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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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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro review – what it is to be human
Source : The Guardian The Nobel laureate examines loneliness, sacrifice and the meaning of love in a novel narrated by a machine with feelings Klara and the Sun asks…
Book to expose subculture of scams in India
Source : The Indian Express Beside revealing how scamsters work their inventiveness, determination and willingness to adapt — the book, according to the publishers, also shows “how various…
A young author who simply wants to play with words
Source : mint lounge Khushi Goel, a ten year old from Delhi, has written a deeply empathetic tale in her debut book about a bunny who wants to be…
Struggling in lockdown, I have found solace in the wisdom of my grandmother Nikita Gill
Source : The Guardian My grandmother tells me off for bemoaning my life. Her memories of losing everything and beginning again continue to inspire me, writes poet Nikita Gill…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, celebrated Beat poet and publisher, dies aged 101
Source : CNN Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Beat poet, publisher and founder of San Francisco’s beloved City Lights bookstore, has died aged 101. He passed away from lung disease on…
Everything Must Change! review – the left’s big beasts tackle a post-pandemic future
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/25/everything-must-change-review-avila-horvat-chomsky-zizek-covid-conversations-future Conversations featuring the likes of Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno and Slavoj Žižek imagine a more communal world after Covidorld was first forced behind closed doors by Covid-19. In Giovanni…
Girl A: Abigail Dean on her shocking debut novel that’s taking the book world by storm
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/25/abigail-dean-girl-a-thriller-debut-google-lawyer Has this Google lawyer written the book of the year? The part-time author talks about the inspiration for her thriller about siblings who flee abusive parents and their ‘house…
Book sales defy pandemic to hit eight-year high
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/25/bookshops-defy-pandemic-to-record-highest-sales-for-eight-years Despite shops being closed for much of 2020, figures show Britons bought books in volume – although many authors continued to struggle. More than 200m print books were sold in…
25 Great Writers and Thinkers Weigh In on Books That Matter
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/books/great-book-reviews.html On Oct. 10, 1896, after years of robust literary coverage at The New York Times, the paper published the first issue of the Book Review. In the 125 years…
Tae Keller Wins Newbery Medal for ‘When You Trap a Tiger’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/books/newbery-medal-caldecott-award.html The American Library Association announced two of the country’s most prestigious prizes for children’s books on Monday: the Newbery Medal, which went to Tae Keller for “When You Trap…
Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ among 2020’s most borrowed titles
https://www.newkerala.com/news/2021/6097.htm ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama and ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ by Delia Owens were among the most popular ebooks borrowed from libraries in 2020, recent data shows. Data by OverDrive, the…
18 book covers in Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize longlist
https://www.newkerala.com/news/2021/14471.htm The Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize has announced its longlist for the sixth edition at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2021. The nominated books in the longlist include Sarojini’s Mother;…
Ceaseless talk, advice and women
Source : The New Indian Express She longed to seal her ears with wax just so she didn’t have to listen to his ceaseless talk. BENGALURU : When Parveen…
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, launches an online reading room
Source : Times of India Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is an avid reader. Following the popularity of her book recommendations in 2020, Camilla has now launched a book…
Writing poetry has often helped me heal: Shamayita Sen on her debut collection of poems
Source : The Indian Express In a conversation with indianexpress.com, Sen dissects the theme of her poems, the running subjectivity in them and discusses her future works For Shamayita…
Memoir ‘I am no Messiah’ my way of capturing the experiences of common man for posterity: Sonu Sood on his philanthropy during Covid times
Source : Hindustan Times Sonu Sood’s philanthrophy as he came forward to help stranded and jobless migrants during the over two month-long lockdown from March 25, 2020 made him…
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,