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Jai Verma | |
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 Verma, c. 2012 | |
| Born | March, 1950 (age 73–74) |
| Awards | Adharshila Magazine Award 2016, Lord Mayor's Award 2017 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Meerut University |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Oasis Poems 2003,Kavya Tarang 2006,Saat Qadam |
Jai Verma is an Indian-born Hindi writer,educationalist,poet,and advocate of Hindi language and culture.
Jai Verma was born in Jiwana,Meerut,Uttar Pradesh,India,March 1950,the eldest of five children. After her primary education in Rudrapur,Nainital;she received a BA in English Literature,Economics,and Drawing and Painting from Meerut University.
She moved to Gateshead,Tyneside,UK on Gandhi's birthday:2 October,in 1971. In 1976,she moved to Nottingham,UK,where she has lived since.
Jai Verma contributed to the translation and adaptation of over thirty books into Hindi during her career as a Hindi teacher in Nottingham. In the Eighties,she worked as the Language Coordinator at the Nottingham Language Centre. She taught Hindi professionally from 1976 to 1991 at Nottingham's Kala Niketan School. [1] After settling in Nottingham in 1976,she began to become more involved in Hindi arts and culture,particularly in the field of poetry.
Throughout this period,her poetry and articles were published in a variety of magazines and newspapers worldwide (predominantly the UK,USA,India,and Canada). This in turn led to her poetry being accepted into several anthologies. She was featured in an article in the Indian Council of Cultural Relations special publication गगनान्चल1857 के150 वर्षपरविशेषांकअप्रैल-सितम्बर2006 (Gagnanchal,1857:150 Year Special Edition,April–September 2006) as one of the important people outside of India for promoting Hindi culture. [2] A member of the Nottingham Asian Arts Council since 1995,she was a founder members of a poetry group for multi-lingual poets and fans of multilingual,South Asian poetry in 2003 named Gitanjali Multilingual Literary Circle Trent (inspired by the Gitanjali group in the West Midlands. to promote and develop multilingual poetry outside of India. She remains the Chairperson of the group to this day. The group changed its name in 2011 to Kavya Rang (Colours of Poetry). She has given talks and recitals at World Hindi Conferences / ICOSOL conferences across the world,including Johannesburg,Moscow,Alighar,Budapest,New York;Toronto;Washington DC,Ujjain,Delhi,Meerut,Lucknow,Kurukshetra;and many other places.
She presented a weekly BBC Radio Nottingham programme 'Navrang' for several months during the 1980s. This was a dedicated programme for the local South Asian diaspora.
As a mature student,she studied for an advanced diploma in Practice Management;and a post-graduate in Service Management at Nottingham Trent University,graduating in 1994.
From 1989 to 2014 she was a practice manager at a Nottingham NHS surgery.
She has promoted and organised the Indian poetic performance art of Kavi Sammelan,setting up regular events as since 2004. This has developed into the International Kavi Sammelan events,set up under the banner of Kavya Rang,held in her home city of Nottingham,UK,and attracting internationally renowned guests.
Her story,Gulmohar, [3] originally published in the magazine Pravasi Duniya,was selected to be part of the Pravasi (diaspora) Hindi Sait BA curriculum reading list in 2015 by the University Grants Commission (UGC). [4] Her poem क्योंचाहूँनयाजन्मक्योंचाहहँमोक्ष(Why Should I Seek New Birth or Nirvana?) was included in the Maharashtra secondary Medium / High Education Committee (महाराष्ट्रराज्यमाद्यमिकवउच्चमाद्यमिकशिक्षणमंडल) curriculum for 2015. [5] [6] She is included in the MA Hindi syllabus as a परिचय(introduction) to Pravasi writers,at CCS University,Meerut.
In June 2016,Jai Verma was presented with the Adharshila Magazine Award,for "prominence in the field of literature" ;her writing helping Hindi become a world language. This Mahadevi Verma Samman was awarded alongside an invite to chair the meeting in Paris.
She is an active member of Nottingham Asian Arts Council,joining the committee in 1990,and a full board member since 2013. She is on the board of the Nottingham Festival of Words 2016,developing the festival's theme of discovering and strengthening links between Nottingham and India.
She has been active in arranging Indian poets visit Nottingham for annual events,and facilitating cultural exchange. [7]
Jai was an active member of the working group that saw Nottingham designated a UNESCO City of Literature on 11 December 2015, [8] and continues to support and work with the City of Literature [9] on projects following the award.
She was awarded the Lord Mayor's Award in March 2017 from the Lord Mayor of Nottingham,for her services in promoting Nottingham internationally.
Since 2018 she has been spending winters speaking in India,delivering lectures at,amongst others,Gandhi Nagar Ahmedabad;Meerut University;Vigyan Bhaven; [10] Jaipur University
Jai has been involved in several voluntary organisations and charitable campaigns over the years. She has been instrumental in setting up a primary school library in India. She actively supports an ongoing project for the Triputi Eye Hospital and worked with the India League,Nottingham to provide funds for local and overseas charities. She has raised emergency relief funds for the Asian tsunami and other natural disasters.
Jai was for many years an accomplished Badminton teacher,tutoring the sport in adult education. She is married with two children and three grandchildren. She enjoys Indian vegetarian cooking,golf,bridge,and spending time with family and friends [11]
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