Dagadu Parab’s Wedding Horse

By Jayant Kaikini,  Translation by Tejaswini Niranjana,  Illustration by Michael Byers
Illustration by Michael Byers

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Issue: Summer 2020 / Volume 96/2
Published: June 1, 2020
Jayant Kaikini

Jayant Kaikini is a Kannada poet, short-story writer, columnist, and playwright, as well as an award-winning lyricist and script and dialogue writer for Kannada films. He has won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award several times, in addition to winning various other awards in India, including the first Kusumagraj Rashtriya Bhasha...

Tejaswini Niranjana

Tejaswini Niranjana won the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for best translation of M. K. Indira’s Phaniyamma (1989) and the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for her translation of Niranjana’s Mrityunjaya (1996). She has also translated Pablo Neruda’s poetry and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar into Kannada. Her translations into English include Vaidehi’s Gulabi...

Michael Byers
Michael Byers

Michael Byers is an award-winning illustrator based in Canada. His clients include the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health, and Golf Digest. 

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