โ Scribed by Jayant Kaikini; Tejaswini Niranjana
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Very few writers have caught the absurdities, pathos and comic turmoil that drive life in an Indian city today with the vibrancy of Jayant Kaikini. Girish Karnad Jayant Kaikini s compassionate gaze takes in the people in the corners of the city, the young woman yearning for love, the certified virgin who must be married off again, the older woman and her medicines. Tejaswini Niranjana s translations bring the rhythms of Kannada into English with admirable efficiency. This is a Bombay book, a Mumbai book, a Momoi book, a Mhamai book, and it is not to be missed. Jerry Pinto No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different futures, where film posters start talking to each other, where epiphanies are found in keychains and thermos-flasks. From Irani cafรฉs to chawls, old cinema houses to reform homes, Jayant Kaikini seeks out and illuminates moments of existential anxiety and of tenderness. In these sixteen stories, gaps in the curtains of the ordinary open up to possibilities that might not have existed, but for this city where the surreal meets the everyday.
Jayant Kaikini, Kannada poet, short story writer, columnist and playwright with six short story volumes, five poetry collections, three collections of nonfiction to his credit, is also a much-sought-after award-winning lyricist, script and dialogue writer for Kannada films. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including four Karnataka Sahitya Academy awards for excellence in writing, first one being at the age of 19 in 1974 for his debut poetry collection, followed by similar awards in 1982, 1989 and 1996, for his short story collections. He has been bestowed with the Dinakar Desai award for poetry, B.H. Sridhar award for fiction, Katha National Award and Rujuwathu Trust Fellowship for his writing. He is the recipient of the Karnataka State Award for Best Dialogues for the film Chigurida Kanasu and the Filmfare Award, thrice in 2008, 2009, 2016 for best lyrics in Kannada. A biochemist by training and a well-known television personality, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate from the Tumkur University in 2011 for his contribution to Kannada in the fields of literature, films and television. He was honoured as 'Zee Kannadiga of the Decade' in 2016. His collection of essays on cinema Touring Talkies has been published recently. Tejaswini Niranjana won the Central Sahitya Akademi Prize for best translation for M.K. Indira s Phaniyamma (1989), and the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Prize for her translation of Niranjana s Mrityunjaya (1996). She has also translated Pablo Neruda s poetry and Shakespeare s Julius Caesar into Kannada. Her translations into English include Vaidehi s Gulabi Talkies (2006). She grew up in Bangalore, and has studied and worked in Mumbai. She is currently professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
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