SHE: is a collection of selected short stories written by distinguished contemporary women writers in Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Rajasthani, Hindi, Urdu and English. These 16 short stories written by women writers, address both major and micro issues that women negotiate as they struggle to assert the indisputable fact that women's rights are an integral part of human rights. The short stories exude region-specific nuances of customs and sub-cultures that underscore the vibrant plurality of Indian society.
Sanjukta Dasgupta Former Professor and Former Head, Dept. of English and Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University is a poet, critic and translator. She is the recipient of numerous national and international grants, awards and fellowships and has lectured, taught and read her poems and short stories in India, Europe, USA and Australia. She was the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, United Kingdom. She is a member of the General Council of Sahitya Akademi, and Convenor of the English Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi. She is also the President of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library at ICCR, Kolkata. Her published books include Her Stories 20th century Bengali Women Writers, Shrishti Publishers, Manimahesh (translation, Sahitya Akademi), Tagore: At Home in the World (coeditor SAGE 2013), Radical Rabindranath: Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore's Fiction and Films. (co-author, Orient Blackswan 2013), SWADES- Tagore's Patriotic Songs (translation, Visva Bharati Publication Division, 2013), Abuse and Other Short Stories (2013, Towards Tagore A collection of Essays (ed. with introduction - Visva Bharati Publications, 2014), Anthology of Bengali Short Stories (Sahitya Akademi New Delhi 2016 reprinted 2018).
Vanita is the retd. Associate Professor, Department of Punjabi, SGTB. Khalsa College, University of Delhi. She is a poet, critic and a translator. She has authored 48 books. Feminism, post- modernism, Sufism, Gurmat and modern poetry are the specific fields of her interest. She is a member of significant institutions and committees and has participated in various national and international conferences and seminars. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships including Bhartiya Sahitya Akademi and Shiromani literary Award of Punjab. She has presented several Radio and Television talks and anchored several literary programmes. Presently she is the Convenor of Punjabi Advisory Board of Bhartiya Sahitya Akademi.
SHE is a collection of selected short stories originally written by distinguished contemporary women writers in 8 languages. These languages are Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Rajasthani, Hindi, Urdu and English. Four of these languages are widely used in the states of Kashmir, Jammu, Punjab and Rajasthan. These are Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi and Rajasthani. Urdu and Hindi are pan-Indian languages, used in all parts of India, in differing scales of usage, mostly according to available demographics. Sanskrit is considered to be one of the oldest classical languages of India. It is usually used in Hindu religious texts. However, there has been a new spurt of interest in using this classical language for contemporary creative writing. The two Sanskrit stories in this volume bear evidence of this unique re-invention of a classical language used in narrating stories about slums, labourers and old age homes.
It is a known fact that English is not a region-specific language of India. It however became the language of instruction in India from 1835, when the British governed India till 1947. However, though India became independent, the English language still remains a widely used language in India, both in higher education and service sectors. It is regarded as the formal link language, enabling oral and written communication between Indians, covering the wide trajectory from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean.
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