Who we are

EDITORS–

 

Rati Saxena – Poet/ Translator/ Editor (kritya) / Director Poetry festivals –kritya and Vedic scholar. She has 16 collections of poetry in he cradit( Hindi and English. Her work has been translated in to Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada , English and international languages like- Italian, Estonian, and Serbian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Turkey and English translated by other poets. Her poems have been translated in many mor international languages like Chinese, Albanian, Uzbek, Indonesian , German etc. She has written five travelogues in Hindi and two Memoir in English and Hindi. One a criticism on the work of famous Malayalam Poet Balamaniyamma’s work. Her study on the Atharvaveda has been published as “The Seeds of the Mind- a fresh approach to the study of Atharvaveda” under the fellowship of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. She has translated about 15 Malayalam works, both prose and poetry, into Hindi and two poetry books of Norwegian poets , one each from Welsh, Vietnamese and serbarian languages. Her recent important work about Poetry therapy- book in poetry therapy- A fist which opens – a poetry therapy from distant past to present future and Tao in intensive care. She has a number of articles published regarding Indology in a number of journals. She has been invited for poetry reading in more than 40 prestigious poetry festivals around the world, among some are very popular e.g., The Struga Poetry Evening (Macedonia)( 2010) the prestigious poetry festival in Medellin -Colombia (2011 and 2014),, 10th Edition of “ Ritratti di Poesia” Feb 2016 and China’s Moon Festival and Shanghai book fair. She is the only Indian participant in some imp poetry festivals like Iran’s Fajr Poetry Festival, Iran (2014) , International Istanbul Poetry Festival (IIPF) Turkey (2014), 4th international Eskisehir Poetry Festival Turkey (2014). And a Special poetry reading in A Caruna , Spain ( 2015), Poetry reading at Foundation Vicente Risco, at Allariz ( Spain). She has also been invited to some American Universities like Mary Mount University in Los Angeles and University of Seattle ( USA) to talk on Vedic poetry and recite her own poetry. Her poem was poem been chosen in popular book of china “110 modern poems of the world”) 2015, ” Her poem was also part of space mission by Jaxa, Japan, along with 24 other poems. In 2002 . She was also artist in Former Artist-in-residence at Ebenboeckhaus Munichand Artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta and China_ a 600 hundred years old village

Her translated books in other languages are -‘Ottos barre A Una Finestra’ (Italian), by Federico Federici, edizioni di cantarena, 2008, Genova.,‘Rogha Danta’, (Irish), Translated by Gabriel Rosenstock. hoianpihus Kardemonikupraid (Estonian) -Translated by Margus Lattic, Mathura2015 ,Mo Duoc Song Vung Dat Khac (Vietnamese) translated by Pham Van Binh Dich 2015,Dos poetas en una -“Selected poems” (Rati Saxena/Kenia Martínez), 2017,Colection: “Two poets on” (Dos poetas en una), Publishing house: “Heart of mango” (Corazón de mango),Editor: Beatriz Vanegas Athias-2016( Spanish ),РАМ ЗА СЛИКЕ–( 2017) Published by Poetry festival,Smederevoۥs poet autumn , Translated by Dragan Dragojlovic, Rati Saxena, Degisiyor Zaman- Turkish Translation by Baris Behramoglu.2021,Rati Saxena’s poems, – in Uzbekistani by Azam Abidov– Under publication

Her awards include a fellowship from the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (2004-5), the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation (2001), the State Bank of Travancore Award for Poetry (2001), Naji Naaman’s Literary Prizes (International) for a complete work (2016), the DJS Translation Award for Chinese poetry (2018; DJS is the acronym in Chinese of Emily Dickinson’s name) and special award in the first Crete International Poetry Festival for her poetry, 2019, the Rajasthan Patrika prize for best poem (2020),Poet of Year Award of 5th Boao International Poetry Award, Grand silver medal LIFFT –Euresia 2023, RAJASTHAN Sahitya Akedemi’s highest award (Academy of letters) – Meera Puraskar 2023. Kerala Sahitiya Akedemi’s –samagra sahitya Purskar – 2023.

 

She is founder and editor of the first bilingual web journal kritya, which started in 2005, and founder and festival director of kritya poetry festival which is active from 2005 onwards.

 

She is one of the Founder member and Asian Coordinator Of the World Poetry Movement. Member of the journal’s editorial board-Multilingual Journal of Literature and Opto-Art “WürZarT,”and Member of scientific board Canzoniere, an international book-cd series devoted to poetry with music

 

 

 

 

Rashi Rasheed is a trained engineer who joined Kritya in 2017.
Although a voracious reader she was introduced into poetry only recently. She has taken a liking towards it ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanju Paul

Sanju Paul is her pen name, original being Sanjeev Kumari Paul. She is a veterinarian by profession and a poet and an artist by passion. She belongs to Himachal Pradesh (India) and has been involved in multiple projects of literary, artistic as well as scientific temperaments ranging from very local to global ones. She has also developed an artistic technique of carved and washed paintings using discard PVC sheets as canvas and tooth pick paintings on canvas. Pen sketching is another art form she uses to express herself. In addition, she also has a short film named “Catharsis” and interview film “The Petrichor” to her credit. Presently she is involved with her art studio “Sanjupaul’s Art Residence” along with her routine life.