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The Chinar Is My Address: Poems in Exile

by Maharaj Krishen Santoshi , Translated from Hindi by Arvind Gigoo

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ISBN13: 9788124803363
Binding: Paperback
Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books
Publication Date: June 27, 2015
Pages: 82
Original Price: INR 125.0
Language: English
Edition: N/A
Item Weight: 90 grams
BISAC Subject(s): General

About The Book

The Chinar is My Address: Poems in Exile contains English translation of fifty Hindi poems of Maharaj Krishen Santoshi. The translator, Arvind Gigoo selected the original poems from various Hindi poetry books authored by Santoshi. The poems in this anthology are about the pain of migration/exile. Kashmiri Pandits have been living hollow and miserable lives since 1990 when they were forced to flee from the beautiful valley of Kashmir. The poet himself is a victim of sorrow, torture and hopelessness inflicted upon him and others by displacement and exodus. The poems reflect the despair, angst and tragedy of the old, middle-aged, women, and children expressing the innermost feelings of a community affected by militancy, terrorism, political blunders and apathy of the rulers. The references to myths and historical happenings in the poems enhance the tragedy of existence of the exiles, their wounded sensibility, and nostalgia. The symbols and metaphors used in the poems mirror the uncertainty, pessimism and darkness of the soul as the migrants have been living in an alien land far away from their homeland. Some of the poems are allegorical in nature. At times the poet is a fabulist. In “The Hawk”, the hawks are the persecutors, and the sparrows are the persecuted. “Ration Card” and “My Name” depict how these refugees have lost their identity in their own country. In “Minority”, the poet says that he saved his life in the horrible atmosphere of death and decay in order to survive. The dream sequences in some poems are surrealistic in nature. “Monsoons in Pakistan” presents the innocence of a young girl; “The Hood” describes the horror of living in a hot climate; “Snow” reminds an old lady of her own house in Kashmir. However, in “The Anthropological Museum”, the poet is hopeful of return; “The Old Man” presents a picture of despair; in “The Wooden Swords” the poet is critical of the leaders of his own community, and in “A Pregnant Woman in Exile”, the woman wants to make her child tough and brave so that he lives a life of dignity in a hostile world. The anthology is a significant contribution to the genre of Literature in Exile, perhaps for the first time in India.

About The Author

Maharaj Krishen Santoshi, born at Mattan in Kashmir in 1954, started writing short stories and poems in Hindi during his college days. He did M.A. in English literature from the Punjab University. His poems, literary reviews, research papers; and translations are published in leading literary journals of India. His Hindi poems have been translated into several Indian languages. The winner of prestigious Central Hindi Directorate Award, New Delhi, (1993), given by the Hon’ble President of India in (1993), and the Best Book Award given by the J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in 2007, Maharaj Santoshi was forced to leave Kashmir in 1990. Since then he has been staying in Jammu. Mail: nk_Santoshi@rediffmail.com Arvind Gigoo translates Kashmiri and Hindi short stories and poems into English and lives in Jammu.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. A Mirror in the Coffin
2. The Hawk
3. My Name
4. The River
5. Descendants of Kripa Ram
6. The Potter I
7. The Potter II
8. The Potter III
9. Inheritance
10. Jinnah’s Crescent
11. Navin
12. Minority
13. The Tent
14. Silence
15. Muddy Days
16. The Storm
17. Monsoons in Pakistan
18. Feast After Killing
19. Illness
20. Idols
21. Toba Tek Singh
22. Vitasta
23. The Hood
24. An Apple
25. A Folktale
26. From the Cold Climate
27. The Milepost
28. Words
29. Poor Children
30. Tailor I
31. Tailor II
32. The Cutter
33. The Proof
34. The Thread
35. Snow
36. The Spinner
37. Ration Card
38. Blood-Stained Snow
39. The Anthropological Museum
40. A Pregnant Woman in Exile
41. Wounded Silences
42. The Old Man
43. The Glacier
44. In the Refugee Camp
45. Fear
46. The Saver
47. We
48. My Shoes
49. Terror
50. Wooden Swords
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