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Vijay Dan Detha

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Vijay Dan Detha

Vijay Dan Detha, shown here with translator Christi A. Merrill, is one of India's leading story writers and among the most eminent writing in Rajasthani today. Winner of a Sahitya Akademi award, he is co-founder with Komal Kothari of the Rupayan Samsthan, an institution that documents Rajasthani folklore, art and music. He is the author of Baatan ri Phulwadi (A Garden of Tales), a fourteen-volume collection of stories that draws on the folklore and spoken dialects of Rajasthan. Several collections of Dan Detha's stories (including Uljhan and Duvidha) have been translated into Hindi by the poet Kailash Kabir, where they have enjoyed wide critical acclaim.

Articles by Vijay Dan Detha

A True Calling
By Vijay Dan Detha
Nothing happens to a story if all you do is listen. Nothing happens if all you do is read, or memorize word for word. What matters is if you make the heart of the story part of your very life. This story…
Translated from Rajasthani by Christi A. Merrill & Kailash Kabir
Untold Hitlers
By Vijay Dan Detha
The five were only men. Some younger, some older, all between thirty and fifty. The eldest was beginning to gray here and there, but the others had heads of hair black as bumblebees. They looked like…
Translated from Rajasthani by Christi A. Merrill & Kailash Kabir
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