Shantiniketan | Radha Chakravarty and Reba Som in conversation | Jaipur Literature Festival 2022

Shantiniketan | Radha Chakravarty and Reba Som in conversation | Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 | Presented by Dainik Bhaskar

‘The blue of twilight spread across the horizon. Murmurs ring sweet and calm across the orchard of the Saal’. It is difficult for the heart that has known Tagore’s sanctuary to forgo the poetry of Shantiniketan. The late literary figure and social activist Mahasweta Devi captured fascinating vignettes of her days as a schoolgirl in Shantiniketan, home to the school, university and harmony founded by Tagore, and her entire ethos as shaped by these reminiscences in the book, Our Santiniketan. Writer, critic and translator Radha Chakravarty is the genius behind the English translation of Devi’s nostalgic journey to Shantiniketan, where dreams are cradled by the sky, and has translated the pioneering Bengali writer’s In the Name of the Mother. She has also co-edited the anthology, The Essential Tagore, and translated some of Tagore’s most important works. In conversation with academic and writer Reba Som, Chakravarty discusses the early experiences of the brilliant Mahasweta Devi in a remarkable environment of coexistence, creativity and culture.

Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore and edited several anthologies of South Asian writing. Our Santiniketan is her translation of Mahasweta Devi's memoirs. Her Tagore translations include Gora, Chokher Bali, Boyhood Days, Farewell Song and The Land of Cards. She was nominated for the Crossword Translation Award in 2004, and is currently a professor of literature at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi.

Reba Som is an author and academic, and recipient of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 2000-02. She served as the founding director of ICCR, Kolkata, from 2008 to 2013, and has several publications to her credit, among them, Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and the Making of the Modern Indian Mind, Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and His Song and Margot: Sister Nivedita of Vivekananda. A trained singer of Rabindrasangeet and Nazrul Geeti, Som’s compact disc albums, ‘Selected Songs of Rabindranath Tagore’ and ‘Love Songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam’ include her English translations of the lyrics and can be found at gaana.com, YouTube, and timesmusic.com.

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