Sampurna Chattarji's "Dogs, Mobs, and Rock Concerts"

12/23/19 • 15 min

In episode #2, the poet in the darbaar is Sampurna Chattarji - reading her poems "Dogs, Mobs, and Rock Concerts", "Mahim to Goregaon", and "Fear Not". In between the poems, host Lakshya Datta chats with Sampurna about her writing process and how Bombay/Mumbai became her muse.

Sampurna Chattarji was born in in Dessie, Ethiopia and lives in Thane, Maharashtra. Her eighteen books include a short-story collection about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love (Penguin, 2013); a translation of Joy Goswami’s Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2014, 2018); and nine poetry titles, the most recent being Over and Under Ground in Mumbai & Paris (Context, Westland Publications, 2018) written in collaboration with Karthika Naïr; Elsewhere Where Else / Lle Arall Ble Arall (Poetrywala, 2018) and The Bhyabachyaka (Scholastic, 2019), both co-authored with Eurig Salisbury. She is currently Poetry Editor of The Indian Quarterly.

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Previous Episode

Akhil Katyal's "He was as arrogant as a Chattarpur farmhouse"

In the premiere episode, the poet in the darbaar is Akhil Katyal - reading his poems "He was as arrogant as a Chattarpur farmhouse" (English) and "Agar tum koi metro station hoti" (Hindi). The poems bookend Akhil's conversation with Poetry Darbaar host Lakshya Datta about where the words come from.

A writer based in Delhi, Akhil's second book of poems 'How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross' won the Editor's Choice Award by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. He translated Ravish Kumar's 'Ishq Mein Shahar Hona' as 'A City Happens in Love' for Speaking Tiger. He teaches Creative Writing at Ambedkar University Delhi.

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Gurpreet Saini's "Mohtaaj"

In episode #3, the poet in the darbaar is Gurpreet Saini - reading his poems “Mohtaaj / The Name”, “The Aim”, “The Lesson”, “Suraj”, and “Shaam”. In between the poems, host Lakshya Datta talks to Gurpreet about his two lives: Gurpreet the lyricist, and Mohtaaj the poet.

It was in DAV College and then Manchtantra, that he met Rochak Kohli, Ayushmann Khurana and Gautam Govind Sharma and, from making music for street plays and stage plays in Chandigarh, he is now in Mumbai and has given us songs like: "Saadi Gali Aja" (Nautanki Saala), "Mitti di Khushboo" (Ayushmaan Khurrana’s and Rochak Kohli’s single), "Yahin Hun Main" (Ayushmaan Khurrana’s and Rochak Kohli’s single), “Maa" (Mika Singh’s and Rochak Kohli’s single), "Atrangi yaari" (Wazir), "Ek ladki ko dekh to aisa laga" (full album), "Bheege mann" (Khaandani Shafakhana), "Jako rakhe Saayiyan" (Batla House), "Tu mileya" ( Darshan Raval’s single), and most recently "Dil na jaaneya" (Good Newwz).

You can listen to his songs on JioSaavn, and follow his poetry on Instagram @mohtaaj_

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