Talk and Reading By RANDHIR KHARE

Thursday, April 02, 2009

THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE

invites you to a talk and reading by poet and translator

RANDHIR KHARE

in which he will explore threads of commonality and difference,

based on his translation Flight Of Arrows: Song poems of the Bhil

and his own poems Written In Sand

Date: 6th April, 2009, Monday

Time: 6.15 pm

Venue: Theosophy Hall (3rd floor), 40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Mumbai - 20

All are welcome

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RANDHIR KHARE grew up in a politically and culturally turbulent Calcutta where his poetry began appearing in magazines and literary journals. Over the years, his poetry has been presented at readings across the country, in Bulgaria, (the former) Czechoslovakia, England, during lecture presentations on India, exhibition openings and arts festivals in Dublin and rural Ireland, adapted for national and international contemporary puppet theatre performances, used extensively in creative and educational workshops in Ireland and India, set to music, used by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their exhibition on Nehru and the Making of Modern India and has inspired the works of painters, illustrators, photographers, educationists and multi-media producers.
Most recently he has performed his poetry with a jazz band at the international writer’s festival in Indonesia, an Iranian santoor player, a tabla player and with the Chamber Singers – a choir based in Pune. His poems have been set to music by A.R.Rahman.

The poet’s drawings have been exhibited in Pune and Mumbai and have appeared in a number of his books.
He has published twenty volumes of poetry, short fiction, travel, a futuristic fable and a novel and is the recipient of Pegasus – the Union of Bulgarian Writers’ Gold Medal for Poetry and the Sanskriti Award for Creative Writing in India among other awards.

Randhir Khare has been Professor of Literature at Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune and presently teaches in Poona College. He continues to work extensively on the cultural documentation of traditional and marginal communities in the country. He is the Executive Editor of Heritage India an international heritage magazine.

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Sampurna Chattarji

The PEN All-India Centre.

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