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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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An extract from Perumal Murugan’s ‘Rising Heat’, translated by Janani Kannan
Source : The Hindu The adult world carries on, untroubled by a boy’s rage and humiliation. An extract from ‘Rising Heat’, Perumal Murugan’s first novel, published in 1991 and…
Jaipur Literature Festival: Celebrating translated gems
Source : The New Indian Express Renowned poet from Bengal Joy Goswami, will speak on ‘Translating Joy’ during his conversation with translator Sampurna Chattarji and poet and art critic Ranjit…
‘A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee’ review: A voice all her own
Source : The Hindu A life in letters of Anandibai Joshee, who struggled against all odds to become the first trained woman doctor from India and achieved much in a…
Roli Books announces His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography
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Ramachandra Guha: ‘Each one of us has rejected close friends’ for the NIF
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A German book and Reese Thomas’ pursuit of happiness
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“If you are being harassed, involve your parents, teachers. Go to the police if need be,” says author Novoneel Chakraborty
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The Way We Were: Fragmented tales from a beautiful mind
Source : Hindustan Times With mental health a growing concern in the pandemic, it’s worth revisiting a writer’s searing first-person account. In June 2006, a 63-year-old man walked out…
Books disappear from Hong Kong libraries
Source : The Hindu Activists see threat to academic freedom in the semi-autonomous city Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city’s libraries,…
How Perumal Murugan found literary stardom with his debut novel ‘Rising Heat’
Source : MintLounge The Tamil writer speaks about caste, rural society, and the making of his first novel, out next week in English for the first time In 1991, when…
Interview: Malika Amar Shaikh
Source : Hindustan Times Malika Amar Shaikh, Marathi poet and author of the searing autobiography I want to Destroy Myself, has had an eventful life. In a wide ranging conversation,…
RSL Christopher Bland Prize winner announced
Source : Times of India The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Christopher Bland Prize is an annual award which was started in 2019. It is given to the best…
‘Raja Rao saw himself first as a seeker and then as a writer’
Source : The Indian Express What is the significance of Kanthapura author Raja Rao’s collection of essays, The Meaning of India, today? In 1996, when he was 88 years old,…
Brit Bennett: ‘Last week was truly the wildest week of my life’
Source : The Guardian The US author on topping the bestseller charts with her new novel, why being right is overrated, and the TV show bringing her joy in lockdown…
Why Shantanu Datta’s new book Calling Elvis hits the right notes
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Books in a bottle: Will the smell of books become a thing of the past?
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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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