Perumal Murugan's novel, 'Pyre', written in Tamil and translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is set in 1980 and tells the story of a rural couple belonging to different castes who fall in love and elope, which...
The Bihar museum amphitheatre came to life as Ahad Anhad, the first-ever Bihar Literature Festival, and commenced on the beautiful spring evening of 17 March 2023. At dusk, birds flew over the venue and headed to their homes...
Is taking up space on the camera film the birthright of a child? Is the mother, wife, widow, more so, woman asking to occupy that space selfish?
Sri shobkruth nama year Ugadi Greetings from Outlook Group to all Telugu people around the world
Attending the first Bihar Literature Festival is not all about celebrations and performances as Ahad Anhad defies the traditional temperaments of a literature festival. Here, authors, publishers, doctors and artists decide...
'Men and others have rage, we, women have our laughter': Women authors and editors talk about feminism, literature, patriarchy, and economy at the Bihar literature festival.
Mir was a driver by profession and would work long hours to feed his family. However, after his death, the family was left to fend for itself. Mir's three daughters and son—all aged between 2 to 10 –had to discontinue...
The writer Sandeep Jain writes under the pen name Timeless Poetry. He is a real estate broker to whom words come in an endless flow.
The book has been debated by Indologists over time and Kamil Zvelebil, the Czech expert on Tamil literature is of the opinion that this is the most fluid of...
The KLF has, without a doubt, secured its place in Odisha’s, as well as India’s, calendar of literature festivals.
Besides writing short stories, Mumtaz Shirin also brought out Urdu journal ‘Naya Daur’ with husband Samad Shaheen, which became a standard for journals at...
‘The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise’ is a combination of musings, travels back in time, and actual wandering. It goes back and forth in time,...
Legislators may be charged with defecting from a party if they willingly renounce their membership in accordance with the rules of the anti-defection statute....
As soon as the Supreme Court verdict was announced in the case of Sabarimala temple, the CPI(M) leadership seemed to take a pro-entry position, hoping that it...
Melting grassroots/in an extrovert honey/her passionate lips...like the cappadocia balloons- primrose, pastel pink.
Pain is a bedside lamp. It blinks like a jackal’s eyes, from the night bushes.
Read a poem by Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca on International Women’s Day 2023.
We hear various references to gaṇikā in many literary sources as a woman who was qualified and talented (nipun) in as many as 64 arts (chaunsath kala). The...
I am she who/Born free in the land of the free/Speaks for them.
Even before our memories could fade out the smile of the child who came out of the rubbles after more than 72 hours of struggle in devastated Turkey, several...
Shantashree Mohanty writes a poem about the experience of eating together with family.
Using the tropes of the seasons in her poems, Ananya Chatterjee has dealt with human relationships and nature interchangeably. The robin-abandoned Gulmohar and...
So at what point did you realise, that you’re not the family on TV?
