Lamakaan presents Activist in Residence TREPAN SINGH CHAUHAN

Title: READING FROM YAMUNA and HEY BYARI

In 2005 TSC set out to write a trilogy that examines the experiences of ordinary people struggling for statehood. Written from the perspective of Yamuna, a young woman who decides to join the struggle, Yamuna and He Byari bring to life the impossibility of struggle and yet the limitless joys that sustain it. TSC will read excerpts from both novels, speak of the difficulties of writing struggle as fiction and briefly of the last of the trilogy -- Bithabgarasmaan -- that he is currently writing.

About TREPAN SINGH CHAUHAN

TSC is a militant political activist and renowned novelist-poet who has for over two decades now been at the center of grassroots people's movements and a visionary voice on the future of the mountains and it's people. Trepan' started his political life as a young 14-year-old militant with the Chipki movement and by the middle 1990s he and other youth had articulated a new movement - Chetna Andolan - that not only became the 'peoples rights' voice of the Statehood movement but has since its formation articulated a vision of Uttarakhand as an experiment in Social Justice.

Apart from countless popular essays and pamphlets, TSCs short stories, poems, and novels have established him as one of the most important emergent voices in Hindi literature. His five novels -- Sarjan Navyug ka, Yumuna, Bhaag ki phans, He Byari and Darwaze ke Peeche have won him much critical acclaim.

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