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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Source : Times of India International bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer was in India recently. Archer, who was one of the TOI Write India authors for season two, met…
A good home for books
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Language of the soul
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I’m not averse to risk, I write to break stereotypes: Meghna Pant
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Pulitzer Prize 2019 winners announced
Source : Times of India Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announced the Pulitzer Prize 2019 winners on April 15 at the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, New York City….
In ‘Baby, I Don’t Care,’ Droll and Fierce Poems Influenced by Film Noir
Source : The New York Times Some poets are cutters, others are curers, showing up to every occasion like a condolence-wisher with a casserole. Chelsey Minnis is firmly…
‘The performance of class lies in hiding it’
Source : The Hindu – SUNDAY MAGAZINE The author ofMilk Teethsays she wanted to write about middle-class Indiaas an insider, without condescension but also without romanticising it One…
Franco’s Invisible Legacy: Books Across the Hispanic World Still Scarred by Censorship
Source : The Wire – Jordi Cornella-Detrell Whenever writings were explicit, liberal or anti-Catholic, the Francoist censors crossed them out. It’s exactly 80 years since the end of…
Fewer than 2% of British children’s authors are people of colour
Source : The Guardian Only 1.96% of authors and illustrators between 2007 and 2017 were British people of colour, compared to 13% of the population For a decade…
