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Devi Prasad Mishra
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EDITING IT I have to edit a few scenes of my life: I talk to my film editor. Delete a few shots and frames, I suggest. I will, he assures. I mull over it: It is not easy to rewind it and then watch it. The life. (Tr d.p.m.) THE FASCISTS I said, You are a fascist. He said he is human. I said, You are a fascist. He said he won the election I said, You are a fascist. He said he holds the Aadhaar Card. I said, You are a fascist. He said he is a vegetarian. I said, You are a fascist. He said the issue is development. I said, You are a fascist. He said, We did not kill Gandhi. Only someone with us fired at him. A fascist you are, I said He said, Whatver, there’s now only us. (Tr. Rajesh Sharma) |
Devi Prasad Mishra has been writing experimental, stylistically diverse and polyphonic poems and publishing them in prestigious little literary Hindi magazines never bothering to bring them out in collections except when he published his first and only collection of poems Prarthana Kay Shilp Mein Nahin(Not In The Style Of Prayer) in 1989. He has written and published short stories in literary journals while his very short stories known as Anya Kahaniyan- Other Stories- have been admired for their originality denoting a paradigm shift. They will soon be published simultaneously in English and Marathi along with original Hindi. He just has completed his novel. His documentary was adjudged the best film on social issues fetching him the National Award in 2009 which he returned as mark of protest against the divisive policies of the government of the day. He won 3 PSBT fellowships to make 3 documentaries. His short film Satat was screened in Cannes Short Film Corner. He has completed a 56- minute film All This Because on a poetess who feeling forlorn and lonely in men’s world committed suicide. Devi has been given Bharat Bhushan Samman, Sanskriti Samman, Sharad Billoray Samman for poetry. Illutrated Weekly Of India, now discontinued, chose him as one of 13 most creative people of India.
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