आयोजन समिति
विभूति नारायण राय
वीरेन्द्र यादव
अखिलेश
अवधेश मिश्र (संयोजक)
लगभग एक शताब्दी के सफर मे हिन्दी कथा साहित्य कई मंजिलों और पडावों से होकर गुजरा है . स्वाधीनता -पूर्व के वर्षों में जहाँ आजादी की चेतना एवँ सामाजिक विसंगतियों ने इसका स्वरूप निर्मित किया वहाँ स्वातंत्रोत्तर काल में इसने प्रतिबद्ध जीवन दृष्टि और आधुनिकता -बोध की टकराहटों से होकर अपनी राह बनाई . इस समूचे दौर में कथा साहित्य विशेषकर हिन्दी कहानी कई आन्दोलनों से होकर गुजरा है . फतवोँ और नारोँ के शोर से बचते बचाते आज कहानी जिस मुकाम पर है, वह उम्मीदों भरा है . हिन्दी उपन्यास ने भी इस दौर में अपनी हस्तक्षेपकारी उपस्थिति दर्ज करायी है . लेकिन यह भी सच है कि आज भारतीय समाज विकास और विनाश, परिवर्तन और ठहराव, वैश्वीकरण और स्थानिकता की जिस द्वन्द से गुजर रहा है, वह कथा साहित्य के लिये चुनौतियों से भरा है . भारत-विभाजन के बाद अक्टूबर चौरासी , 6 दिसम्बर 1992 एवँ गुजरात 2002 की घट्नाओं से भारतीय समाज आंतरिक विभाजनों से होकर गुजर रहा है . बढती सामाजिक- आर्थिक विषमताओँ एवँ पारंपरिक कुलीनतावाद ने भी विभाजन की इस प्रक्रिया को और भी भेदकारी बनाया है .जहाँ मध्यवर्ग के लिये वैश्वीकरण और मुक्त अर्थ व्यवस्था द्वारा नए अवसरोँ का दावा किया जा रहा है, वही हाशिये का समाज वंचित और निरुपाय होने के लिये अभिशप्त है .विकास के वैकल्पिक माडल एवँ संगठित प्रतिरोध के अभाव मेँ हताशा, विलगाव एवं बेबाकी से उसका दुविधाग्रस्त होना स्वाभाविक ही है .
हमारा कथा साहित्य भारतीय समाज के तेजी से बदलते इस परिदृश्य , सामाजिक संकट एवं दु:स्वप्नों की रचनात्मक अभिव्यक्ति किस तरह कर रहा है ? कहीं हम दूर बैठे का दुख तो नहीं कर रहें जो भारतीय समाज के दु:स्वप्नों , पीडा एवं हताशा को महज उपभोग सामग्री के रूप में इस्तेमाल कर रहा है ? क्या है हमारा रवैय्या उस लेखन के प्रति जो हाशिये के समाज के बीच से हो रहा है ? दलित ,स्त्री और अल्पसंख्यक हमारे सरोकारों में कितना शामिल है ? इन सवालों के बरक्स हिन्दी कथा-आलोचना की क्या भूमिका है ? क्या आलोचना को आस्वादपरकता एवं कुलीनतावाद से मुक्त होने की जरूरत नहीं है ? यदि उपन्यास- कहानी महज साहित्यिक संरचना न होकर सामाजिक सम्र्चना भी है तो क्या आलोचना के नये विकल्प जरूरी नहीं ?
यदि ये प्रश्न आपको कुच विचलित करतें हैं और विचारणीय लगतें हैं तो आइये हम मिल बैठकर इस पर सामूहिक चर्चा करें . हमारी यह चर्चा निम्न तीन शीर्षकों में विभाजित है:
(1) हिन्दी कथा-भूमि और आज का समय
(2) कथा साहित्य और आलोचना का ह्स्तक्षेप
(3) हाशिये के लोग और हिन्दी कथा साहित्य
इस समारोह का आयोजन 11-12 अक्तूबर को श्री रामानन्द सरस्वती पुस्तकालय के तत्वावधान में किया जायेगा. श्री रामानन्द सरस्वती पुस्तकालय की स्थापना, आजमगढ सॆ ग़ॉरखपुर जाने वाले मार्ग पर स्थित ग्राम जोकहरा मेँ सन 1993 मेँ पढने की सँस्कृति विकसित करने के लिए की गयी थी ! पिछले डॅढ दशकोँ मेँ यह संस्था देश के एक मह्त्वपूर्ण साँस्कृतिक केन्द्र के रुप मेँ मान्यता प्राप्त कर चुकी हॆ ! दस ह्जार से अधिक पुस्तकों एवँ डेढ सौ से अधिक लघु पत्रिकाऑ के अँको क़ॆ संग्रह वाला यह पुस्तकालय देश के सबसे पिछडे इलाकों में से एक में स्थित हॆ ! अपनी सक्रिय उपस्थिति से इसने न सिर्फ आसपास के इलाके में सामान्य लोगों में पुस्तक पढने की सँस्कृति विकसित की हॆ बल्कि विशेष रुप से समाज के हाशिये पर उपस्थिति दर्ज कराने वाले तबकों. दलितों ,महिलाओं और भूमिहीन परिवार के बच्चों की पुस्तकों तक पहुँच सम्भव बनाई हॆ!
कथा साहित्य पर केन्द्रित इस अखिल भारतीय आयोजन में सक्रिय भागीदारी के लिये आप सादर आमंत्रित हैं . आयोजन समिति आपके समुचित आतिथ्य एवं मार्ग-व्यय की व्यवस्था करेगी .कृपया आयोजन में भागीदारी की सहमति देकर हमें आश्वस्त करें .
आपके सहयोग का आकांक्षी,
(संयोजक)
कृते संयोजन समिति
sri ramanand saraswati pustkalaya
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Women dare to ask question:
The mundane and routine life of Prabhawati had always been on the receiving end. Poverty, ill treatment of in laws and regular beating by a drunkard husband Bhagwat were all she could remember till she met Kusum and Pushpa, two activists on gender issues. SRSP, with support of OXFAM, has initiated a campaign against gender violence in fifteen surrounding villages. Prabhawati's village Sahnupur is one among these. She learnt the art of protest during interaction with Kusum and Pushpa and that was the beginning of the end of accepting cruelty without asking questions. "How dare you ask question" was the reaction of Bhagwat, with a sense of disbelief on his face, one day when he slapped her and a defiant Prabhawati asked uncomfortable questions. Since then Prabhawati never looked back. She giggles while narrating, before women participants in a discourse on gender, how she reacts to the violent behaviour of her husband and how much he fears raising his hands on her because he knows that she will pay him back in the same coins. Prabhawati is one of many women of different age groups who regularly attend various capacity building programmes and discussions organised by SRSP. These exposures have taught them to ask questions and not to accept violence against them in different forms and at various levels.
Letters from a Goa prisoner to writers: Sumant Bhattacharya in Indian Express of 18 th January 1998
NEW DELHI, January 17: From his tiny cell in Goa's Central Jail, Sudhir Sharma, Inmate No 797, has been fighting a long and lonely battle: he wants to read. The Constitution and the Supreme Court say he has the right to do so, his prison authorities say no.Sharma, a former addict, was arrested in 1993 and sentenced to a 10-year jail term under the Narcotics Act. While in prison, one day, a fellow inmate showed him a copy of Pahal, a monthly Hindi literary magazine. It was this that, Sharma says, gave him a reason to live.
He wrote to Pahal editor, noted Hindi writer Gyanranjan, who sent him his books. They reached the jail but authorities said he couldn't read them. The books were sent back and Sharma was moved to a sub-jail, in Vasco, where, he says, the conditions are worse.
Still, he keeps writing letters, to Gyanranjan, Hindi novelist and DIG of Border Security Force, Vibhuti Narain Rai; authors Nirmal Varma, S R Yatri and Asghar Wajahat. These letters aren't sent through ``official channels'', he smuggles them out, sometimes through an inmate on his way to the hospital, a friendly warden or an inmate's relative. In his latest letter to Rai on December 10, 1997, Sharma says he's perhaps paying for raising his voice.
The story of his life, as told through his letters: Once a student of Delhi University, Sharma left home for Mumbai. He began working for the underworld don Karim Lala's nephew Samad Khan, fell in love with a ``penfriend'' from Jodhpur. Things changed when Samad Khan was killed and his girlfriend ditched him. Sharma became an addict and began to peddle drugs until he landed in jail.
He clocked his days in despair until he read Pahal. ``Pahal ke ank ne meri zindagi mein pranvayu ka sanchar kiya,'' he writes in a letter to Rai. (Just one issue of Pahal gave me a fresh lease of life). He goes on to thank Gyanda (Gyanranjan) for accepting a prisoner as a reader. ``Thank you for agreeing to share your books with a criminal. I know I have done something wrong but I am conscious. Don't I have the right,'' he asks, ``to know what's going on, to be sensitive?''
Books and magazines came pouring in which jail authorities confiscated. He also wrote to Kiran Bedi. In a letter, he says he believes that his persecution by the jailer was largely due to his attempt to spill the beans in the letter to Bedi.
The IG (Prison), Goa, and the superintendent of the Central Jail in Aguada, quoted the jail manual to justify their action. In a letter to Rai dated July 8, 1996, the superintendent says:
"In view of Rule 17 of the Goa Daman and Diu Prisons (Facilities to the prisoners) Rules 1968, the parcel which was sent by you was refused by this jail."
According to this rule, prisoners' mail, both incoming and outgoing, "shall be carefully censored." And a prisoner may be asked to give "a list of persons with whom he is likely to correspond during his period of imprisonment. As far as practicable, this list shall be scrutinised."
Jail authorities claim that since these authors' names don't figure in this list, he cannot receive anything from them.
This despite a 1979 ruling by a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices V R Krishna Iyer, R S Pathak and O Chinnappa Reddy. The judges had said: "No prisoner can be personally subjected to deprivations not necessitated by the fact of incarceration and the sentence of the court. All other freedoms belong to him, to read and write... to creative comforts... to movement within the prison campus subject to the requirements of discipline and security, to the minimal joy of self-expression, to acquire skills... all other fundamental rights tailored to the limitations of imprisonment."Speaking to The Indian Express, G H Kenaudekar, additional Deputy Collector and Deputy IG (Prison), Goa north, says: "As per rules, books will not be given to prisoners but will be kept with jail authorities." When told of the Supreme Court's ruling, he says that probably the jail administration is not aware of the decision.
Ironically, the books sent to Sharma by Kiran Bedi, who was given the Magsaysay award for reforms in Tihar jail, were also returned. Says Bedi: "The Goa jail administration has overlooked the verdict and directions of the Supreme Court. It should be brought to book for this." Until that happens, Inmate No 797 will keep waiting -- and writing.
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