Preeto & Other Stories: The Male Gaze in Urdu and Jallianwala Bagh: Literary Responses in Prose & Poetry. She has been awarded the Kaifi Azmi Award for her contribution to Urdu and the First Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-Hindi Translation.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of India, Release & Other Stories

Saurabh Dwivedi is the Founding Editor of The Lallantop, India’s most talked about vernacular digital first news venture known for its election coverage and new age writing style. Dwivedi is also known for his news web series Political Kisse, which has millions of views. Previously, he worked with Aajtak, Star News, Dainik Bhaskar and Nav Bharat Times. He is currently working on some film scripts and a romance novel.

Naye Bharat Ki Hindi
Last year’s Oxford Dictionaries ‘Hindi Word of the Year’, announced at the 2018 edition of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, was greeted with excitement and enthusiasm by Hindi readers and writers. Once again, audiences at Diggi Palace will await the jury decision on the most vibrant, contemporary and relevant word of the year. The announcement will be followed by a panel discussion with well known writers and media people on the evolving vocabulary of one of the world’s most widely spoken and read languages. Rakhshanda Jalil is an award-winning translator, critic and literary historian. Geetanjali Shree is the author of the novels Mai, Hamara Shahar us Baras, Tirohit and Khali Jagah. Pravin Kumar is an assistant professor of Hindi in the University of Delhi, a storyteller and the author of Chhabila Rangbaaz Ka Shahar. Akhil Katyal recently translated Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love. Neelesh Misra is a lyricist, radio storyteller, journalist and writer. He is the founder and editor of Gaon Connection, India’s biggest rural media platform. Saurabh Dwivedi is the Founding Editor of Hindi magazine The Lallantop.
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