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 2 (2011) is ‘Exile’. This year it is dedicated to painter Maqbool Fida Husain.

WRITINGS

• Deviprasad Mishra: Main ne socha ki darvaze par (fiction)
• Federico Garcia Lorca: A poem
• Anrei Viznesensky: Three poems
• Bella Akhmadulina: A poems
• Shamsher Bahadur Singh: Photos by Lakshmidhar Malaviya
• Mahmood Darwish: Poems
• Giriraj Kiradoo: Six poems
• Vyomesh Shukla: Nine poems
• Kaneko Mitsuharu: Tanhai (poem)
• Lakshmidhar Malaviya: Babu (reminiscences)
• Shivkumar Gandhi: Six poems
• Rajesh Saklani: Eleven poems
• Yannis Ritsos: Ek manushya, ek desh (poems)
• Tribhuvan: Aravali ke akhiri din (poem)
• Anil Yadav: Aprem (fiction)
• Ashraf Aziz: Sigret, sinema, Sahgal aur sharab (memoir)

Translations by Ashok Pande, Asad Zaidi, Mangalesh Dabral, Lakshmidhar Malaviya