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Pervin Saket

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Occupation
  
Poet, Novelist

Books
  
Urmila

Website
  
www.pervinsaket.in


Pervin Saket (born 1984) is an Indian poet, novelist, short-story writer and a children's author.

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Early Life and Education

Pervin Saket (then Chhapkhanawala) was born into a Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), where she completed her schooling from Queen Mary School (ICSE), in 2000. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from St. Xavier's College,Mumbai affiliated to Mumbai University, in 2005, and her Master of Arts degree in English Literature from S.N.D.T. University, in 2007. In 2009, she was selected for the first Science Fiction and Creative Writing residential workshop at IIT-Kanpur, which was facilitated by science fiction writers Anil Menon and Vandana Singh, and Literature Professor Suchitra Mathur. The workshop included a number of luminaries like Dr. Jayant Narlikar as guest speakers, and her writing produced there was published in Breaking the Bow, edited by Anil Menon and Vandana Singh, published by Zubaan books (2012).

Pervin also holds a Shodan (Black Belt) in Karate from the International Karatedo Gojukai Association (IKGA) and she represented India, winning an award of merit, at the 2002 IKGA tournament in Japan and Thailand.

Career

Pervin Saket was employed as an editor with BARE Associates International, a market research company, post which she taught English Literature and Business Communication at St. Andrew's College, Mumbai. In 2008, she joined Ratna Sagar P. Ltd, where she currently works as a consultant editor and a resource person. Pervin is a certified Creative Writing Trainer from the British Council and she also conducts workshops for the British Council on reading, writing fiction and writing poetry. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous Indian and international anthologies and she was shortlisted for the Random House India Writers’ Bloc Award, 2013.

Her debut novel ‘Urmila’ is inspired by the rejection of Lakshmana’s wife in the Ramayana, and explores her loneliness and eventual redemption, through a reimagined narrative set in contemporary Mumbai. The novel explores modern-day ideas of attachment and duty, and questions whether devotion to a brother can justify the desertion of a wife.

Following Tagore’s plea to ‘wipe the tears of Urmila’ but diverting from the tradition established by Maithili Sharan Gupt in his Hindi poem ‘Saket’, ‘Urmila’ works as a commentary on 21st century relationships through the voice of an ignored woman from a timeless epic.

Publications

Poetry Collections

  • ‘A Tinge of Turmeric’ – Writers Workshop, 2008

    • Poems

  • ‘The Enemy’ – in Platform Magazine, 2009
  • ‘Holding Back’ and ‘No, I Don’t Think of You’ – in Kritya, 2010
  • ‘Neighbours’ – in The Binnacle, University of Maine, 2010
  • ‘Hands’ – in The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing (ed. Arun Kale), 2014
  • ‘The Left of the Horizon’ and ‘Hands’ in Veils, Halos and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression And Empowerment of Women (ed. Charles Fishman and Smita Sahay), 2016

    • Short Fiction

  • ‘What’s in a Name?’ – in Journeys, Sampad South Asian Arts, 2010
  • ‘She Screamed’ – in Page Forty Seven, 2008
  • ‘The Test of Fire’ – in Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (ed. Anil Menon and Vandana Singh), Zubaan Books, 2012
  • ‘Happy Birthday to Me’ – in The Asian Writer Collection, Dalia Publishing, 2010
  • ‘Fallen’ – in Earthen Lamp Journal, 2014
  • ‘Green or Brown’ – in Khabar Magazine, 2010
  • ‘Urmila’ – in Kiski Kahani, 2011
  • ‘The Test of Fire’ – Aliens: Recent Encounters (ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane), Prime Books USA, 2013
  • ‘Of Goddesses and Girls’ and ‘The Turban and the Shawl’ – Ripples Anthology, 2013
  • ‘Twelve Months’ – Love Across Borders, An Anthology by Indian and Pakistani Writers, 2015

    • Children’s Fiction

  • ‘Adventures @ Miscellaneous Shelf Four’ – 2010
  • ‘Viru and the Water Balloons’ – Hoot Magazine, 2011

    • Non Fiction

  • ‘Ramayana: The Old New Canvas’ – in Kiski Kahani, 2011
  • Notes on H.G. Wells ‘The Invisible Man’, 2014

    • Novels

  • ‘Urmila’ – Jaico Publishers, 2016

    • References

    Pervin Saket Wikipedia
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