Sampurna Chattarji
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Poet. Novelist. Translator.
Joined November 2014
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In which @shampoochats and I trace the publishing journey of star Tamil publisher @kannansundara16 who has been publishing literary prize winners in a career spanning more than twenty five years. Read about him in #LivesinLiterature in @nationalherald_
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Meet Kannan Sundaram, the publisher who believes in his writers before the world has discovered them
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As part of the Mumbai Poetry Festival, we celebrate 100 years of Nissim Ezekiel by jointly (Jerry Pinto, @ShampooChats , and I) reading his delightful poem 'Entertainment'. Film by Hyphenbrands, for #Poetrywala. https://t.co/YEieSEEB8f
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@ShampooChats @MishraKedar1 #mumbaipoetryfestival Release of Elizabeth Grech's book of poems - Between Seas Discussion on Maltese Poetry Today: Sampurna Chattarji in conversation with Adrian Grima
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India is weaponising FATF recommendations against civil society https://t.co/ZmI6SBrkbn via @AJEnglish
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For National Herald I wrote something about memory, joy, time and loss evoked by the Ganesh festival. Please read? Thanks @ShampooChats @NH_India
https://t.co/HP5N8p0Z9j
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''Every new year, I would flip through the pages of the calendar to check my birthday, then Ganesh Chaturthi'' writes Sukhada Tatke from her Edinburgh home
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#DilliDiary: Imagine if the owners of a Karachi Watch Co. or Lahore Stationers or Peshawar Cloth House were Muslim. Would their existence be so undisturbed, wonders Akhil Katyal.
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Imagine if the owners of a Karachi Watch Co. or Lahore Stationers or Peshawar Cloth House were Muslim. Would their existence be so undisturbed?
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@andrea_jurjevic My list of outstanding contemporary poets (Non American) Les Wicks @sanjeevpoems3 Oz Hardwick @ShampooChats
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From one of the most important voices in Bengali literature since Jibanananda Das, Joy Goswami, comes a compelling collection of prose poetry. Skillfully translated by Sampurna Chattarji (@ShampooChats), these poems reflect the writer's genius. Read more:
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Listen in...
Sampurna Chattarji presents her poetry as part of Four Good Words, reflecting on #justice #equality #liberty #fraternity. https://t.co/azTiWPX8e5
#prajnya16days #nosgbv #genderequality #fourgoodwords
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Let us celebrate translators today, too often rendered invisible by choice, process, the deceptive transparency of reading, and their own success! @george_szirtes @shreedaisy @tesslewis94 @DJLdistraction @ShampooChats @asanyfuleknow @maniraopoem @arunava @katherineschof8 @iamrana
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Promises to be a rare glimpse into this poet's profound imagination.
It's that rare opportunity to catch up with poet @udayanvajpeyi as he chats about the Bangla translation of his poems in Pagal Ganitagya ki Kavitaen with Chandak Chattarji, #SubhroBandopadhyay and @ShampooChats This evening at 7 pm on the @Tethys77966109 page on Facebook!
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This evening at 7pm! Listen in to how The Mad Mathematician's Poems journeyed directly from Hindi into Bangla. In the company of poet, publisher, translator and editor. Next best thing to the Mad Hatter's Party :)
It's going to be a proper party with Singharas, Cha-ta, and the works! Celebrating Chandak Chattarji's Bangla translation of Udayan Vajpeyi's Pagal Ganitagya ki Kavitaen! Live at 7 pm on 15th Aug on our Facebook page @ShampooChats @katyaynineeta @NamitaGokhale_ @yatrabooks
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🎨 Tonight at 1800: Nicola Heywood Thomas finds out the winner of this years, Wales Book of the Year Award... 🏆 Joined by @LitWales @LleucuArianrhod @tiffanymurray @kenwilsonmax @ShampooChats @GaryRaymond_ @Eloisejwilliams + more... 🎧 Listen @BBCSounds
https://t.co/7pDu4U0ZPq
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And a vital one :)
My one absent presence in a work of fiction. In Sampurna Chattarji's fabulous book of stories set in Bombay, 'Dirty Love'.
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Long live the comma. The editor of a literary magazine once told me, 'I hate poets. They ring up and complain we left out one of their commas....'
A comma butterfly at our table last evening, carrying the glow of its punctuation mark in the slanting summer light.
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