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
Cover art: From the series ‘Portrait of an Umbrella – conversation’ by MF Husain. Courtesy Shamshad Husain.
