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
Cover art: ‘Faiz-IV’ by MF Husain. Courtesy Shamshad Husai
