There are over seven hundred printed Dogri folk tales, and this volume is the first attempt to present some selected tales in English translation.The language of about five million Dogras, Dogri has a rich oral literature and folk tales form a substantial part of if. There are over seven hundred Dogri folk tales which have been collected and printed so far. This volume is the first attempt to bring out the English translation of some of these folk tales.The tales ...
A selection of Contemporary Dogri Poetry is a volume which represents a wide variety of poems: right from the first published poem of Dinu Bhai Pant in 1944 to Ved Rahi’s which came out in 2003. The approach in this selection as the translator says is quite different. What is kept in view is a certain standard, poetic merit, imagery, intellectual element and susceptibility to rendition in simple English so that pieces do not look flat in English translation. ...