Description

Published in December each year, Jalsa is a literary anthology of new writings and translations in Hindi. Each number is named on a theme reflecting a major concern around which fiction, poetry, memoirs, critical reflections and analytical writings are placed.

The theme for Jalsa 1 (2010) is ‘Unfinished Sentences’. This year it is dedicated to Hindi poet and writer Mangalesh Dabral.

WRITINGS

• Vinodkumar Shukla: A poem
• Chandrakant Deotale: Is chamkte jantantra men sirf satta hi ka namonishan nahin (poem)
• Liladhar Jaguri: Six poems
• Ashok Vajpeyi: Four poems
• Gyanendra Pati: Shahr men sheet (poem)
• Bayi Juyi: Seven poems
• Narendra Jain: Ten poems
• Tadeusz Rozewicz: Four poems
• Manmohan: Kal jo ham ne baten ki thin (excerpts from the diary)
• Shubha: Diary
• Krishna Kalpit: On Mangalesh Dabral – memoir and a poem
• Deviprasad Mishra: Sankat dvar (seventeen poems and a story)
• Laltu: Seven poems
• Yogendra Ahuja: Pare hat dhup ane de aur anya vakya (prose)
• Kumar Ambuj: Four poems
• Satyapal Sahgal: A poem
• Nirmala Garg: Six poems
• Ajanta Deo: Five poems
• Ravindra Tripathi: Alochana, sanskriti aur samaj – kuchhnae drishya aur adrishya (essay)
• Jyotsna Sharma: Sahastar ke phul (prose and poems)
• Nilesh Raghuvanshi: Prose and poems
• Pankaj Chaturvedi: Six poems
• Shivaprasad Joshi: Ane vala kal bhi yahin kahin hoga – Bonn ki kuchh yaden (reminiscences)
• Priyam Ankit: Sahitya ka dikkal (essay)
• Shirish Kumar Mourya: Praksah kesh kartanalaya (poem)
• Tarun Bhartiya: Sapat duniya (poem)

Translations by Trinetra Joshi, Uday Prakash