Kamla K. Kapur

Kamla K. Kapur (janam 27 July 1948) ek Bharatiya-Amreeki naatakkaar, kavyitri, aur lekhika hai. Uu Hindu devta, Sikh Guru, aur Sufi rahasyawadi Rumi ke aaspaas ke kahaani, kinvdanti, aur mithak ke rachnaatmak-punarkathan ke liye, saath hi kai sameekshakon dwara prashansit Angreji naatak ke liye jaani jaati hai je America aur Bharat mein prastut kiye gaye hain.

Niji Jeevan aur Shiksha

Kapur ke janam aur parwarish Bharat mein hui. Uukar jad Chandigarh mein hai. Uu Sikh ke roop mein pali-badhi aur khud ke Sikh maanti hai. Phir bhi, apne lekhan mein uu aksar Sikh dharm aur anya dharmon, khaaskar Hindu pauranik kathaaon aur Sufi rahasyawadi Rumi ke lekhan se kahaaniyon ko rachnaatmak roop se phir se kehti hai.

Uu Kent State University (1972) se Sahitya mein MA karis, aur Iowa Vishwavidyalaya mein rachnaatmak lekhan ki padhaai karis.

1974-78 ke dauraan, uu Bharat mein rahi. Is avadhi mein, uu Delhi Vishwavidyalaya mein Sahitya padhaais, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, aur The Tribune ke liye freelancing karis, aur kavita, laghu kathaaen, aur puraskaar vijeta naatak likhis aur prakaashit karis.

Kapur ke pahile Donald Dean Powell se shaadi hui thi, je Vietnam ke anubhavi rahi aur 1993 mein aatmahatya kar liihli. Friedmann Schaub ke saath ek interview mein, uu Powell ki aatmahatya ke ek maulik roop se parivartanakaari ghatna bataiilis je uuke aur adhik aatma-jaagrook, sanvedansheel, karunaamay, aur dukh par rahasyamay drishtikon mein dilchaspi dehalas, jaise ki Sufiyon ke.

Uukar shaadi Payson R. Stevens se bhail hai. Uu log apna samay Bharat ke Himalaya mein Kullu ghaati aur San Diego, California ke Del Mar ke beech baantat hain.

Shikshan Career

Kapur atharah saal tak California ke Grossmont College mein professor rahi. Wahaan, uu naatak lekhan, kavita, rachnaatmak gair-kalpana, katha, pauranik katha, Shakespeare, aur mahila sahitya ke pathyakram padhaais.

Kritiyaan

Kapur ke lekhan ko Parabola aur The Sun jaise sankalan aur patrikaon mein chitrit kiya gaya hai. Unke saat naatak Nai Dilli ke Enact mein prakaashit hue the.

Sanyukt Rajya America mein kai radio vaarta aur podcasts mein unke lekhan ke baare mein unka interview liya gaya hai.

Pustaken

As a Fountain in a Garden (2005) Kapur ki apne poorv pati Donald Dean Powell ko 31 kavitaon ke maadhyam se vyakt ki gayi ek shokpoorn shrad'dhaanjali hai.

Ganesha Goes to Lunch (2007), Kapur dwara vibhinn pauranik sroton - Ramayana, Mahabharata, aur Puranon sahit - se vibhinn Hindu devtaaon ke aaspaas ki kahaaniyon ka rachnaatmak punarkathan hai.