BOOK LAUNCH & FILM 'Kaljayi Kambakht' by Amit Dutta followed by screening of 'Kramasha' at Gallery at 1AQ, Qutab Minar Roundabout, Mehrauli Road > 6:30pm on 17th September 2016

Book Launch Invite 'Kaljayi Kambakht' by Amit Dutta 

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 17/09/2016 18:30 17/09/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata BOOK LAUNCH & FILM 'Kaljayi Kambakht' by Amit Dutta followed by screening of 'Kramasha' Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/book-launch-film-kaljayi-kambakht-by.html 1AQ, Qutab Minar Roundabout, Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 030 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : 1AQ, Qutab Minar Roundabout, Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 030
Venue Info : 1aq.in | Events | Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)'

Event Description : Join us as we celebrate Amit Dutta’s literary journey at the launch of his ​first ​novel, कालजयी कमबख्त (Kaljayi Kambakht)​. We will also screen his film, Kramasha based on an excerpt from​ the book,​ and follow it up with a conversation with Amit Dutta.​

Sham is a precocious schoolboy who dreams about making sense of the world he inhabits. Shaman, his friend and alter-ego prods him along. They walk together exploring the gullies and outskirts of their suburban hill village. They passionately glean whatever information is available to them through books or people. They make patterns out of this information and scheme to gain control over their reality. The villagers become characters in their scheme and start revealing the cracks in their reality. As fragments of science, philosophy, fairy-tales, folk-legends and history start seeping into their everyday existence, Sham and Shan find themselves deep in an unmanageable world of their own fantasies. 

Praise for the book:​

​"Amit Dutta’s “Kaljayi Kambakht” is a book like none other in Hindi literature. A bildungsroman of sorts, it plunges you into the strange and unsettling world of its youthful protagonist and holds you there until you cannot breathe, a world of magic and danger, by turns prosaic and poetic, mythic and oneiric, that unfolds like a fevered dream as one startling image follows another with the logic and inexorability of dreams." 

-Rahul Soni
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‘कालजयी कमबख्त’ एक सिने-उपन्यास है। यह सुनने व पढ़ने के लिए ही नहीं बल्कि देखने के लिए भी है।अमित का उपन्यास नये ढंग से लिखने का रास्ता खोल रहा है। सिर्फ अपने लिखने के ढंग में ही नहीं, भाषा के विशेष इस्तेमाल में भी। इस उपन्यास को ठहर कर पढ़ना होगा यानि देखना होगा जिससे हम अपने अन्तस के गुम प्रश्नों को खोजकर सामने लाकर उनका सामना कर सकें। अौर यह करते समय आनन्द में डूबे रह सकें 

  - उदयन वाजपेयी
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किताब पढ़ते-पढ़ते ऐसा लगता है कि लेखक ने कहीं से एक दिव्य विमान मंगवाया है अौर हम सबको उसमें बैठकर उड़ने का न्यौता दिया है। एक अजब अनुभव है: हम सब उड़ रहे हैं अौर नीचे ज़मीन पर खड़ा लेखक कुछ तब्सिर दिए जा रहा है कि यह देखो उधर पलट कर देखो! कभी-कभी आवाज बदलती है, दिशा बदलती है पर विमान उड़ता रहता है निरन्तर!”

- Prof. B.N. Goswamy
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