The Literary Club of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai invites you to an Online talk: An evening of Poetics through Mustansir Dalvi’s “Walk”: Linguistic polyglossia and a shared fraternity in transit  Friday 12th November at 6 pm on Zoom

The Literary Club of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai is delighted to invite you to an evening of poetics through Mustansir Dalvi’s latest collection of poems ”Walk.”   We will host Mustansir Dalvi and his co- translators Hemant Divate and Udayan Thakker, they will recite poems from Walk and be in conversation with poet Yamini Dand Shah.

To quote Yamini: “Walk is a reflection on the migrant crisis amidst the lockdown across various states in ‘unhiki zubani.’ There are regional ways of enunciation and venting emotions: 'Chalvaliche lakshan’, proletarian modifications to language, ‘Kavita na marge.’

Solidarity runs high in cabling the intersubjective and the collective, it is a moving convoy of the human condition.”

According to author Maithreyi Karnoor:  “(The) Year 2020 is Pedestrian Maharaja of our times and Mustansir Dalvi is its court chronicler.  This collection erases the gap between souls and soles.”

The  discussion will  take  place  in  four  quintessential  Mumbai  languages  as  incorporated  in  this quadrilingual book, inviting listeners attuned to Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi and Anglo “phonic” nuances.

Please join us for this event.   We look forward to your active engagement and contribution to the session.  The Zoom link is given below:

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81461533682?pwd=V3JJNGtKNmpxbGRJOUd4SlByUGFLdz09

Meeting ID: 814 6153 3682       
Passcode: 887766

- Meenal Kshirsagar , Vice President of the Society  & Chairperson - ASM LitClub   
- Dr Usha R Vijailakshmi, Officiating Hon. Secretary The Asiatic Society of Mumbai

The Literary Club of the Asiatic Society of Mumba in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies, University of Mumbai and the Italian Cultural Institute invites you to an Online talk: Politics and religion, literature and poetics in Dante's Commedia A reading from the prologues of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso by Dr. Roberto Bertilaccio on 27th October 2021 at 6 pm on Zoom
The Literary Club of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai is pleased to invite you to a talk by Dr. Roberto Bertilaccio on Politics and religion, literature and poetics in Dante's Commedia: A reading from the prologues of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. The lecture will be held on Wednesday, 27th October 2021 at 6 pm on a Zoom platform.
Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in Italy, he was also a prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher and political thinker. His Divine Comedy originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia), a monumental epic poem, is one of the world’s most important works of literature. The poem may be read as an allegory, taking the form of a journey through hell, purgatory and paradise. It is a profound Christian vision of humankind’s temporal and eternal destiny.
We are happy and proud to have, in our collection at the Asiatic Society, one of the manuscripts of Dante’s great work. It is indeed one of our prized possessions.
The lecture will be divided into two sections. The first part will introduce Dante’s life and times in the historical Florentine context of the 14th century. The second will focus on Dante’s poetics and analyse the literary features of the Commedia, through a reading of the prologues of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Dr. Roberto Bertilaccio holds an M.A. degree in Italian Literature from Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Roma (Italia) and a Ph.D. in Theory and Critics of Literature from Università degli Studi, Siena (Italia). He was deputed by the Ministry of External Affairs of Italy to teach at the University of Mumbai, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia University for 9 years from 2008-2017.
Dr Bertilaccio is a Member of the Advisory Board and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for European Studies.

Join Zoom for the programme at 5.45 p.m.:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82531361443?pwd=OFhSSmw5bmh1TVVVYlJWa3YvTy9uQT09
Meeting ID: 825 3136 1443
Passcode: 172068

- Dr Usha R Vijailakshmi, Officiating Hon. Secretary, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- Meenal Kshirsagar, Vice President of the Society & Chairperson - ASM LitClub