Vignettes of a South African Township called Mdantsane

Monday, August 25, 2014

For Irom Sharmila

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Irom Sharmila
Charcoal on Paper

For Irom

they stabbed a sun
legally
multiple times
dragged another sky in chains
declared guilty
legally and thrown in a cell
horizons cowered
in shame and shamelessness
outside dogs barked and quarreled
indecisively
the Generals continue sipping scotch
on such sky less evenings at
Imphal

Amitabh Mitra

Renowned Indian Poet Badal Saroj has translated this poem in Hindi

उन्होंने सूरज में, कानूनी रूप से, अनगिनत बार घोंप डाले चाकू
एक और आकाश को बेड़ियों में घसीट कर
मुजरिम करार दे दिया
और धकेल दिया काल कोठरी में ; सो भी पूरी तरह कानूनन
शर्म के मारे दुबक गए क्षितिज
उत्सव मनाती रही बेशर्मी
कुत्ते भौंकते और झगड़ते रहे अनवरत
और
इम्फाल की ऐसी
एक निर्वात और निरावृत्त शाम में
स्कॉच सुडकते रहे जनरल.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Badal Saroj

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Badal Saroj is the Provincial Secretary of Communist Party of India Marxist, Madhya Pradesh and a Central Committee Member. He is also my childhood friend from Gwalior .
We both share a common thread, inclination towards Poetry and Revolutionary Thoughts.
His work involves in reaching out to the poorest of poor in Madhya Pradesh and its borders with Uttar Pradesh.

Charcoal and Chalk on Paper by Amitabh Mitra

Friday, August 8, 2014

Nadine Gordimer , A Guerrilla of Imagination

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Seamus Heaney described Nadine Gordimer as a "Guerrilla of Imagination"

Charcoal and Chalk on Paper - Amitabh Mitra

Friday, August 1, 2014

Nadine Gordimer

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Charcoal on Paper - Amitabh Mitra

You could impress Nadine Gordimer, disgust her, but not fool her - Gopalkrishna Gandhi - Hindustan Times July 25 2014

This is how it is with everyone, but most strikingly so with writers and artists, they are best remembered when they die


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That is how it is with everyone, but most strikingly so with writers and artists; they are best remembered when they die.

Nadine Gordimer’s death at 90 earlier this month revived interest in her life and work as no event in her life had, not since the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to her in 1991. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/gopalkrishnagandhi/no-time-like-the-present/article1-1244661.aspx#sthash.0YBbnBRX.dpuf
You could impress Nadine Gordimer, disgust her, but - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/gopalkrishnagandhi/no-time-like-the-present/article1-1244661.aspx#sthash.0YBbnBRX.dpuf
You could impress Nadine Gordimer, disgust her, but not fool her - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/gopalkrishnagandhi/no-time-like-the-present/article1-1244661.aspx#sthash.0YBbnBRX.dpuf