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Cynthia Sharp

Cynthia Sharp is the author of Ordinary Light, a first-prize winner in the SCWES Book Awards as well as in the International Book Impact Awards in the Poetry and Sustainability categories, Rainforest in Russet and The Light Bearers in the Sand Dollar Graviton. Her poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction can be found in many literary journals including CV2, Toasted Cheese, untethered and The Pitkin Review, while her dramatic work has been performed throughout North America. She was a long-time member and independent film producer at Video In Studios in Vancouver where she taught screenwriting, storyboarding and editing and assisted with numerous independent productions. She holds an MFA in creative writing and an Honors BA in literature.

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Canadian Lit Fest 2024 Note and Pics

The second edition of the Canadian South Asian Literary Festival 2024 happened in Art Gallery of Burlington on August 17-18, 2024.

This year’s festival presented a special theme based on Dharma Literature.

The guest writers were, Arif Aajakia, Tufail Chaturvedi, Ami Ganatra, Neal Nathan and Kushal Mehra. Nalanda Awards 2024 were given to all guest speakers. There were over a dozen conclave discussions such as challenges to Dharma, Hindu civilization’s place in inclusive world order, Urdu and Hindi Literature in Canada, Punjabi language and Literature’s role in Canada, South Asians’ contributions to Canadian Literature, Urdu as a language of region not religion, Kashmiri Literary Journey through exodus of Pandits, New aspects of Indic history, Kushal Mehra’s podcast, Tahir Gora’s Bilatakalluf show on stage, Sangita Iyer’s documentary discussion on Gurukul Education, The festival featured annual Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English poetry session as well. Neal Nathan’s Novel Raaz Mahal and Dr Sangita Sharma’s poetry collection were launched during this festival. Consul General of India to Toronto, Mr. Siddhartha Nath and High Commissioner of India to Canada were the chief guests on both days of the Festival.

"It was an enriching experience for the hosts and guests alike," observed Tahir Aslam Gora, co-founder of the Festival, along with Haleema Sadia Gora, adding, "It is a way of showcasing the rich diversity and multilingual talents of the Diaspora for the Canadian audiences who turned up in good numbers for each session."

Setu, September 2024

The Canadian South Asian Literary Festival 2023: A Brief Report

Organised by the noted author and media-personality Tahir Gora, TV host Halima Sadia and their dedicated team, the inaugural edition of the Canadian South Asian Literary Festival-2023, held from August 25-27 in Brampton, attracted major talents and footfalls from the different demographics and regions that characterise South Asia and its rich and complex realities.

The multilingual, multi-session, mega event proved to be a critical success in terms of serious and engaging conversations on things political and literary, spanning continents and cultures and writing systems encoded in the rich traditions of the languages spoken in the region, in the context of their host country Canada. There were discussions and independent poetry symposia in Punjabi, Hindi, Sindhi, Bengali, Urdu, Kashmiri and English. The flavours were enchanting!

“It was an overall fruitful and productive exercise,” says Tahir Gora, also the CEO of Tag TV, main sponsor of the Fest, “We could conduct meaningful conversations on identities, geographies, linguistic and literary heritage of the writers coming from South Asia and hope to take forward this legacy in coming years through the support of authors and readers alike here. South Asian diaspora is strong and so is their contribution to the Canadian landscape. Diversity is the key term.”

The High Commissioner of India, H.E. Sanjay Kumar Verma and Consul General of India, Mr. Siddhartha Nath inaugurated the Nalanda Awards Ceremony and the festival. There were important sessions, well-attended and moderated, on issues such as South Asian Literature outside South Asia, Canadian Landscape for South Asian Writers, Revisiting the legacy of Iconic Canadian South Asian Writers, Revisiting South Asian Peace Possibilities, South Asian Poetic Sensibilities in Canada, and Society’s well-being by South Asian Writers. The festival also arranged Kashmiri Writers’ Conclave, Bengali Writers’ Conclave, Punjabi Writers’ Conclave and Sindhi Writers’ Conclave. The peer participation was another interesting feature. The discerning audiences loved it all---dialogues, poetry, prize distributions.

Prominent South Asian origin writers such as Anubha Mehta, Ashfaq Hussain, Ujjal Dosanjh, Sam Mukherjee, Dheeraj Sharma, Irfan Sattar, Meena Chopra, Barrister Hamid Bashani, Silmy Abdullah, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Aruna Papp, Sumaiya Matin, Ajaib Singh Chatha, Dr. Sunil Sharma, Subrata Das, Surjit Kaur, Hasan Mujtaba, Manoshi Chatterji, Vidya Dhar, Juss Kaur, Shailja Saksena, Kushal Mehra and many others participated in it.

Also 21 Nalanda Awards were given to the literary figures for their singular achievements.

1- Best Author - Ujjal Dosanjh

2- Best Novelist – Anubha Mehta

3- Lifetime Achievement for Urdu Literature - Ashfaqe Hussain

4- Best Contemporary Poet - Irfan Sattar

5- Best Kashmiri Author – Hamid Bashani

6- Best South Asian Non-Fiction Author – Ishtiaq Ahmed

7- Best Research Author – Dheeraj Sharma

8- Best Autobiographer – Aruna Papp

9- Best contributor for Punjabi Language – Ajaib Singh Chatha

10- Best Canadian Bengali Author – Subrata Kumar Das

11- Best Hindi Poet - Meena Chopra

12- Best Online Literary Magazine - Setu

13- Best Literary Graphic Designer - Shivam Lakhanpal

14- Best Literary Art Author - Juss Kaur

15- Best Literary Activist - Vidya Dhar

16- Best Sindhi Poet - Hasan Mujtaba

17- Best Punjabi Poet - Surjit Kaur

18- Best Literary Anchor - Dr Shailja Saksena

Setu, August 2023

Cultural News: Canadian South Asian Literary Festival-2023

The Vision and Mission:

“I am happy to be the chief organizer of the first Canadian South Asian Literary Festival which is happening in Century Gardens Recreation Centre, Brampton, Ontario on August 26 & 27, 2023. This is the first of its kind to present South Asian writers, scholars, and intellectuals’ role in shaping Canada’s collective heritage. Almost 4 million Canadian South Asians in Canada’s 38 million population are contributing humongous wealth in our society. Canadian South Asian writers, scholars, artists, and intellectuals are also creating an overwhelming wisdom and depth in our society. Also, I would like to get it established and recognized that our Greater Bharat, what we call today South Asia, has created intellectual and business entrepreneurial impact on Canada. To me, South Asia is the region shaped by Bharati civilization. So our Canadian South Asian Literary Festival should be a manifesto of Bharati Civilization as well as Canadian values are part of our heritage now.”

Tahir Gora

CEO Canadian South Asian Literary Festival 2023

Canadian South Asian Literary Festival: A Brief

The first ever Canadian South Asian Literary Festival is happening in Century Gardens Recreation Centre, 340 Vodden Street East, Brampton, Ontario on August 26 & 27, 2023. This is the first of its kind to present South Asian writers, scholars, and intellectuals’ role in shaping Canada’s collective heritage. Almost 4 million Canadian South Asians in Canada’s 38 million population are contributing humongous wealth in our society. Canadian South Asian writers, scholars, artists, and intellectuals are also creating an overwhelming wisdom and depth in our society.

The festival features literary panel discussions, literary awards, Mushaira/ Kavi Darbar, Ghazal Music, Book stalls and much more. More than 70 Writers and Poets of South Asian origin shall be participating in the festival.

There are special sessions during the festival as follows:

Gala Speakers:

Welcome Note from Haleema Sadia, Tahir Gora’s Speech, Dheeraj Sharma’s Speech, Ujjal Dosanjh Speech, Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed Speech, Bengali Writer Speech, Mini Mushaira, Jazz and Sitar, Dinner

Festival Schedule:

Saturday, August 26

Session 1: 10:30AM : Canadian Landscape for South Asian Writers

Session 2: 11:30AM: Revisiting the legacy of Iconic Canadian South Asian Writers

Session 3: 1:30 PM to 2:30PM Sindhi Writers’ Conclave

Session 4: 2:30 PM to 3:30PM Bangladeshi Writers’ Conclave

Session 5: 3:30PM to 4:30PM Kashmiri Writers’ Conclave

Literary Awards 4:30PM onwards

Mushaira / Kavi Darbar 6PM

Sunday: August 27,

Session 1: 10AM – Revisiting South Asia’s Peace Possibilities

Session 2: 11AM - South Asian Poetic Sensibilities in Canada: Emerging Areas

12PM: South Asian Media’ Role in Canada: Re-thinking the agenda.

2PM: Society’s well being by South Asian Writers

3PM: Gujarati Writers’ Conclave

Century Gardens Recreation Centre, 340 Vodden Street East, Brampton

www.canadianliteraryfestival.com

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094402865321

Setu, July 2023

Ernie Brill

Ernie Brill publishes fiction and poetry widely in the US and Canada (River Styx, Atherton Review, Dart, Ice Flow Press (Toronto), Z Magazine, Oxford University, Other Voices, pif, Issu, flowering song press, Harbor Publications (Brit. Columbia).

His pioneering collection about race relations among hospital workers, I Looked Over Jordan And Other Stories, (Boston: South End Press, 1980), was optioned by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee for their PBS television series “With Ossie and Ruby”. Ms. Dee adopted and performed Brill’s story “Crazy Hattie Enters The Ice Age” to critical acclaim.

Brill earned a BA and MA in English from San Francisco State College and was earnestly involved in the historic five month strike against racism there that won the country’s first Dept. of Black Studies,and an entire School of Ethnic Studies.

Brill won a $4,000 CAPS FICTION grant from the New York State Creative Arts Public Service

His favorite writers include Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Pablo Neruda, Mahmoud Darwish, Sterling A. Brown, Hyesoon Kim, Pedro Pietri, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Damon Runyon. And Meridel LeSueur.

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Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca

Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was born and raised in a Jewish family in Mumbai. She was educated at the Queen Mary School, Mumbai, received her BA in English and French, an MA from the University of Bombay in English and American Literature, and a Master’s in Education from Oxford Brookes University, England. She has taught English, French and Spanish in various colleges and schools in India and overseas, in a teaching career spanning over four decades. Her first book, Family Sunday and Other Poems was published in 1989, with a second edition in 1990. She has read her poems for the All India Radio in Mumbai, and her poem ‘Family Sunday’ was featured in an Anthology of Women’s Writing. Her poems have also appeared in Destiny Poets, U.K, Poetry India, SETU, Café Dissensus, among others. She writes Poetry and Short Fiction. Kavita is the daughter of the late poet, Nissim Ezekiel. She manages her Poetry page at https://www.facebook.com/kemendoncapoetry/

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John Clark Smith

John Clark Smith grew up in Rochester, New York, U.S.A., but his heritage originates in western Pennsylvania, the setting for Orange Dawn.

John’s book, Taking Action, was published in September, 2019. It is a collection of stories appearing in reviews and journals between 2016-2019. Prior to 2016, when he began to submit his stories, plays and poetry, his graduate studies on the philosopher Charles Peirce, the ancient thinker Origen, and a translation from the ancient Greek and Latin were published as well as several scholarly articles.

He is a graduate of Syracuse University, Duke University, the University of Toronto at St. Michael’s College (Ph.D.), has a diploma from the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Humber College, and an A.R.C.T. in music from the Royal Conservatory of Music. John has served as a Managing Director (England), Project Manager (China), Music Director (U.S.A.), and a University Lecturer on how the arts can transform us.

John lives with his wife Susan and is the proud father of daughters Tammy and Amara, and son John.

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Tahir Aslam Gora

Tahir Gora is an author, journalist and political activist. He is the founder of Canadian Thinkers’ Forum (CTF) and TAG TV Channel. Some of his shows in Urdu-Hindi languages got over 200 million views in South East Asia. He is a fierce critic of Islamists’ Jihadi ideology. He is a co-author of the book, ‘Submission – Threats of Political Islam to Canada and the United States.’His Novel (Urdu/Hindi) ‘Rung Mahal’ portraits dilemma of multiculturalism in the west. He is working on a new novel that is depicting ISI role in terrorism in Afghanistan, Kashmir and around the globe. He is a strong proponent of freedom of speech. He calls himself a Hindu born in Muslim faith and a Canadian Punjabi of Indian heritage born in political Pakistan.

He is a winner of the Setu Special Award for Excellence (2019).

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Leonard Dabydeen

Leonard Dabydeen, Guyanese-Canadian poet and member of The Society of Classical Poets (USA), Life Member of MetVerse Muse (India); member of Muse India Journal; member of Muse-Pie Press (Shot Glass Journal and Fib Review); contributor to Gandhi Way Newsletter (UK); Triveni Journal (India); Our Poetry Archive (https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com) ; Pratilipi; Galaktika Poetike “ATUNIS” (http://atunispoetry.com); Setu Bilingual Literary Journal (USA); blog: https://ldabydeen.wordpress.com (Poems Jogging in the Mind).

Free-lance writer and book reviewer; author of Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems (2012), and Searching For You, A Collection of Tetractys and Fibonacci Poems (2015).

Blog: . https://ldabydeen.wordpress.com/

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Meena Chopra

Meena Chopra is a Mississauga based visual artist & poet with an unbridled passion for words, space, colours and forms. She has been practising her poetry and visual art for over three decades now. She writes poetry both in English and her native language Hindi. She has authored three poetry books and has co-edited one anthology. Her poetry has been published in many literary journals world wide. Her poetry has been translated into German and Urdu. She is a qualified artist educator and dedicates her time in teaching and working with special need students. She has been a recipient many recognitions for her contribution in art, poetry writing and community advocacy in arts and culture both in India and Canada. Amongst many others, recently she has been awarded for her distinguished work for literature and arts by 'National Ethenic Press and Media Council of Canada'. She was received 1st prize for her painting from 'Visual Arts Mississauga' in celebration of Canada's 150 years in 2017. She has been the finalist for MARTY's Awards 2019. Her visual art and poetry has been very well recognized by Charles Pachter, Canadian Master Artist and Order of Canada Honoree, in the his glorious forward of her newest poetry and art collection SHE! The Restless streak released during the fall of 2018. She has also been attached with media, advertising and education for over three decades. She has been hosting and producing a popular musical ethnic radio program in Canada and publishing an entertainment weekly called StarBuzz.

She passionately believes that art is the best way to bring communities together on a common platform and has directed and organized several art events to that effect.

Facebook: @SheTheRestlesStreak Twitter: @meenachopra Facebook: @meena.chopra.artist

Instagram: meena_artist_author YouTube: Meena Chopra

Website: www.meenachopra-artist.com SHE! The Restless Streak poetry and art collection (New)

मीना चोपड़ा एक मिसिसॉगा, कनाडा निवासी विसुअल आर्टिस्ट और कवि हैं, जिनके पास शब्द, रंग और रूप का एक अथक संसार है। वे तीन दशकों से अपनी कविता और कला के क्षेत्र में कार्यरत हैं। वे अंग्रेजी और अपनी मूल भाषा हिंदी दोनों में कविता और लेख लिखती हैं। उनके तीन काव्य संकलन प्रकाशित हो चुके हैं, एक हिंदी और दो अंग्रेजी। उन्होंने एक संकलन का सह-संपादन भी किया है। उनकी कविताएँ कई साहित्यिक पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित हुई हैं और जर्मन और उर्दू में अनूदित भी हैं। वे एक आर्टिस्ट एजुकेटर हैं और आजकल 'स्पेशल नीड' वाले छात्रों के कला शिक्षण में अपना समय समर्पित करती हैं। वे भारत और कनाडा में कई कला, साहित्यक और संस्कृतिक संस्थाओं से जुड़ी रही हैं, कई पदों पर कार्यरत हैं| अपने महत्वपूर्ण योगदान के लिए हाल ही में उन्हें 'नेशनल एथेनिक प्रेस एंड मीडिया काउंसिल ऑफ कनाडा' द्वारा साहित्य (हिंदी व अंग्रेजी दोनों)और कला में विशिष्ट कार्य के लिए सम्मानित किया गया है। उन्हें 2017 में कनाडा के 150 वर्षों के जश्न में 'विजुअल आर्ट्स मिसिसॉगा' से उनकी पेंटिंग के लिए प्रथम पुरस्कार मिला। वे कनाडा के मार्टी अवार्ड्स 2019 के लिए फाइनलिस्ट रही हैं। अपने जीवन काल में वह तीस वर्षों तक मीडिया, एडवरटाइजिंग और शिक्षण से जुड़ी रही हैं। वे रेडियो होस्ट भी रही हैं और 'starbuzz' नामक साप्ताहिक पत्रिका का प्रकाशन भी करती रही हैं।
उनका मानना है कि 'कला का साझा मंच' विभिन्न समुदायों और उनकी विभिन्नताओं को क़रीब लाकर समझने का सबसे अच्छा तरीका है और वह ऐसे कई बेहतरीन और सफल आयोजन कर चुकी हैं।

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April Bulmer

April Bulmer is an award-winning Canadian writer who has had over a dozen books of poetry and prose published. Her most recent collection of poetry is called Out of Darkness, Light (Hidden Brook Press, John B. Lee Signature Series, 2018), which was a finalist in the Washington-based Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Spirituality category. She holds Master=s degrees in creative writing, religious studies and theological studies. Some of her writing is known for its themes of feminist spirituality. Her work has appeared in such prestigious journals, magazines and newspapers as Malahat Review, Arc, PRISM international, Contemporary Verse 2, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Anglican Theological Review, Grand Magazine, Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. April is originally from Toronto, where she worked at Maclean=s magazine and TVOntario, but she has lived in Cambridge, Ontario for almost 25 years. She is often employed as a poetry judge and is a poetry editor for the online magazine called Devour: Art and Lit Canada. She writes most days.

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ओटावा में विश्व हिंदी दिवस

(बाँये से दाँये) उपन्यासकार डॉ. हंसा दीप, कवि प्रो. जगमोहन हुमड़, धर्मपाल महेंद्र जैन,
श्री विकास स्वरूप, श्री सुनील शर्मा, द्वितीय सचिव (संस्कृति) और कवि डॉ. वीरेंद्र भारती

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कनाडा की राजधानी ओटावा में विश्व हिंदी दिवस के अवसर पर बोलते हुए सुप्रसिद्ध उपन्यासकार एवं भारत के उच्चायुक्त श्री विकास स्वरूप ने कहा कि लोक तत्व से जुड़ कर ही कोई भाषा विश्व भाषा बन सकती है। यह सरकारी अध्यादेशों से तो संभव नहीं है। हिंदी राष्ट्रभाषा, राजभाषा एवं संपर्क भाषा के सोपानों से होते हुए अब विश्व भाषा बनने की ओर अग्रसर है। उन्होंने कनाडा में हिंदी के बढ़ते हुए वर्चस्व के प्रति प्रसन्नता व्यक्त की।

इस अवसर पर शिवना प्रकाशन द्वारा प्रकाशित श्री धर्मपाल महेंद्र जैन के काव्य संकलन 'इस समय तक' का विमोचन किया गया। श्री संतोष के सुमधुर गीतों की प्रस्तुति के साथ सर्वश्री जगमोहन हुमड़, धर्म जैन, सरन घई, अखिल भंडारी, गोपाल बघेल, संदीप त्यागी, सुश्री रश्मि, मीना चोपड़ा, डॉ. शैलजा सक्सेना, कृष्णा वर्मा, डॉ. साधना जोशी, भुवनेश्वरी पांडे, सविता अग्रवाल आदि कवियों के रचना पाठ ने कार्यक्रम को यादगार बना दिया। हिंदी मंच कनाडा के अध्यक्ष डॉ. वीरेंद्र भारती ने इस उत्सव का सफल संचालन करते हुए अपने हास-परिहास से श्रोताओं को बाँधे रखा।

सेतु, जनवरी 2019

हंसा दीप

डॉ. हंसा दीप

हिन्दी साहित्य में पीएच.डी. डॉ. हंसा दीप टोरंटो, कैनेडा
यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ टोरंटो में लेक्चरर के पद पर कार्यरत हैं। पूर्व में वे यॉर्क विश्वविद्यालय, टोरंटो में हिन्दी कोर्स डायरेक्टर एवं भारत में भोपाल विश्वविद्यालय और विक्रम विश्वविद्यालय के विश्वविद्यालयों में सहायक प्राध्यापक रह चुकी हैं।

लोक साहित्य पर पुस्तक: “सौंधवाड़ी लोक धरोहर”

उपन्यास: “बंद मुट्ठी”, “कुबेर”, “केसरिया बालम” एवं “काँच के घर”।

उपन्यास “बंद मुट्ठी” गुजराती भाषा में अनूदित। केसरिया बालम मराठी भाषा में अनूदित।

कहानी संग्रह: “चश्मे अपने-अपने”, “प्रवास में आसपास”, “शत प्रतिशत”, “उम्र के शिखर पर खड़े लोग”, “छोड़ आए वो गलियाँ”, “चेहरों पर टँगी तख्तियाँ”, “मेरी पसंदीदा कहानियाँ”, “टूटी पेंसिल।”

“अधजले ठुड्डे” कहानी संग्रह वाणी प्रकाशन से शीघ्र प्रकाश्य।

कई साझा कहानी संग्रह। हिन्दी की कई प्रतिष्ठित पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में रचनाओं के प्रकाशन के साथ, मराठी, पंजाबी, बांग्ला, अंग्रेजी, तमिल एवं उर्दू पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में अनूदित रचनाएँ निरंतर प्रकाशित।

पंजाबी में अनूदित कहानी संग्रह: पूरन विराम तों पहिलां

मराठी में अनूदित दो कहानी संग्रह: आणि शेवटी तात्पर्य एवं मन गाभऱ्यातील शिल्पे

“हंसा दीप का उपन्यास साहित्य”: डॉ. दीपक पाण्डेय एवं डॉ. नूतन पाण्डेय

“डॉ. हंसा दीप के कृतित्व पर विमर्श” – विजय कुमार तिवारी

“हंसा दीप का कहानी साहित्य”: डॉ. दीपक पाण्डेय एवं डॉ. नूतन पाण्डेय

संपादन: “कनाडा की चयनित रचनाएँ”, विश्वरंग भोपाल की पुस्तक का संपादन

कथारंग, देश-देशांतर की कहानियाँ और विमर्श पुस्तकों का संपादन। शब्द घोष, त्रैमासिक पत्रिका के प्रवासी विशेषांक का संपादन। कथा पाठ में आज ऑडियो पत्रिका का डेढ़ वर्ष तक संपादन एवं कथा पाठ।

पत्रिकाओं के संपादक मंडल में – रचना उत्सव, अन्तरदेश, समकालीन हस्तक्षेप, शब्द घोष।

भारत में आकाशवाणी से कई कहानियों व नाटकों का प्रसारण।

कई अंग्रेज़ी फ़िल्मों के लिए हिन्दी में सब-टाइटल्स का अनुवाद।

कैनेडियन विश्वविद्यालयों में हिन्दी छात्रों के लिए अंग्रेज़ी-हिन्दी में पाठ्य-पुस्तकों के कई संस्करण प्रकाशित।

पुरस्कार/सम्मान

• राष्ट्रीय निर्मल वर्मा सम्मान 2022

• कथारंग सृजन सम्मान - 2023

• विश्व हिंदी सचिवालय, मॉरीशस की अंतरराष्ट्रीय रिपोर्ताज लेखन प्रतियोगिता 2023 में रिपोर्ताज पुरस्कृत

• जयपुर साहित्य सम्मान, 2023 (कहानी)

• पुरवाई कथा सम्मान, 2022

• जयपुर साहित्य सम्मान, 2022 (उपन्यास)

• शत प्रतिशत कहानी संग्रह-शांति-गया सम्मान 2021

• सर्वश्रेष्ठ कहानी-कमलेश्वर स्मृति कथा पुरस्कार 2020

• किस्सागंज पुस्तक शृंखला भाग1 - विजेता 2019

• धनपति देवी स्मृति-कथा साहित्य सम्मान 2019

• विश्व हिंदी सचिवालय, मॉरीशस की अंतरराष्ट्रीय कहानी प्रतियोगिता 2019 में कहानी पुरस्कृत

• कमलेश्वर उत्तम कथा पुरस्कार 2018

पता:

Dr. Hansa Deep

22 Farrell Avenue,

North York, Toronto,

ON – M2R1C8, Canada

001 647 213 1817

ईमेल: hansadeep8@gmail.com

लेखकवृंद

धर्मपाल महेंद्र जैन * Dharmpal Mahendra Jain

Dharm is a Toronto-based author who writes in Hindi and English. He has nine published books: seven collections of satirical essays and two collections of poetry. Dharm is also a columnist for five prestigious Hindi journals. His English poetry has been previously published in Setu, Poetry Pause, Fresh Voices, Harbinger Asylum, Akshara, Impspired, Piker Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Dissident Voice.

जन्म: 1952, रानापुर, जिला झाबुआ, मध्य प्रदेश
शिक्षा: भौतिकी; हिन्दी एवं अर्थशास्त्र में (प्रावीण्य सूची) स्नातकोत्तर

प्रकाशन: “गणतंत्र के तोते”, “चयनित व्यंग्य रचनाएँ”, “डॉलर का नोट”, “भीड़ और भेड़िए”, “इमोजी की मौज में” “दिमाग वालो सावधान” एवं “सर क्यों दाँत फाड़ रहा है?” (7 व्यंग्य संकलन) एवं “अधलिखे पन्ने”, “कुछ सम कुछ विषम”, “इस समय तक” (3 कविता संकलन) प्रकाशित। तीस से अधिक साझा संकलनों में सहभागिता। नवनीत, कादम्बिनी, आजकल, लहक, अक्षरा, कथा क्रम, पहल, व्यंग्य यात्रा, अट्टहास, पक्षधर, साक्षात्कार, यथावत, समावर्तन, कला समय, गंभीर समाचार, दुनिया इन दिनों, सृजन सरोकार, साहित्य अमृत, विश्व गाथा, विभोम स्वर आदि में रचनाएँ प्रकाशित।

स्तंभ लेखन: चाणक्य वार्ता (पाक्षिक), सेतु (मासिक), विश्वगाथा व विश्वा में स्तंभ लेखन।

संपादन: 2021 व 2022 में विश्व गाथा के व्यंग्य विशेषांक का अतिथि संपादन। 1976-1979 में शाश्वत धर्म मासिक में प्रबंध संपादक। स्वदेश दैनिक (इन्दौर) में 1972 में संपादन मंडल में।

सम्मान: सियाराम व्यंग्य भूषण सम्मान (2023), जयपुर साहित्य सम्मान (2022), रीड एक्सेलेंस अवॉर्ड (2020), शांति-गया स्मृति कृति सम्मान (2019)

संप्रति: सेवानिवृत्त, स्वतंत्र लेखन। दीपट्रांस में कार्यपालक। पूर्व में बैंक ऑफ इंडिया, न्यू यॉर्क में सहायक उपाध्यक्ष एवं उनकी कई भारतीय शाखाओं में प्रबंधक।

स्वयंसेवा: जैना, जैन सोसायटी ऑफ टोरंटो व कैनेडा की मिनिस्ट्री ऑफ करेक्शंस के तहत आयएफसी में पूर्व निदेशक। न्यूयॉर्क में सेवाकाल के दौरान भारतीय कौंसलावास की राजभाषा समिति और परमानेंट मिशन ऑफ इंडिया की सांस्कृतिक समिति में सदस्य। तत्कालीन इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ बैंकर्स में परीक्षक।

सम्पर्क:ईमेल: dharmtoronto@gmail.com; दूरभाष: +1 416 225 2415

पता: 22 Farrell Avenue, Toronto M2R1C8, Canada [टोरंटो (कनाडा)]

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