Anil P. Kaveendra

Anil P. Kaveendra has an MPhil degree in Hindi Translation from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He translated a poetry collection "A Summer of Tigers" (Cheeton Ki Fasale Garma) by Keki N. Daruwalla during his MPhil. He did Master of Art in Hindi Literature from the same university where he worked on literary achievements of Suryakant Tripathi Nirala. He finished his Bachelor of Arts with the subjects Hindi, Education and Ancient History from Ewing Christian College, Allahabad.
He started writing poems at the age of 12 years. His first poetry "Mukaam" was published in Sarita magazine (Delhi Press) when he was just 14 years old. Later he explored different forms of literature like stories, plays. He got skilled in Story Writing through correspondence courses from Kahani Lekhan Mahavidyalaya, Ambala, India. He has got many muktaks, poems, stories and letters published in various famous magazines such as Kadambini, Hans, Sarita, Mukta, Tarun Ghosh, Prastav, Mahakta Anchal, Gudiya, Saras Salil, Unnayan, Navneet etc. He has been active member of Parsona Natya Sansthan, Allahabad and has been involved in acting and script writing for short plays. He has exhibited more than 100 oil paintings and sketch drawings in different famous exhibitions and has won a few prizes in story and poetry writing competitions at college and university levels.
He has worked as Assistant Editor for "Muse of Murmer - Art and Poetry Collection 2008" published by Shaher Dilli and will continue to work for 2009 edition. He has been working as advisor for Indian Sports & Cultural Society since 2008.
He is the founder of Argalaa, a quarterly magazine of jansamvedna and Hindi literature of 21 century and currently working as Editor-in-Chief. Argalaa is a character of one of his novels which he completed recently. In the novel Argalaa plays a girl who falls in love with an artist and wants to become a part of his paintings. He has recently finished three poetry collections Peeli Ghaas, Ek Panne Par Hazar Shabdon Ke Khilaf Hoon Main and Deewaar and all of them are in the process of publishing. Next year he will in Dublin, Ireland for few weeks to do some translation work on William Butler Yeats (Nobel Prize in Literature), an Irish Poet and James Joyce (Author of Ulysses, the most important works of Modernist literature). Currently in his free time he is busy in translating Dubliners by James Joyce.

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