I was recetly home. And I picked some of my Fathers books. He practises a keen interest in Hindi literature and recommended his book..”Pratinidhi Kahaniyan” by Shri Jayshankar Prasad. For those of you who do not follow Hindi literature, Shri Jayshankar is a poet and novelist who writes in prose form Hindi of a very elite class. He has published Title,Kankaal and Iravati and no I have not read them myself. I need my father to explain the prose form Hindi when I read it. All by myself I would not understand half of it.
Anyway, so talking about the collection of his short stories which I am reading currently, the focus lies mainly on the comtemporary problems of the Indian society in late eigthteenth and early nineteeth century. It is just an urge to translate some of his stories into english. Having said this, I am not qualified to translate the stories of this acclaimed writer, so will call them narrations in the posts to come….
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It will be interesting to read the narrations. Except for my course books I have not read any good literary works in Hindi.
You have got one reader waiting, post soon.
I read some excerpts from Kamayani and it was mesmerising….so am very much interested in reading his other works..albeit in translated form..
prakriti – I did my Sahitya Ratha research in Kamayini and I simply fell in love with Jayshankar Prasad.. Of all the great writers of modern Hindi lit, I think Prasad and Harivamsharay Bachchan are simply the best.
@Siva..
I have been reading the short stories and its and urge to do a rendition.. I hope I can come up with something soon..Kamayani is really one of his best works from what I hear..
@Siva..
I have been reading the short stories and its an \urge to do a rendition.. I hope I can come up with something soon..Kamayani is really one of his best works from what I hear..
Waiting for your renditions.. all the best. Kamayini is scintillating. I tried my hand in churning some of the verses in Tamil, but I am not knowledgeable enough in either one of the languages to do so.. It is very important that the essence of such masterpieces dont remain confined only to the mother language.
Siva.. Kamayini is fascinating… cant forget “Himgiri ki Uttung Shikhar par ..baith shila ki sheetal chhaon.. ” ..
Find more of Jaishankar Prasad’s illustrious poetries, (that too in hindi script)
http://www.anubhuti-hindi.org/gauravgram/prasad/himadri.htm
Prakriti… Nice posts.. will bookamark this link… chk out http://www.anubhuti-hindi.org/ … good for hindi lovers..
(no… dont think that I’m an agent of that website) … 😉 …
@apurva : liked the link u gave.. u l find it in my blog roll ‘hall of fame’..
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do u know any national stories by Jayashankar Prasad
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