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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Interview with Jayanta Mahapatra: A doyen of Indian-English poetry
Source : The Hindu – Sunday Magazine – Sailen Routray He is the first Indian-English poet to get the Sahitya Akademi award and now the first Indian-English poet to…
‘Before you start, write the book in your head’
Source : The New Indian Express Ruskin Bond unveils new book amidst 800 young minds. Celebrated author Ruskin Bond released his latest work, Words From My Window – A Journal,…
Franz Kafka archive reclaimed by Israel national library
Source : The Guardian Missing author’s papers return to Tel Aviv collection initiated by Max Brod in 1939 Israel’s national library has unveiled a missing batch of Franz Kafka’s papers, ending…
Penguin to publish Balraj Sahni”s biography authored by son
Source : Outlook Penguin to publish Balraj Sahni”s biography authored by son New Delhi, July 20 “The Non-Conformist: Memories of my Father Balraj Sahni”, a biography by his son Parikshit…
Magic of fourteen…
Source : The New Indian Express …short stories with dollops of fantasy by 14 female authors across India compiled in one book — Magical Women CHENNAI: A 15-year-old girl travels across the…
Leaving the fields behind: The life and times of Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Source : The Hindu – Sunday Magazine – Sachidananda Mohanty Dhan Gopal Mukerji was writing diaspora fiction in the 1920s, long before the concept became fashionable Indian-American authors…
Symposium on Literature and Contemporary Society held in Jaipur
Source : Times Of India Even if one chooses to become a doctor or engineer, it is extremely important to study subjects of Liberal Arts such as literature, philosophy and…
Booker Prize: Irish author Kevin Barry on longlist
Source : B B C Irish author Kevin Barry has been longlisted for the Booker Prize for his book Night Boat to Tangier. Mr Barry, who was born…
Sahitya Akademi announces awards in Maithili
Source : Times of India Sahitya Akademi, the national academy of letters, on Friday announced the winners of its 2019 Yuva and Bal Puraskar in Maithili language. The…
July 13, 1905: A Namboodiri woman is convicted of adultery and made an outcaste. This is her story
Source : Scroll.in The first edition of ‘Outcaste’, the English translation of Matampu Kunhukuttan’s Malayalam novel ‘Brushte’, was published in 1996. “Her inner being boiled and foamed. She visualised the…
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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