Charkula Arts Academy

Hasya Kavi Sammelan is a complete family entertainment. It promises to be an evening to be showered with poetry by famous kavis like Sharma Ji, Aashkaran Atal, Pradeep Chaube, Saral Sampat and Sita Sagar. One of the most awaited evening of the year where the poets would make your day with their power loaded punches!

Surender Sharma Ji - Remember Surender Sharma or Sharmaji? The poet & humorist who with his deadpan expression makes you laugh with delightful anecdotes? When one asks what is good time to talk to him, he shoots back, 'jab gharwali paas na ho' (when my wife is not around). Not everything about Sharma Ji is funny though. The man who wrote three books, Buddhimanon ki Moorkhatayein, Bade Bado ke utpad and Mansarovar ke Kowe, always had an inclination for serious poetry. The standard of poetry is continously falling,

Sharma Ji, who never took up his family business - manufacturing Ayurvedic medicines - is currently an advisor to the Railway ministry. Speaking on writing, his sense of humor was always apparent. He says, "I dont like intelligent but I was. I studied in Sri Ram College of Commerce. Beacuse of my sense of humor, my serious became my friends in college. By the time i reached the final year, I became popular with girls too. Those who would rag them, I used to rag them with my bunch of seven students. That was in the 1960's", says the poet who was a great friend of the late Rajiv Gandhi.Read more about other poets...