On 29th November, the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) hosted a grand book release event for Sukrita Paul Kumar’s ‘Yellow’ at ICCR Kolkata Library.
The event was segmented into book release, panel discussion, reading poetry from the book and reading translated poems from her book by eminent city poets.
The presence of Sanjukta Dasgupta, President of IPPL, Nishi Pulugurtha, Secretary, Amita Ray, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Tania Chakravertty, Madhumita Majumdar, Sanghita Sanyal and the poet Sukrita herself exhibited an eclectic and interesting panel discussion.
City poets, Ajanta Paul, Chandrani Mukherjee, Sudeshna Chakravorty, Pallabi Nandy, Rohit Dey, moderators Averi Saha, Sarbani Chakravarti and Rituparna Khan rendered beautiful poemlets from Sukrita’s collection, ‘Yellow’.
Widely published poets and translators, Navamalati Neog Chakravarty, Mandakini Bhattacherya, Madhu Sriwastav, Nabanita Sengupta, Aparna Singh and Sufia Khatoon tranlsated and rendered selected poemlets from her book. Multilingual poet and translator Rajorshi Patranabis was an inabsentia poet whose translations were rendered by Averia Saha.
The event was a phenomenal success and added another hat to the literary and creative credits of IPPL and the organisation was honoured to host Sukrita’s book evet.
No wonder, Jaydeep Sarangi, the emcee of the event and Vice President of IPPL rightly remarked
“Sukrita is an award winning poet writing for more than three decades. She makes poetry speak to her readers. Her use of lower/small case is distinctive and poignant. Her language is redolent with refreshing metaphors from nature, human relations, social roles and aesthetics of silences. Her role as the guest editor of the Indian Literature is highly commendable. She gives room for writers and translators from different plural spaces.”