Harish Trivedi, Vidya Shah, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi | Mir Taqi Mir | Jaipur Literature Festival

Mir Taqi Mir: Harish Trivedi, Vidya Shah & Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Harish Trivedi has published books and articles on Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Translation Studies and Indian/Comparative Literature, and is currently a contributing editor of an international project based in Stockholm for writing a history of World Literature. He has recently edited a book on the medieval bhakti poet Abdur-Rahim Khan-i-Khana. His works include Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India, Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice and the Penguin Classics edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling. He has written on and translated various Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit writers, including Ashvaghosha, Premchand, Manto and Ajneya.
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Vidya Shah is a classically trained musician. She has studied Carnatic music as well as the north Indian genres of Khayal, Thumri Dadra and Ghazal. She has performed at national and international forums, including The Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., The Asia Society in New York and the Bode Museum in Berlin. She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Award and a Senior Fellowship from the Government of India for her project ‘Women on Record’, a performance highlighting the contributions of the forgotten women performers in the Gramophone era. She writes and speaks on music and is the author of Jalsa: Indian Women’s Journey from the Salon to the Studio.

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi has written extensively in Urdu and English, including novels and a collection of stories. Much of his work has focussed on a range of subjects related to Urdu literature and language.

Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in the Urdu language. The outstanding Urdu writer, poet and critic SR Faruqi Saheb’s magnificent English rendition of the Selected Ghazals and Other Poems for the Murty Classical Library of India series offers a comprehensive collection of Mir’s finest ghazals and of his masnavis. The Urdu text, presented in the Nastaliq script, accompanies new translations of Mir’s works, some appearing in English for the first time. An evocative session where Faruqi discusses his translations and the meaning and context of the poems with noted writer and translator Harish Trivedi. Celebrated vocalist Vidya Shah brings the poetry to life through her musical interpretations.
Presented by Murty Classical Library of India

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