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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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Five authors tell us what keeps them going
Source : The Telegraph From humour to children’s literature, this is what they had to say Dharini Bhaskar I’m told the earth spins languidly these days; the air hangs still….
Sylvia Plath, the beekeeper, Leo Tolstoy, the chess player: 5 writers and their fascinating hobbies
Source : Hindustan Times A throwback to the times when our favourite writers lived and had fascinating hobbies. Ayn Rand collected stamps, Emily Dickinson baked, Jack Kerouac enjoyed inventing fantasy…
Picture book on disability to be published soon
Source : Times of India Literary agent and debut author James Catchpole has penned a disability-themed picture book based on his own childhood experiences. The world rights of…
Free time? Savour books, films and rustle up dishes
Source : The Telegraph During 21-day nationwide lockdown, many are reviving their habit of reading books Some PDF files are doing the rounds on many WhatsApp groups in Assam….
This old library in a Punjab village is encouraging the youth to read
Source : The Indian Express A 42-year-old library in a small village finds new readers Way back in 1978, when talking about a library was rare in Punjab’s…
The Lockdown Diaries
Source : Hindustan Times Column: Filmmaker/Author Piyush Jha wonders what kind of literature will the Coronavirus spawn midst all the frenetic social media sharing going on during this Coronavirus-Lockdown…
Harry Pottering around at home? Rowling to rescue bored kids in lockdown
Source : Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – British author J. K. Rowling is hoping her much-loved Harry Potter series will work its magic on bored children stuck at home during the…
Linda Grant Wins Wingate Literary Prize 2020 For ‘A Stranger City’
Linda Grant is one of the finest English novelists and journalists in today’s time. She has also been the winner of the Orange Prize 2020, and was shortlisted for the Booker…
Books and movies that predicted Corona virus outbreak years ago!
Coronavirus has already claimed around 3,132 lives and infected more than 92,000 people globally. While the world continues to grapple with the infectious disease, more and more cities are reporting…
International Children’s Book Day amid Corona pandemic
The International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated on April 2, the birthday of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Founded in 1967 by the International Board on Books for Young…
Book sales increase as the world self isolates
Source : Times of India As the world is stuck indoors and having to entertain themselves, it only makes sense that people will turn to books for entertainment….
Books are needed now more than ever
Source : Hindustan Times – Priya Kapoor Priya Kapoor of Roli Books writes that the publisher will have regular podcasts and other online events through the lockdown During this…
Poet of the Fall: The humane verses of Kashmir’s Madhosh Balhami
Source : The Indian Express – EYE A new YouTube series spotlights the farmer-poet who lost his life’s work in a crossfire. It was 1 pm on March…
Prize shares £10,000 between publishers amid coronavirus damage
Source : The Guardian Fitzcarraldo Editions wins Republic of Consciousness prize for Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s Animalia, but money is split between five tiny presses Small press Fitzcarraldo Editions, which…
Mirza Waheed’s Tell Her Everything, Santanu Das’ India, Empire, and First World War Culture win The Hindu Prize 2019
Source : Firstpost The 2019 edition of The Hindu Prize has been awarded to Mirza Waheed’s Tell Her Everything in the fiction section and Santanu Das for India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images…
Madhuri Vijay bags Crossword Book Award for novel on Kashmir
Source : Hindustan Times The prestigious award in the jury category is the third major literary prize that the Bengaluru-born, US-based writer has won for her book ‘The Far Field’…
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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