Chitra Mudgal, Nand Bhardwaj | Bayan: In Testimony | Jaipur Literature Festival

Bayan: In Testimony: Chitra Mudgal & Nand Bhardwaj

Chitra Mudgal is the first Indian woman to receive the Vyas Samman for her novel Avaan, hailed as one of the greatest literary works in Hindi. Avaan, which has received worldwide acclaim, portrays the lives and times during the Trade Union Movement during the time of Datta Samant. A prolific writer, Mudgal’s work spans short stories, novels, children’s books, plays, essays and translations. Her latest work includes the shortstory collections Lokpriya Kahaniyan and Chuni Hui Kahaniyan, and the novel Post Box no. 203 , Nalasopara.

Nand Bharadwaj is a well-known writer of Hindi and Rajasthani as well as a media person. He has written a number of books that include poetry, fiction, literary criticism and a collection of articles on contemporary media. His Rajasthani Samhi Khulato Marag was awarded the Sahitya Akademi in 2005. He has edited two anthologies on modern Rajasthani fiction and poetry. He has also been awarded the prestigious Bihari Award by the K.K. Birla Foundation, New Delhi. Doordarshan awarded him for his outstanding contribution in the production of a series on Indian classics. As a media professional, he has worked with AIR and DD for more than 3 decades. He retired as Senior Director, Doordarshan Kendra, Jaipur.

Bayan: In Testimony
Two prominent and iconic women writers read from their books and speak of the political and the personal in their work as they discuss the power of literature and the role of the writer in our changing times. Chitra Mudgal is the prolific and much-awarded writer of over ten books, including Aavan and Ek Zameen Apni. Nasera Sharma is an award-winning novelist and short story writer whose fiction questions and interrogates gender inequity. Her latest book, Adab Mein Bayin Pas/i, is a translated and edited collection of writing by Afro-Asian writers in six volumes and a radical feminist reading of literature. In conversation with writer. poet and critic Nand Bhardwaj.

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