Kamal Kumar Tanti Explained

Birth Name:Kamal Kumar Tanti
Birth Date:1982
Nationality:Indian
Education:PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Occupation:Assistant Professor, Poet, writer
Awards:
  • Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (2012)
  • Munin Barkotoki Literary Award (2008)

Kamal Kumar Tanti (born 1982) is an Assamese poet from Assam, India.

Works

Tanti belongs to the Tea-garden labour Community of Assam.[1] [2] [3] His first collection of poetry, Marangburu Amar Pita[4] (Our Father Marangburu), won Yuva Puraskar for 2012, that is awarded to 24 young writers below 35 years of age.[5] [6] and the Munin Barkataky Literary Award for 2008.[7] His Assamese poems have been included in various anthologies of Assamese poetry and featured in various journals in Assamese. He writes fiction occasionally and few of his short-stories have been included in several anthologies of Assamese fiction.

Tanti’s first collection of prose in Assamese, Nimnaborgo Somaaj Oitijya (Subaltern Society's Legacy), is composed of critical essays on Subaltern historiography and post-colonial theory,[8] with specific reference to colonial history and cultures of Assam. This book was selected as one of the "Ten Best Books" among all the Assamese books that has been published during the year 2007-08, by Grantha-Bandhab (Friends of Books), an organization in Assam.

Tanti’s translated poems(Assamese to English) have appeared in many journals, including Indian Literature,[9] The Little Magazine, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, Pyrta, Exchanges Literary Journal,[10] Cerebration,[11] NELit Review, Kritya, Visual Verse, Brown Critique, Steer Queer, etc. His poems also included in several anthologies of English poems, including 40 Under 40,[12] Shout It Out! Anthology, The World I Write In, etc.

Poetry

Marangburu Amar Pita (Our Father Marangburu). 2007.

Uttar-Ouponibeshik Kabita (Post-colonial Poems) Papyrus, Guwahati. 2018.[13]

Essay collections

Nimnaborgo Somaaj Oitijya (Subaltern Society's Legacy). 2007.

Uttar-Ouponibeshik Somaluchona (Post-colonial Criticism).

Notes and References

  1. News: Tellis . Ashley . 2010-07-31 . In sync with subaltern traditions . en-IN . The Hindu . 2022-03-19 . 0971-751X.
  2. Web site: Saikia . Arunabh . Interview: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the 'cash-transfer state' . 2022-03-19 . . 27 March 2021 . en-US.
  3. Web site: Saikia . Arunabh . Assam's large tea worker community has always lacked a political voice. Could this be changing? . 2022-03-19 . . 26 March 2021 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Shekhar . Hansda Sowvendra . Kamal Kumar Tanti's poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land . 2022-03-19 . . 23 March 2019 . en-US.
  5. Web site: :: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards . Sahitya-akademi.gov.in . 2015-06-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160805114428/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/yuva_samman_suchi.jsp . 5 August 2016 . dead .
  6. Web site: Kamal Tanti wins Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2012 . Assamtimes.org . 2012-12-24 . 2015-06-25.
  7. Web site: Poet invited . 2022-03-19 . Telegraph India.
  8. Book: Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Communities : Practices and Insights from the Asia-Pacific . 2018 . Bert Jenkins, D. B. Subedi, Kathy Jenkins . 978-981-10-6800-3 . Singapore . 1009180487.
  9. Web site: Vol. 59, No. 5 (289), September/October 2015 of Indian Literature on JSTOR . 2022-03-19 . www.jstor.org . en.
  10. Web site: Seven Poems by Kamal Kumar Tanti . 2022-03-19 . Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation . en-US.
  11. Web site: POSTCOLONIAL POEM: KAMAL KUMAR TANTI . 2022-03-19 . Cerebration.
  12. Book: 40 under 40 : an anthology of post-globalisation poetry . 2016 . Nabina Das, Semeen Ali, Aditi Rao, Aditya Mani Jha, Akhil Katyal, Amlanjyoti Goswami . 978-93-82749-44-8 . Mumbai . 1231563461.
  13. Web site: Chandramohan . S . 2019-05-01 . Annexing The landscape: Scrutinizing Kamal Kumar Tanti . 2022-03-19 . KochiPost . en-US.

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