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The great Marathi writer Urmila is known for her frank and direct style of writing, which reflects her own experiences of the myriad difficulties of being a woman and that,…
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Synaptic Narratives and Half-Bodied Women: Poetics and Practice of Vilas Sarang’s avant-garde writing
October 29, 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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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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Indian-origin author Sunjeev Sahota’s ‘China Room’ enters the Booker Prize longlist for fiction
Source : The Economic Times | Panache LONDON: Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for…
Homen Borgohain — the workhorse of the Assamese literary scene
Source : The Hindu – thREAD – Anindita Kar The late literary maven was instrumental in seeding and nurturing many an aspiring writer, journalist, or academician …
The state has withdrawn all support of serious cinema: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Source : The Hindu – C.S. Venkiteswaran As he turns 80, the celebrated filmmaker talks of censorship and the dilution of cinema seen on a phone screen …
American Booksellers Association apologises for anti-trans mailing
Source : Times of India The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is apologizing for sending a publication widely criticized as anti-transgender, Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing…
Center for Fiction longlist announced; these books made the cut
Source : The Indian Express The First Novel Prize, as the name suggests, is awarded to the best debut fiction. This was first awarded in 2006 and the…
Interview: Tahmima Anam, Author, The Startup Wife
Source : Hindustan Times – KX Ronnie Tahmima Anam’s new novel is about Asha Ray, a brilliant coder whose platform rivals the world’s biggest social media companies. Here,…
Written in the wild: the best radical nature writing
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Floyd Cooper, acclaimed children’s illustrator, dead at 65
Source : The Hindu He illustrated dozens of books and his work on Joyce Carol Thomas’ The Blacker the Berry brought him the Coretta Scott King Award in…
Faces in the water: Rakhshanda Jalil reviews ‘From Volga to Ganga’ by Rahul Sankrityayan, trs Victor Gordon Kiernan, Kanwal Dhaliwal
Source: The Hindu – Rakhshanda Jalil Rahul Sankrityayan’s rare erudition and imagination power this chronological series of vignettes recreating the past This book is quite unlike any…
Amitabh Bachchan pens a poem urging people to take precautions against COVID-19
Source : Times of India Veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan penned a poem to urge people to take precautions against Coronavirus during the pademic. Bachchan took to social media on…
Danny Shanahan, cartoonist with an absurd touch, dies at 64
Source : The Indian Express Daniel Patrick Shanahan was born July 11, 1956, in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Northport, on Long Island, and Bethlehem, Connecticut. He…
Daring daughters: Malashri Lal reviews Usha Akella’s ‘I Will Not Bear You Sons’
Source : The Hindu – Malashri Lal This book of feminist poetry is a call for women to unite globally against patriarchy A feminist assertion of identity…
A World Beyond Our Skin: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Potential of Fiction
Source : Literary Hub – Robert Rubsam Robert Rubsam on the Author’s Allegiance to the Human When the Berlin Wall fell, Jenny Erpenbeck was sleeping. “I spent that…
‘These days, I do not write with the same degree of frankness as before’: Salma
Source : The Hindu – Stanley Carvalho Tamil writer Salma’s literary beliefs feed into her political activism For someone who was pulled out of school before…
Girish Karnad — a life at play
Source : The Hindu – Sudhanva Deshpande Aesthete, intellectual, restless storyteller. Looking back at Girish Karnad in the light of his newly released memoirs He was our…
Dehradun: Two-day webinar on academic study of children’s literature concludes
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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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