 International literary festival in Oslo, Norway 18‒20 september 2008 Papers [ main | program | seminar | contributors | papers | reports ] |
Dancing on the StreetsWorld Literature Festival Oslo, September 2008 by Amitabh Mitra (South Africa) How do I start describing the World Literary Festival at Oslo in September this year? Shall we talk about trams first? Yes, Trams, the same trams that rumbles down on busy thoroughfares of Kolkata. Trams are reminiscent of the British Raj in India and therefore boarding a tram from the Oslo dockyard with its familiar gongs at intervals was an experience lingering that I think of putting down hastily on the paper. Trams and Poets have a common link. The best of love poetry started off inevitably in trams as I see couples clinging on to each other. Love poetry sat on such a tram one day and it built itself up as streets and ancient buildings ran around it, people dropped by and parted till the conductor announced brusquely, ‘This is the last Stop’ Les mer |
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