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Randhir as a
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During
his early creative years, his poetry began to appear
in little magazines, literary journals and papers
in Calcutta and he was often invited to read his work
at various gatherings. Some poems were even translated
into Bengali and used in theatrical performances.
 His
work gained wider acceptance by the time he was in
his early twenty and he began travelling around the
country in 1973, reading his poems in far-flung towns
and cities, building up a readership uniquely his
own.
Alliance
Francaise and Max Muller Bhavan presented a number
of multi-media programmes based on his poetry in Mumbai,
Pune and New Delhi. The Artist Gerard Rousseau exhibited
his drawings in Mumbai, inspired by the series of
his poems entitled, Dream Poems.
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In
New Delhi his poetry was used by several organisations for various
purposes: during anti Gulf War demonstrations, by SAHMAT for Artists
Against Communalism harmony gatherings, by Dadi Pudumjee for a
number of State/ National and International Puppet Theatre performances,
by ASIANET who specially commissioned A.R.Rahman to set four poems
to music.
Randhir
travelled to Bulgaria and (the old) Czechoslovakia (before the
Velvet Revolution) as a Visiting Writer, nominated by the National
Academy of Letters and the Indian Council For Cultural Relations,
reading his work at literary and public gatherings (notably the
Festival Of India in Bulgaria where he read
to a record gathering of four thousand people in Sofia). The Victoria
and Albert Museum (London) also used his poems for the India exhibition.
His
poetry has been used in creative arts and educational workshops
in Ireland and England. These include: projects and  exhibitions
for One World Week, self development workshops for women, professional
workshops for Teachers, Cultural Education Courses in Colleges
of Education, Creative Projects with Minority Groups and Refugees,
Education Classes for Traveller Education Support Groups.
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Readings
of his work have taken place during lecture presentations on India,
exhibition openings and Arts Festivals in Dublin and rural Ireland.
Alliance
Francaise hosted an exhibition in 1996 of photographers, illustrators
and painters, in response to his poetry.
Randhir
Khare's fiction and essays have been dominantly concerned with
minority and marginal communities struggling to survive in times
of radical change. His work has been published in leading journals,
newspapers and magazines and has appeared as books.
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