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Ranjit Hoskote (born 29 March 1969) is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating Art. Their written critiques or reviews are published in newspapers magazines books and on web sites Curator (from Latin cura care means manager overseer. A curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e

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Biography

Ranjit Hoskote was born in Mumbai and educated at the Bombay Scottish School, Elphinstone College, where he read for a BA in Politics, and the University of Bombay, where he took an MA in English Literature and Aesthetics. Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial The Bombay Scottish School is a prestigious private co-educational school located in Mumbai, India Elphinstone College is an institution of higher education affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The University of Mumbai (मुंबई विद्यापीठ(formerly University of Bombay) is a University situated in Maharashtra state of [1] Hoskote belongs to the younger generation of Indian poets who began to publish their work during the early 1990s. [2] [3] His work has been published in numerous Indian and international journals, including Poetry Review London, Wasafiri, Poetry Wales, Nthposition, The Iowa Review, Green Integer Review, Fulcrum (annual), Rattapallax, Lyric Poetry Review, West Coast Line, Kavya Bharati and Indian Literature. The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes stories poems essays and reviews many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies Major contributors Well-known contributors to the early issues of Fulcrum included Pam Brown, Paul Muldoon, John Kinsella, Brian Henry His poems have also appeared in German translation in Die Zeit, Akzente, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Wespennest and Art & Thought/ Fikrun-wa-Fann. DIE ZEIT (diː tsait in German literally The Time more idiomatically The Times) is a German nationwide weekly Newspaper that The Neue Zürcher Zeitung ( NZZ) is a major German language Swiss daily newspaper based in Zürich. He is the author of four collections of poetry, has translated the Marathi poet Vasant Abaji Dahake, co-translated the German novelist and essayist Ilija Trojanow, and edited an anthology of contemporary Indian verse. Vasant Abaji Dahake (born 1942 is a Marathi poet playwright short story writer artist and critic Ilija Trojanow (also transliterated as Iliya Troyanov) (born August 23 1965 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian - German Writer [4] [5]

The critic Bruce King writes of Hoskote's early work in his influential Modern Indian Poetry in English (revised edition: Oxford, 2001): "Hoskote has an historical sense, is influenced by the surreal, experiments with metrics and has a complex sense of the political. . . An art critic, he makes much use of landscapes, the sky and allusions to paintings. His main theme. . . is life as intricate, complicated, revolutionary movements in time. . . We live in a world of flux which requires violence for liberation, but history shows that violence itself turns into oppression and death. " Reviewing Hoskote's first book of poems, Zones of Assault, in 1991 for India Today, the poet Agha Shahid Ali wrote: "Hoskote wants to discover language, as one would a new chemical in a laboratory experiment. India Today is an Indian weekly Newsmagazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975. Agha Shahid Ali ( आगा शाहीद अली) ( 4 February 1949, New Delhi - 8 December 2001, Amherst Massachusetts This sense of linguistic play, usually missing from subcontinental poetry in English, is abundant in Hoskote’s work. " A decade later, reviewing Hoskote's third volume, The Sleepwalker's Archive, for The Hindu in 2001, the poet and critic Keki Daruwalla wrote: "It is the way he hangs on to a metaphor, and the subtlety with which he does it, that draws my admiration (not to mention envy). The Hindu is a single-edition English-language Indian newspaper . . Hoskote’s poems bear the 'watermark of fable': behind each cluster of images, a story; behind each story, a parable. I haven’t read a better poetry volume in years. "[6]

Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on Poetry International Web, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: "His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote’s metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous, combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion, turning each poem into a many-angled, multifaceted experience. " [7] [8] Although he was closely associated with the modernist poet Nissim Ezekiel, who was his mentor, Hoskote does not share Ezekiel's poetics. Nissim Ezekiel ( December 24, 1924 – January 9, 2004) was a poet playwright and art critic Instead, his aesthetic choices align him more closely with Dom Moraes and Adil Jussawalla. Aesthetics or esthetics ( also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values sometimes called Dominic Francis Moraes ( 19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) popularly known as Dom Moraes was a Goan writer poet and columnist

In 2004, the year in which Indian poetry in English lost three of its most important figures – Ezekiel, Moraes, and Arun Kolatkar – Hoskote wrote moving obituaries for these ‘masters of the guild’, essays in which he wove personal reminiscence with the editor’s historic mandate of context-making. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar ( Marathi: अरुण बालकृष्ण कोलटकर 1932-11-01 &ndash 2004-09-25) was one of the influential [9] [10] [11] [12] Hoskote has also written, often, about the place of poetry in contemporary culture, the dynamics of the encounter between reader and poetic text, and the role that reading circles and literary platforms can play in the process of literary socialisation. [13] [14]

In 2006, the prestigious literary imprint, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, launched its new poetry series, Edition Lyrik Kabinett, with a German translation of Hoskote's poems, Die Ankunft der Vögel, rendered by the poet Jürgen Brocan. The other two volumes in the series, which was launched at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, were by the renowned American poet Charles Simic and the noted German poet Christoph Meckel. Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse is the world's largest Trade fair for Books, based on the number of publishing companies represented Charles Simic (ˈtʃ​͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ​͡ born Dušan Simić, May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a Serbian Christoph Meckel (* 12 June 1935 in Berlin) is a German author and Graphic artist.

As a literary organiser, Hoskote has been associated with the PEN All-India Centre, the Indian branch of International PEN, since 1986, and is currently its General Secretary, as well as Editor of its journal, Penumbra. For the "Postsecondary Education Network International" see PEN-International International PEN, the worldwide association of He has also been associated with the Poetry Circle Bombay since 1986, and was its President from 1992 to 1997.

Hoskote was principal art critic for The Times of India, Bombay, from 1988 to 1999. The Times of India ( TOI) is a leading English-language Broadsheet Daily newspaper in India. Between 1993 and 1999, he was also a leader writer for The Times and wrote a weekly column of lively cultural commentary, 'Ripple Effects', for it. In his role as religion and philosophy editor for The Times, he began a popular column on spirituality, sociology of religion, and philosophical commentary, 'The Speaking Tree' (he named the column, which was launched in May 1996, after the benchmark 1971 study of Indian society and culture, The Speaking Tree, written by his friend, the scholar and artist Richard Lannoy) [15]. Hoskote was an art critic and cultural commentator, as well as a senior editor, with The Hindu, from 2000 to 2007, contributing to its periodical of thought and culture, Folio [16] as well as to its editorial and op-ed pages, and its prestigious Sunday Magazine.

In his role as an art critic, Hoskote has authored a critical biography as well as a major retrospective study of the painter Jehangir Sabavala, and also monographs on the artists Tyeb Mehta, Sudhir Patwardhan, Baiju Parthan and Iranna GR. Tyeb Mehta is an Indian artist from Mumbai. Born in 1925 in Kapadvanj a town in the Indian state of Gujarat, he holds the record for the highest Baiju Parthan, a painter, is known as a pioneer of Intermedia art in India. He has also written major essays on other leading Indian artists, including, among others, Gieve Patel, Bhupen Khakhar, Akbar Padamsee, Mehlli Gobhai, Vivan Sundaram, Laxman Shreshtha, Atul Dodiya, Surendran Nair, Jitish Kallat, the Raqs Media Collective, Shilpa Gupta and Sudarshan Shetty. Bhupen Khakhar (also spelled Bhupen Khakkar, born Mumbai 1934 - died Baroda 2003 was one of the leading artists in the Indian contemporary art scene Vivan Sundaram (born in 1943 Simla, India) is an Indian contemporary artist Atul Dodiya (born 1959 Ghatkopar, Mumbai, India) is a well known Indian artist Jitish Kallat was born in 1974 in Mumbai ( Bombay) India. He received his BFA in painting from the Sir J Raqs Media Collective is a group of three media practitioners - Jeebesh Bagchi (New Delhi 1965 Monica Narula (New Delhi 1969 and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (New Delhi 1968 - based in

As a cultural theorist, Hoskote has addressed the cultural and political dynamics of postcolonial societies that are going through a process of globalisation, emphasising the possibilities of a 'non-western contemporaneity'[17] and 'intercultural communication'[18]. Postcolonialism ( postcolonial theory, post-colonial theory) is an intellectual discourse that holds together a set of theories found among the texts and Globalization (or globalisation) in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones He has also returned often to the theme of the 'nomad position'[19] [20] and to the polarity between 'crisis and critique'. [21] In many of his writings and lectures, Hoskote examines the relationship between the aesthetic and the political, describing this as a tension between the politics of the expressive and the expressivity of the political. He has explored, in particular, the connections between popular visual art, mass mobilisations and the emergence of fluid and fluctuating identities within the evolving metropolitan cultures of the postcolonial world. [22] [23] Hoskote has also speculated, in various essays, on the nature of a 'futurative art' possessed of an intermedia orientation, and which combines critical resistance with expressive pleasure. Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable often confusing inter-disciplinary activities that occur [24] At the same time, Hoskote has reflected on the place of beauty and the sublime in contemporary cultural practice, often speaking of "experiences parallel to beauty". NOTICE TO WOULD-BE-ROMEOS*************** In a major essay on the subject, he writes that "the modern art-work is often elegiac in nature: it mourns the loss of beauty through scission and absence; it carries within its very structure a lament for the loss of beauty. "[25] [26]

In a series of essays, papers and articles published from the late 1990s onward, Hoskote has reflected on the theme of the asymmetry between a 'West' that enjoys economic, military and epistemological supremacy and an 'East' that is the subject of sanction, invasion and misrepresentation. Epistemology (from Greek επιστήμη - episteme, "knowledge" + λόγος, " Logos " or theory of knowledge In some of these writings, he dwells on the historic fate of the 'House of Islam' as viewed from the West and from India, in an epoch "dominated by the NATO cosmology"[27] while in others, he retrieves historic occasions of successful cultural confluence, when disparate belief systems and ethnicities have come together into a fruitful and sophisticated hybridity. [28] Hoskote has also attended to the phenomena of politicised religiosity and reinvented belief in the epoch of globalisation, as idioms of retrieval or revival, as expressions of alternative modernities or even counter-modernities. [29] [30] [31]

Hoskote is also a vocal and articulate defender of cultural freedoms against the monopolistic claims of the State, religious pressure groups and censors, whether official or self-appointed. He has been actively involved in organizing protest campaigns in defence of victims of cultural intolerance. [32] [33] [34]

Hoskote has been a Visiting Writer and Fellow of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa (1995) and was writer-in-residence at the Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003). The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River He was awarded the Sanskriti Award for Literature, 1996, and won First Prize in the British Council/Poetry Society All-India Poetry Competition, 1997. The British Council is a Public Body of the United Kingdom Government which specialises in educational and development opportunities India's National Academy of Letters honoured him with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award in 2004. The Sahitya Akademi (साहित्य अकादमी is an Indian organisation dedicated to the promotion of Literature in the Languages of The S. H. Raza Foundation conferred its 2006 Raza Award for Literature on Hoskote. SH Raza or Syed Haider Raza (born 1922 is an eminent Indian artist who has lived and worked in France since 1950 but maintains strong ties with

In his role as an independent curator, Hoskote has conceived and organised thirteen exhibitions of contemporary Indian and Asian art since 1994, including a mid-career retrospective of the artist Atul Dodiya for the Japan Foundation, Tokyo (2001) and a lifetime retrospective of Jehangir Sabavala for India's National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and New Delhi (2005). The was established in 1972 by an Act of the Japanese Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became The National Gallery of Modern Art ( NGMA) was established in 1954 by the Government of India with a gallery in New Delhi. Hoskote's exhibitions cover a range of curatorial interests, including sculptural departures from the abstract (as in the 1994 show, 'Hinged by Light'), site-specific public-art installations (as in the 2000 show, 'Making an Entrance'), phantasmagoria (as in the 2006 show, 'Strangeness'), and the curve of a distinctive Indo-Iberian regionality (as in the 2007 survey exhibition, 'Aparanta: The Confluence of Contemporary Art in Goa').

Hoskote is co-curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008) in South Korea, collaborating on this project with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim. The Gwangju Biennale, which started in September of 1995 in the city of Gwangju in the South Jeolla province of South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː Okwui Enwezor is an Nigerian-born American Educator, Poet, Writer, Art critic, and Curator specializing in Art history [35]

Hoskote holds an Associate Fellowship with Sarai CSDS, a new-media initiative of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, and is in the process of developing, jointly with Nancy Adajania, a new journal of critical inquiry in the visual arts. Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS Delhi. Nancy Adajania (born Bombay, 15 December 1971 is a cultural theorist Art critic and independent Curator based in India. [36]

Hoskote currently lives and works in Mumbai.

Bibliography

Poetry

REVIEW

Art Criticism

Cultural History

As Editor

As Translator

Exhibitions curated

External links

Poetry

Essays

Articles

References

  1. ^ A. Hindustan Times ( HT) is a leading newspaper in India, published since 1924 with roots in the independence movement J. Thomas, Poems that bear the watermark of fable (Deccan Herald) January 9, 2005. The Deccan Herald is the largest English-language daily Newspaper in the Indian state of Karnataka. Events 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
  2. ^ See Wikipedia entry on Indian Writing in English. Indian English Literature (IEL refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one
  3. ^ See 'another subcontinent' forum, for a close reading and discussion of Ranjit Hoskote's poetry and poetics
  4. ^ See Penguin Books India: Author Lounge
  5. ^ See, also, Rizio Raj's contextualisation of Hoskote's generation of poets
  6. ^ Keki Daruwalla's review of Hoskote's 'The Sleepwalker's Archive'
  7. ^ Arundhathi Subramaniam's introduction to Hoskote's work
  8. ^ See, also, 'Spy, Interpreter, Double Agent': interview with Ranjit Hoskote by Arundhathi Subramaniam
  9. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: Obituary essay for Nissim Ezekiel
  10. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: Obituary essay for Dom Moraes
  11. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: Front-page obituary for Dom Moraes
  12. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: Editorial Page obituary for Arun Kolatkar
  13. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: 'State of enrichment'
  14. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: 'Poet's nightmare'
  15. ^ See Richard Lannoy, The Speaking Tree
  16. ^ See Index of The Hindu: Folio
  17. ^ See Concept note for Heinrich Böll Stiftung international conference on 'Identities versus Globalisation' (Chiang Mai, 2004)
  18. ^ See Proceedings of Res Artis annual meeting (New Delhi, 1998)
  19. ^ See Reflection by Ranjit Hoskote on 'The Nomad Position'
  20. ^ See Essay by Ranjit Hoskote on the Raqs Media Collective
  21. ^ See Essay by Ranjit Hoskote in Sarai Reader 04/ 'Crisis/Media'
  22. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote's review of Christopher Pinney's Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India
  23. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote's essay, 'Performing a Life, Living a Performance', on Alex Fernandes: Tiatristes
  24. ^ See Essay by Ranjit Hoskote for the Jochen Gerz Foundation's Anthology of Art project (2001)
  25. ^ See Essay by Ranjit Hoskote: "Experiences Parallel to Beauty"
  26. ^ See, also, Review in The Hindu: "Battling with beauty"
  27. ^ See The View from a "Globalized" India: Essay by Ranjit Hoskote at www.counterpunch.org
  28. ^ See Broadcast by Ranjit Hoskote for BBC
  29. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote, 'Faith in transition'
  30. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote's review of Meera Nanda's Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodernism, Science and Hindu Nationalism
  31. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote's review of Meera Nanda's The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva
  32. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote: 'Enemies of cultural freedom'
  33. ^ See Ranjit Hoskote, 'Painting the art world red'
  34. ^ See Amit Varma: The India Uncut blog
  35. ^ See Gwangju Biennale website
  36. ^ See Nancy Adajania & Ranjit Hoskote: A New Journal for the Arts

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NAME Hoskote, Ranjit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary English language Indian poet, translator and art-critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay, Maharashtra, India
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Indian English Literature (IEL refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one Indian English Literature (IEL refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one Nissim Ezekiel ( December 24, 1924 – January 9, 2004) was a poet playwright and art critic Dominic Francis Moraes ( 19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) popularly known as Dom Moraes was a Goan writer poet and columnist For the "Postsecondary Education Network International" see PEN-International International PEN, the worldwide association of Nancy Adajania (born Bombay, 15 December 1971 is a cultural theorist Art critic and independent Curator based in India. The Gwangju Biennale, which started in September of 1995 in the city of Gwangju in the South Jeolla province of South Korea English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial Maharashtra ( Marathi: mahārāṣṭra, IPA) is a state located on the western coast of India. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country
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