The annual South Asian Poets Meeting will be hosted on May 17, 2014, from 3 PM to 5:30 PM in CGIS-010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA. The topic this year is “Mother Tongue,” “Matrubhsha” in Hindi. Poems in any South Asian or related languages are welcome. In lieu of an original poem, one can read a classical poem in one’s language. There will be Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Kashmiri and Oriya participation.
Poets in these and other languages are invited.
Please contact Dr Bijoy Misra at bmisra@fas.harvard.edu to join the reading.
The following poets will read:
Dinesh Shah – Gujarati – (The Lamps of Humanity)
Pramod Thaker “Krishnaditya” – Gujarati – “Bhasa” (Language)
Chandrakant Shah – Gujarati – bhasha (Mother Tongue)
Amandeep Singh – Punjabi – “Maa Boli”
Maneesh Srivastav – Hindi – “Yaadon ki Sanduk”
Sejal Kothari – Gujarati – Kavita
Sunayana Kachroo – Hindi-Kashmiri- “Nalmott” -A Hug
Sajed Kamal – Bengali – “Ekushe Mane” (The Meaning of Ekushe)
Syed Ali Rizvi – Urdu – “nazm”
Paromita De –English –
Bijoy Misra – Oriya –“Maa o Matrubhasha”
Arun Chaudhari – Marathi –
Maya De – Bengali – Indrachaap
Alok De – Bengali – Amar bhasha
Janmejay Shishupal – Marathi- Namanjur
Badiuzzaman Nasim – Bengali – Amader Ghore Nayee
Abha Chaudhari – English –
Vijay Bezawada – Telugu – Kaalam Maarindi ( Times have changed ).
R. Balachandra – Kannada – Nammuru (My Home Town)
Shiva Gautam – Nepali
