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GLF Writer Of The Year

Laxman Gaikwad (2024)

Laxman  Maruti Gaikwad, hailing from Latur district of Maharashtra, is one of the most prominent names in Marathi literature. His...
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Urmila Pawar (2020)

The great Marathi writer Urmila is known for her frank and direct style of writing, which reflects her own experiences...
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Haldhar Nag (2017)

Best known as Lok Kabi Ratna. Haldhar Nag is a Sambalpuri language poet and writer from Odisha, India. Nag was...
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Baby Halder (2018)

Baby Halder is an Indian domestic help and author, whose acclaimed autobiography Aalo Aandhari (A Life Less Ordinary) in 2006 describes her harsh life growing...
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Manoranjan Byapari (2019)

The convict-turned-rickshaw puller-turned writer is a socio-political activist. Known as the pioneer of Dalit literature in Bengali, he was nakedly...
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Blog

  • The current write-up, sketchy and introductory in nature, provides a concise survey of the developments in Marathi literature in the twenty-first century. It looks at a range of essential literary…

  • The Portuguese who conquered Goa in 1510, in connivance with the missionaries, destroyed whatever literature existed prior to the 16th century. During the early years of conversions, the missionaries overzealously…

  • Tagore did not like the kind of Nationalism which was in theory and praxis in Europe during the years between two great world wars. He made a small rural place…

  • People love to tell you that you’re wasting your days and quite often your nights. While struggling with lumpy translations and anxious author­translator duos I also have to listen to:…

  • Culture is the sum total of a peoples’ way of life, their language, expressions, dress, dance and songs but above all it’s the history and memory of a community, without…

  • 1.  INDIAN FICTION: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE It has become a cliché of literary criticism to say that the novelists in the so-called Third World “narrate the nation”; however on closer scrutiny…

  • Lush-green meadows. The most scary sentence I ever read to date continues to be a Kantian (Immanuel) observation. “The starry night without, and the moral law within.” More dense and…

  • Kashmiri is the only one language of the South-East Asia that is radically different from all the Indo-Aryan language in retaining the structural and phonological features of some proto-Indo- European…

  • K R Meera has expressed her anguish against the brutal killing of journalist-writer Gauri Lankesh outside her home in Bangalore by unidentified assailants on Tuesday night in an emotion packed…

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News Update

  • Madhav Kaushik president of Sahitya Akademi

    March 12, 2024

    At today’s elections held in the country’s top literary body Sahitya Akademi Madhav Kaushik of the official panel was elected as the president, noted writer from Kerala C Radhakrishnan lost…

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  • Sahitya Akademi translation prize 2023

    The executive board of the Sahitya Akademi which met at New Delhi on Monday approved the selection of 24 books for the said prize which relates to translations first published…

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  • International Booker Prize Long list

    March 11, 2024

    the Booker Prize Foundation has released its longlist for the 2023 edition of the International Booker Prize. The key point being stressed as this longlist is that a quarter of the list comes…

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  • Jaipur Literature Festival on Feb 1-5

    January 27, 2024

    The 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2024 will take place in Jaipur’s Hotel Clarks Amer from 1st-5th February, 2024. The event is set to host over 250…

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  • ILFK begins on January 28

    .The Kerala Sahitya Akademi’s Internationala Literature Festival of Kerala (ILFK) will be held from January 28 to February 3. The Sahitya Festival will be staged at four venues in Sahitya…

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  • The Hindu Lit Fest begins on Jan 26

    January 26, 2024

    The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 in Chennai offers a two-day literary journey with renowned participants and engaging sessions. The two-day event promises a journey into the rich tapestry of literature,…

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  • Kolkata Literary Meet opens on Jan 23

    January 17, 2024

    The Kolkata Literary Meet will take place in Victoria Memorial Ground from 23rd-27th January, 2024. The event is set to captivate literature enthusiasts with scintillating conversations and cultural programmes. The…

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  • HLF to focus on Science and the City

    January 13, 2024

    The 14th edition of the Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) will be held at ‘hi-tech’ Hyderabad. Between January 26 and 28. The festival will be attended by prominent personalities such as…

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  • KLF 7th edition opens on Jan 12th

    January 11, 2024

    The seventh edition of the Kerala Literature Festival opens on Thursday, 12th January. The festival will be held at its regular venue on the Kozhikode beach. This edition of the…

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  • Sahitya Akademi Awards 2023

    December 22, 2023

    This year, the Sahitya Akademi Awards recognised nine poetry books, six novels, five short story collections, three essays, and one literary study for their outstanding contributions. The awards, spanning 24…

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  • Paul Lynch wins the 2023 Booker prize

    November 30, 2023

    Paul Lynch who is an Irish author won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel ‘Prophet Song’ beating London-based Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo’s debut novel “Western Lane”, at a…

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  • Perumal Murugan wins JCB Prize 2023

    November 20, 2023

    Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s novel ‘Fire Bird’, translated into English by Janani Kannan, won the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature, which was announced in New Delhi on Saturday. The book…

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  • Shinilal, PF Mathews get Kerala awards

    June 30, 2023

    Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 has been announced. V Shinilal’s Sambarkakranti was selected as the best novel. PF Mathews’ Rumble is the best short story. Dr K Sreekumar’s Chakaramambazham was…

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  • Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel won the 2023 International Booker

    May 30, 2023

    Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel have won the International Booker Prize 2023 for the novel Time Shelter. Time Shelter becomes the first novel originally published in Bulgarian to win the…

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  • Mauzo gets 57th Jnanpith Award

    Damodar Mauzo, a Goan short story writer, novelist, critic, and scriptwriter in Konkani, has been awarded the 57th Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor. Mauzo is the second Goan to receive the award,…

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Talent Turf

Ranjit is an acclaimed poet and a seminal art critic from Maharashtra but writes mostly in English. His most recent collection of poetry is Jonahwhale (2018). His other volumes of…

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Thus Spake…


‘The vested political and corporate interests don’t want the journalists to  speak truth to power, or any inconvenient truth for that matter. They want journalists to only say what  they like to hear’.

Shashi Kumar (print and broadcast journalist, filmmaker and media
entrepreneur.)

Blogs in other Languages


  • പുനത്തിലുമൊത്തൊരു പാതിരാക്കാലം

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    പുനത്തിൽ കുഞ്ഞബ്ദുള്ള കോഴിക്കോട് കണ്ടുപിടിച്ച ഭോജനാലയത്തിന്റെ കഥ ഈസ്റ്റ്‌ മാൻ കളറിൽ ടി വി കൊച്ചുബാവയും അക്ബർ കക്കട്ടിലും കൊടികുത്തിവാഴുന്ന കോഴിക്കോട്.എൺപതുകളുടെ അവസാനം. ഞാൻ നാട്ടിൽ പോയാൽ രണ്ടു ദിവസം കൊല്ലത്തു കഴിച്ചു കൂട്ടി പെട്ടിയുമെടുത്തു വടക്കോട്ടു വച്ചു പിടിക്കും. തൃശൂർ…

  • इन आदिवासियों का शीर्षक विमुक्त घुमंतू आदिवासी होना चाहिए

    December 5, 2017Read More...

    हमारे देश में आजादी के पहले आप राजी जनजाति के लिए 80173 में कानून बना उस कानून के तहत मां बाप बहन भाई बच्चे बूढ़े सभी जन्म से अपराधी ही…

  • साहित्य-संस्कृति पर समकालीन विचार

    November 7, 2017Read More...

    सामाजिक व आर्थिक व्यवस्था की जटिल स्थिति को साहित्य- भाषा की संरचना से जानना और उभरते हुए अनेक संस्कृति – केन्द्रों की बहुलता को समझना आवश्यक है । इसे मात्र…


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