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Our Vision

  • The Poetrywala Foundation is envisaged as a discerning and hospitable space in both digital and real-world mode for practitioners and readers of poetry and translation from India.
  • It is a space devoted to and springing from a hybridity of practice, one that encourages – through translation – multilingual engagement in a spirit of community and collegiality, allowing for the free dissemination of informed and aware criticism of poetry, translation and its various practices.
  • The Foundation recognizes that the poet inhabits a multiplicity of roles: writer, translator, editor, theorist, researcher, archivist, activist – even publisher. What binds them all is the poet as witness through the word.
  • The Foundation shall stand / write / fight against amnesia / mediocrity / superficiality / ignorance (of cultural, literary and political referents) / indifference / lack of rigor.
  • The Foundation shall promote an active understanding of the practise of poets and translators, relating to those concurrent and prior, with an aim to provide context and a matrix within which future generations can situate / locate / read / re-read poetries being written in India today.
  • In so doing, the Foundation will actively record and reflect on our own time, on our own terms, offering a birds’-eye view of the ‘poetry scene’ from the turn of the millennium and onwards.
  • All the participants of the Foundation – poets, translators, artists, readers, writers, donors, well-wishers, partners, cultural organisers – will work towards the promotion of poetry, and in so doing, will promote humanism, internationalism, freedom of expression and solidarity between cultures and communities.

Our Objectives

  • To reclaim, renew and record ongoing contributions of contemporary practices in poetry and translation in India.
  • To provide a platform to multiple voices – from all languages, through a network of connections and collaborations.
  • To present serious poetry in all forms through contextually-framed, intelligently-presented and coherently-designed poetry programmes.
  • To create an archive of poetry and translation of contemporary practices that shall be available for poets, translators and researchers in India and across the world both in physical as well as online forms.
  • To provide a safe space for poets seeking to express themselves freely and without fear of reprisals.

Our Intention

  • To promote, preserve, and disseminate poetry as a practise of individual and collective necessity, urgency and involvement

Our Manifesto

  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall support poetry and translation in various Indian and international language.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall support poets and translators in their poetic and translation practices.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall publish poetry across forms, languages and media.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall publish poetry in translation in various Indian and international languages across forms and media.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall publish books and journals (in hard copy or online) of poetry, research, critical writings, community projects, biographies of poets and creative practitioners.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall actively promote the discourse on contemporary poetic and translation practices in India by commissioning fresh research by poets and scholars in India and abroad.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall create an archive of poetry and translation of contemporary practices that shall be available for poets, translators and researchers in India and across the world both in physical as well as online forms.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall organize Masterclasses by practitioners of poetry and translation in all forms, languages and media as part of educational outreach for younger generations.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall organize poetry and translation contests.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall conceive and award ‘The Poetrywala Foundation Award for Poetry and Translation’ annually.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall mentor and guide talented and aspiring poets from India towards publication.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall organize lecture series on a variety of topics related to poetry, translation, criticism, linguistics, trough interdisciplinary collaborations online and offline.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall organize webinars and online symposia for discussing critical issues in poetry and translation practices with poets, translators and researchers in India and across the world that shall be recorded and streamed across online platforms.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall promote quality poetry through all forms of online media, through social media and similar platforms.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall organize poetry, literature and art festivals in India and abroad with the help of local poets, translators, authors, artists, local governments, corporate, NGOs and other foundations.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall support poets from India to travel in the pursuit or promotion of poetry, for readings, discussions, book-launches, symposia or conferences to different cities, states in India and abroad.
    The Poetrywala Foundation shall support poets and translators doing research in Indian and International languages.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall promote the values of saint poets throughout India such as Tukaram, Dyandeva, Akka Mahadevi, Kabir, Rahim, Guru Nanak, Lalon Fakir, Ramprasad Sen, and Lal Dêd among others.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall promote the values of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, and non- violence in India and throughout the world.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall promote the values of the architect of the Indian Constitution, Babasaheb Ambedkar, in India and throughout the world.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall promote art for peace.
  • The Poetrywala Foundation shall promote poetry as freedom.
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