poetry session by Mamta sagar on 27th september'09

              all attentive and enjoying
 
          mamta reciting
              here they arrived 
        all set for the go

 "It just happened.this poetry session was first of its kind wherein we were able to directly interact with the peot who didn't mind shareing her expertise in the field of poetry." monolith team

BIOGRAPHY

Mamta Sagar was born in 1966 in Bangalore. India. She is a contemporary Kannada poet and playwright living in Bangalore, in Karnataka, India. Mamta has three collections of poems, “Hiige Haaleya Maile Haadu” (Like this the song) 2007 (to be published shortly), “Kaada Navilina Hejje” (Footprints of The Wild Peacock) 1992 and “Nadiya Neerina Teva” (Dampness of the River) 1999 and four plays to her credit.[citation needed] “The Swing of Desire”, English translation of her Kannada play ‘Mayye Bhara Manave Bhara’, is included in the anthology, “Staging Resistance: Plays by Women in Translation”, Published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2004. “MahiLa Vishaya” (Women Subjects), A collection of Essays in Kannada and English on Gender, Language, Literature and Culture 2007 is her recent book.

As a member of delegation of writers from India, Mamta Sagar visited Havana, Cuba to participate in the 5th International Congress on Culture and Development 10 -17 June 2007. She represented India at the 9th Poetry Africa Festival held during October 2005 at Durban, South Africa. She has conducted poetry workshops for two schools in Durban and a theatre workshop for young girls from economically backward communities in Hyderabad. “Purdah”, a play script in Urdu, evolved during this workshop was staged at ‘AKKA’ National Theatre Festival for Women, Rangayana, Mysore, 2001.[1]

‘Agenda’, Empowering Women for Gender Equality, journal No. 69, September 2006 South Africa. Routes-‘Moving Worlds’ A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Vol 2, Issue One, 2002, University of Leeds-UK. South Asian Studies News Letter-IOWA, Spring 2002. ‘TOMAS’, The Literary Journal, published by Centre for Creative Writing and Studies, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines Issue 10, March 2006. SAMYUKTA- A Journal of Women Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. URDHVA MULA: An Inter-disciplinary Journal focusing on Women and Related Issues, Mumbai. British Council’s Website on Women Writing, ‘Kerala Kavitha 2000’ edited by Dr. K. Ayyappa Panikkar, January 2000, Calicut. INDIAN LITERATURE, journal published by the Academy of Letters, New Delhi. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India, Mumbai etc. carries her articles, poems in translations and her works of translation from Kannada literature and culture.[citation needed] As part of the Fifth Anniversary of the World Poetry Gala Celebrations, her poems in Kannada original along with translations in English were displayed at the Vancouver Public Library, (Central branch) 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, February 2006. Her poems in English translation is published in the anthology, “In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - Volume 7” edited by Marlow Peerse Weaver and published by MW Enterprises, USA. Her poems in Kannada along with their translation in English is included in an anthology of Women of Color Poets edited by Nagueyalti Warren and published by The Africa World Press and were on display at the World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya 20-25, Jan 2007.[citation needed]

Mamta has conducted theatre and poetry workshops culminating with readings and productions for women, children and people from marginalised communities. Her poems are translated into Indian languages such as Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu and English apart from Spanish and French and have seen publication in various journals and poetry anthologies in those respective languages.[citation needed]

Mamta Sagar received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Hyderabad.Her doctoral work is in Comparative Literature from University of Hyderabad and the thesis is titled as “Gender, Patriarchy and Resistance: Contemporary Women’s Poetry in Kannada and Hindi (1980-2000)”. With a specialization in Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Kannada Literature and Cultural Discourse, she has presented papers in important national and international seminars and conferences. With a specialization in Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Kannada Literature and Cultural Discourse, Mamta Sagar teaches at the Centre for Kannada Studies, Jnana Bharathi Campus, Bangalore University and lives in Bangalore, India.