Hyphen’s inaugural issue brings together 17 writers and 11 translators across seven Indian languages, with Marathi as the language in focus
In International Booker prize-winning author Geetanjali Shree’s fiction, memory never quite walks a straight line
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 14 September 2026
The afterlife of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement lies in returning to the questions it left unresolved
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 28 August 2026
The Nagari Pracharini Sabha celebrated its 134th 'varshikotsav', drawing scholars, artists, writers and students back into a space many had begun to think of as a relic
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 24 July 2026
Poet, novelist, essayist, translator and literary provocateur Rajkamal Choudhary wrote in Hindi and Maithili with unusual fluency. His death anniversary is on June 19
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 12 June 2026
This novel refuses to settle into a mere lament for old age or a melancholic song of loneliness
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 1 June 2026
In ‘Made in India: The Story of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin and Indian Pharma’ Manish Sabharwal and Sundeep Khanna provide readers more than a mere corporate hagiography.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 16 May 2026
Delhi’s message is that AI governance must not become an exclusive club of the already powerful.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 17 February 2026
To ask whether Indians read for pleasure is to impose a narrow definition of pleasure. India’s literature festivals are not symptoms of a culture estranged from books. Literature festivals in India emerge organically. They are not substitutes for reading. They are extensions of it.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 11 February 2026
Educated in Calcutta and Delhi, Béteille spent much of his academic life at the Delhi School of Economics.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 6 February 2026
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