Gateway LitFest Writer Of The Year
Manoranjan is the Gateway LitFest writer of the year. The convict-turned-rickshaw puller-turned writer is a socio-political activist. Known as the pioneer of Dalit literature in Bengali, he was nakedly illiterate…
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Synaptic Narratives and Half-Bodied Women: Poetics and Practice of Vilas Sarang’s avant-garde writing
June 15, 2019 Read More...(Previously published in Journal of Higher Education and Research Society: A Refereed International Journal, Vol 4 Issue I, ISSN: 2349-0209, April 2016, 97-107) ‘Literary creation is pre-eminently a synaptic activity’,…
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इन आदिवासियों का शीर्षक विमुक्त घुमंतू आदिवासी होना चाहिए
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…
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Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018 and 2019
Source : B B C Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two winners were named – one for…
Curated evenings for poetry connoisseurs
Source : The Asian Age – SUDEEP SEN Initiatives like ‘Poetry under the Pilkan Tree’ offer poets a warm, appreciative, environment with an engaged audience of literary aficionados….
Indian author on British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize shortlist
Source : Times of India Aanchal Malhotra’s book ‘Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided’ has been shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural…
The life, love and poetry of Amrita Pritam
Source : The Indian Express Sunday-EYE She wrote about female sexuality, self-realisation and the pain of loss at a time when women mostly wrote on conservative themes. Remembering the rebellion…
Daryaganj book market set to return this weekend in Delhi
Source : The New Indian Express According to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, the Mahila Haat, situated opposite Broadway Hotel in Daryaganj, will host the booksellers this Sunday. …
Dalit writing, global contexts: The tour de force that is Manoranjan Byapari’s Interrogating My Chandal Life
Source : Firstpost – Yogesh Maitreya For many readers of the English language, encountering Interrogating My Chandal Life, by Manoranjan Byapari, is nothing short of entering a world of magical…
Packed with interesting content
Source : The Hindu From literary pieces to social and political articles, ‘Kadhai Solli’ covers a wide range of topics ‘Kadhaisolli:’ a quarterly, published by “Pothigai – Porunai – Karisal,”…
‘All the rest is flamboyance’
Source : The Hindu – SUNDAY MAGAZINE – DAVID LUNN His latest novel, a strikingly contemporary reworking ofDon Quixote,is a satire. And Salman Rushdie suggests in this interview that satire…
Literature on the subaltern world
Source : The Hindu The book launch of the English translation of Poomani’s socially-relevant Vekkai was marked by some intriguing observations by the author P Manickavasagam, popularly known as Poomani,…
A literary salon by the roadside
Source : The Hindu – SUNDAY MAGAZINE Welcome to Veranda, a teashop in a Kerala village, where ideas flow as liberally as the tea, run by school dropout-turned-littérateur Shukoor Pedayangode At…
What is a psychological thriller?
Source : Times of India The genre of thrillers is no stranger to the bestseller list. An analysis of book sales in the UK over a year from December…
Parents must encourage their children to read books: CoP
Source : The Hindu Curtains down for Madurai Book Fair Parents put pressure on their children to perform well in their academic studies. Both parents and teachers must encourage…
90 eclectic entries for USD 25,000 DSC literary prize shed light on women and debut authors
Source : The New Indian Express Of the entries, 41 per cent are from debut novelists and 47 per cent from women writers. NEW DELHI: The strong role of women…
HT Picks – the most interesting books of the week
Source : Hindustan Times A look at a high-powered marriage, a novel that’s on the Booker shortlist, and a big book on the human capacity for ideation are all on…
The End of the Affair: Of Kiran Nagarkar, memory, and separating art from the artist
Source : Firstpost On Thursday night, a little after 11 pm, a colleague texted me the news that Kiran Nagarkar had passed away. After years of this, you react instinctively: Write…
Copies of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel released early by mistake
Source : Times of India Copies of Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ were mistakenly sent to readers early, the publisher said on September 4, sending fans of…
Thus Spake…
The biggest challenges faced by poetry today is the challenge of freedom. No way of writing is sacrosanct. The challenge lies in remaining true to yourself and create something original, rather than to contrive, a practice that is usually seen in contemporary poems,
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