Geetanjali Shree, Harish Trivedi | Ret Samadhi: Meditations on Sand | Jaipur Literature Festival

Ret Samadhi: Meditations on Sand: Geetanjali Shree & Harish Trivedi

Geetanjali Shree, author of the award-winning and much translated novel Mai, is known for her inventive language, adventurous style and imaginative leaps. She engages with varied themes, such as Hindu-Muslim relations, terrorist violence, women’s friendships and loves and lives, to weave out unusual stories. The Empty Space and The Roof Beneath Their Feet are the most recent additions to the translations of her works in several Indian and foreign languages.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Mai, Tirohit

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. He has edited and contributed two chapters to a book on the bhakti poet Abdur-Rahim Khan-e khana.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Jane Kaha Gaye Wo Din, Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India

Ret Samadhi: Meditations on Sand
Accomplished Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s new book Ret Samadhi is an adventurous saga stemming from the joint family and spilling into many stories of our times, culminating in a denouement across the India-Pakistan border. In a session of readings and conversation, she talks of her novel and the creative impulses behind it with post colonial litterateur Harish Trivedi.

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Links to the other session by Geetanjali Shree:    • Naye Bharat Ki Hindi: नये भारत की हिं...  
Links to the other session by Harish Trivedi:    • Harish Trivedi, Vidya Shah, Shamsur R...  

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