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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A BRIEF SURVEY OF MARATHI LITERATURE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
October 22, 2018 Read More...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…
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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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Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry
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The National’s Tahira Yaqoob nominated for literary award
Source : The National Comment editor Tahira Yaqoob is in the running for the Mogford Prize for short fiction We have a potential prize winner in our midst….
An ode to women
Source : The Asian Age Novoneel Chakraborty talks about his autobiographical novel Half Torn Hearts. For Novoneel Chakraborty, Half Torn Hearts, his 11th novel, is a book that remains…
‘The real hijab is that of patriarchy’ – Sabyn Javeri on the veiled world in Hijabistan
Source : The New Indian Express “For me, the real veil is drawn over the divide between men and women and between women and women and between people and society,”…
The wolves of Kuala Lumpur
Source : The Hindu – SUNDAY MAGAZINE – Manasi Mathkar A round-the-clock sale of books at 50-90% off: welcome to BBW, the world’s largest book sale At a…
A poem is a many-splendoured thing
Source : The Hindu BusinessLine-BLink Ahead of Poetry Day — celebrated across the world on March 21 — a look at an assortment of poetry that focuses on…
Showing disclaimers in films an ‘assault’ on one’s work: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Source : The Week Known for his sensitive portrayals and intense storylines, globally renowned auteur Adoor Gopalakrishnan feels that showing disclaimers during smoking and drinking scenes in films is…
City and its Libraries
Source : DNA – Sohail Hashmi Great civilisations gave birth to great cities and most ancient cities were known to have their own great libraries. Whether it was the…
Just how global is the 2019 Man Booker International Prize longlist of translated fiction?
Source : Scroll.in It’s not so much the individual hits and misses as the fact that large parts of the world are not represented. Are translated books from those areas…
Ode to the world wide web
Source : The Hindu – SUNDAY MAGAZINE – K. Srilata Leading up to World Poetry Day, a look at how much Anglophone poetry has changed. The market-unaware Indian…
