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…

The Portuguese who conquered Goa in 1510, in connivance with the missionaries, destroyed whatever literature existed prior to the 16th century. During the early years of conversions, the missionaries overzealously…

Tagore did not like the kind of Nationalism which was in theory and praxis in Europe during the years between two great world wars. He made a small rural place…

People love to tell you that you’re wasting your days and quite often your nights. While struggling with lumpy translations and anxious author­translator duos I also have to listen to:…

Culture is the sum total of a peoples’ way of life, their language, expressions, dress, dance and songs but above all it’s the history and memory of a community, without…

1.  INDIAN FICTION: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE It has become a cliché of literary criticism to say that the novelists in the so-called Third World “narrate the nation”; however on closer scrutiny…

Lush-green meadows. The most scary sentence I ever read to date continues to be a Kantian (Immanuel) observation. “The starry night without, and the moral law within.” More dense and…

Kashmiri is the only one language of the South-East Asia that is radically different from all the Indo-Aryan language in retaining the structural and phonological features of some proto-Indo- European…

K R Meera has expressed her anguish against the brutal killing of journalist-writer Gauri Lankesh outside her home in Bangalore by unidentified assailants on Tuesday night in an emotion packed…