---------- Forwarded message ----------\ *THE PUBLIC LECTURES* by poet Ashok Vajpeyi are on * Friday, 23rd August from 5 to 6 pm ( ENGLISH - *'Why Literature?" *) and Wednesday, 28th August, **4 to 5.30 pm. ( HINDI '*KABIR and GHALIB: Apani Apani Aag'* ).*
Also, attached goes a separate write-up on the Joint Poetry Reading by poets *Ashok Vajpeyi, Jeet Thayil and Manohar Shetty*, to be held on *Sat, 24th August, at 10.30 am.* All the sessions are scheduled to be held at the *Conference Hall, Administrative Building, Goa University. *They are part of the Bakibab Borkar Chair of Comparative Literature. Thanks again, Isabel Goa University brings poets and their poetry to lovers of literature in Goa. Under the Bakibab Borkar Chair of Comparative Literature, Goa University is organizing a joint poetry reading by noted Indian poets Ashok Vajpeyi, Jeet Thayil and Manohar Shetty*. ASHOK VAJPEYI* is a poet in Hindi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi>, essayist, literary-cultural critic, and also a noted cultural and arts administrator <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_administrator>, and a former civil servant. He was Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalit_Kala_Akademi>. He has published over 23 books of poetry, criticism and art, and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahitya_Akademi_Award> in 1994 for his poetry collection, *Kahin Nahin Wahin*. His poetry collections include, *Shaher Ab Bhi Sambhavana Hai* (1966), *Tatpurush* (1986), *Bahuri Akela*(1992), *Ibarat Se Giri Matrayen*, *Ummeed ka Doosra Naam* (2004) and *Vivaksha* (2006). He has also published works on literary and art criticism. Poet Vajpeyi is in Goa to deliver a course of lectures on Comparative Literature. *JEET THAYIL* is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the author of four collections: *These Errors Are Correct* (Tranquebar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquebar>, 2008), * English* (2004, Penguin India <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_India>, Rattapallax Press<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rattapallax_Press&action=edit&redlink=1>, New York, 2004),*Apocalypso* (Ark, 1997) and *Gemini* (Viking Penguin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Penguin>, 1992). His first novel, *Narcopolis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcopolis> ,* (Faber & Faber <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faber_%26_Faber>, 2012), won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize.* MANOHAR SHETTY* has published five books of poems, including *Domestic Creatures* (Oxford University Press, New Delhi). His poems have been widely published and anthologized. In the UK his poems have appeared in 'London Magazine', 'Poetry Review', 'Wasafiri' and 'Poetry Wales'. He has edited a special edition on English language poets of India for 'Poetry Wales'. In the United States his poems have appeared in 'Chelsea', 'Rattapallax', 'Fulcrum', 'Shenandoah' and 'New Letters', and in 'Helix' in Australia. Several anthologies feature his work, notably *The Oxford-India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets* (OUP, New Delhi). His poems have been translated into Italian, Finnish, German and Slovenian. He has been a Homi Bhaba Fellow and a Senior Sahitya Akademi Fellow. The Joint Reading is scheduled for Saturday, 23rd August 2013, (10.30 am to 1.00 pm) at the Conference Hall (Administrative Building), Goa University. It is to be held under the newly launched Visiting Research Professors Programme. It is open to all lovers of literature.