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[Aarti Sethi]

Dear Friends,

We welcome in the New Year with an afternoon of nonsense verse, "wit,
wordplay and riotous rhymes". We hope to see you there for an
afternoon of serious fun :)

Warm wishes for 2007!

Aarti

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Readings from: "The Tenth Rasa : An Anthology of Indian Nonsense"
Penguin India, 2006
Edited by Michael Heyman, Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka Ravishankar

3:30 P.M., Saturday, 13 January 2007
Interface Zone, Sarai-CSDS


For the last eighteen hundred years Indian arts have been seen in
terms of strictly classified emotional effects known as the nine
rasas. 'The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense' celebrates,
for the very first time, the final, unacknowledged rasa--what Sukumar
Ray called the 'spirit of whimsy'--through the topsy-turvy,
irreverent, melodic genre of nonsense literature.

This selection of poetry and prose, brilliantly translated from
seventeen Indian languages across India, includes works by
Rabindranath Tagore, Sukumar Ray, Vinda Karandikar, Gulzar, Dash
Benhur, Manoj Das, Navakanta Barua, Mangesh Padgavkar, Sri Sri,
Vaikom Mohammad Basheer, Kunjunni and other known, lesser-known and
first-published authors.  In forms as varied as Bollywood song lyrics
and medieval court verse, lullabies, folk tales,stories and songs for
children and adults, the writers open doors to wildy imaginative
worlds populated by peculiar characters and fantastical creatures,
where only nonsense makes perfect sense.

Crackling with wit, wordplay, and riotous rhymes, this immensely
entertaining collection is a treat for nonsense-lovers of all ages.


The Editors

Michael Heyman, head editor, is an associate professor of English
Literature at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, USA.

Sumanyu Satpathy, editor, is a professor of English at Delhi University.

Anushka Ravishankar, editor, is the only Indian nonsense writer
published
in English in India.


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