Mumbai, Maharashtra •
Feb 21, 2024
Words: worlds in a grain of sand
On International Mother Language Day, Indian language editors of PARIBhasha bring together a single story of loss and memory told in 14 different voices, each from a different locale
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Labani Jangi and Priyanka Borar and Jayant Parmar and Atharva Vankundre
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Labani Jangi
Labani Jangi is a self-taught painter from West Bengal's Nadia district. She is the very first winner of the T.M. Krishna-PARI prize in 2025 and was a PARI Fellow in 2020. A PhD scholar, Labani has been working on labour migrations at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
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Priyanka Borar
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Jayant Parmar
Jayant Parmar is a Sahitya Akademi Award winning Dalit poet from Gujarat, who writes in Urdu and Gujarati. He is also a painter and calligrapher. He has published sevel collections of his Urdu poems.
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PARIBhasha Team
PARIBhasha is our unique Indian languages programme that supports reporting in and translation of PARI stories in many Indian languages. Translation plays a pivotal role in the journey of every single story in PARI. Our team of editors, translators and volunteers represent the diverse linguistic and cultural landscape of the country and also ensure that the stories return and belong to the people from whom they come.
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Atharva Vankundre
Atharva Vankundre is a storyteller and illustrator from Mumbai. He has been an intern with PARI from July to August 2023.
