Anamika Poetry

K Satchidanandan in conversation with Anamika at Kerala Literature Festival ( KLF 2017 ) Kozhikode Beach, Calicut, Kerala South India. "My Writings, My Thoughts" Video @ KLF 2017

Given India's present scenario, where freedom of expression in curtailed by the ruling dispensation, 3 Hindi and Urdu poets speak of the importance of metaphor as a tool of protest.

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In conversation with noted writer & poet, Anamika. Anchor: Samina

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Ek Zameen Apni: Writing the Feminine: Anamika & Nishtha Gautam Anamika is a Hindi poet, novelist and translator. Her poems ‘Khurduri Hatheliyan’, ‘Doob-Dhan’ and ‘Tokri Mein Digant’ are prescribed at national universities. Her novels, Dus Dwaare Ka Peenjara and Tinka Tinke Paas, have been staged as major productions in Marathi and Malayalam. Both her poems, as well as essays on feminist discourse in Hindi, have been translated into several Indian and international languages. Her English publications include Transplanting British Poetry in Indian Classrooms, Donne Criticism Down the Ages, Post-War Women Poets: Treatment of Love and Death, Feminist Poetics: Where Kingfishers Catch Fire, Translating Racial Memory and Weaving a Nation: Proto-Feminist Writing in Hindi and Urdu (1920-47). Nishtha Gautam is Opinions Editor at The Quint. Before moving to full-time journalism, she taught English Literature at the University of Delhi for eight years. She observes literary and cultural space with keenness, in tandem with her interest in politics and foreign affairs. Presented by Amar Ujala THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 sessions: https://bit.ly/3BzdOHV Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/