Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: June 4, 2019 9:03:47 am
A play paid tribute to writer Santwana Nigam by staging four stories by her
Santwana Nigam passed away in February and a play, titled Sahej Ka Sargam, which was staged at Alliance Francaise on June 3, paid tribute to her by staging four stories she had written.
For 40 years, Santwana Nigam brought stories from across India into Hindi literature. She translated Mahasweta Devi’s Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Taslima Nasreen’s Nishidh, Ramu Ramanathan’s Comrade Kumbhakarna and Manoj Mitra’s Bagia Bancharam Ki, among others. Her original works ranged from short stories such as Bachhe, published in magazines such as Dharmyug, Sarika, Kadambini and Sahitya Akademi journals, as well as poems on gender equality, female foeticide, and the disappearance of letter writing and its connect with our memories.
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