A Hindi journal brings on board several new voices and registers a remarkable literary feat
Many believe environment studies to be a Western concept, but concerns about the environment are deep-rooted in Eastern civilizations and their literature.
Let us hope that with the stamp of the Booker Prize on Geetanjali Shree’s novel, it will be more present in the storefront of book-sellers. And after it, other books translated from the bhashas
Caste biases run deep in the Hindi entertainment industry. There is no surprise if we bring a Dalit character only when we have to tell a 'Dalit story' and we write a Muslim character only when we have to tell a 'Muslim...
Writing is liberating for women in the sense that they can express themselves from the closest quarters of their being, a trove of enormous wealth, access to which they are denied.
Earlier, we Indians had to translate into English to reach the West. But now it’s people from the West who are attracted to Hindi literature and are translating our works, says Gulzar
The literary biography of Hindi author Nirmal Verma, written by writer-journalist Vineet Gill, is an ode to the master
Reflections on lasting themes like Partition, changing trends like alienation, and the lack of gender and caste perspectives in Hindi literature
Caught between a rapidly changing socio-political environment and cultural atrophy, literature in Uttar Pradesh is in limbo
Hindi pulp fiction has had a long relationship with cinema and television, which has now expanded to OTT and audio platforms with the digital boom.
While the digital boom is driving some writers and publishers to new heights, it’s at the same time pushing the traditional ecosystem that sustained Hindi...
The important role Hindi always played has finally begun to get its recognition after nearly 150 years. The world’s mirror has moved towards Hindi earlier as...
Publishers and writers discuss how these dirt-cheap novels with their plots inspired from news stories, larger-than-life villains and heroes became a rage in...
Literature coming out of the state once celebrated communal harmony, but current political developments have exacerbated the paradox and dilemma of Hindi...
Hindi Diwas: The silence of major writers suggests that the rightward shift of the Hindi heartland was inevitable.
A mature civilisation must ensure that writers are not prosecuted or hounded for their words
Just below the enlightened portals of the Hindi literary world is the darkness of the Hindi public sphere and the Hindi publishing world
'I often faced two nagging questions. Why have I written a Hindi writer’s life in English and why about his love life? Why not, is how I often counter. Why...
Braille Man of India, Swagat Thorat, translates popular Marathi and Hindi literature and news into Braille for the visually challenged
Perhaps no literary work captures the Bombay of yore, and anticipates the Mumbai of now, as Manohar Shyam Joshi's Kuru-Kuru Swaha
The International Booker Prize for Geetanjali Shree's Ret Samadhi put the spotlight on literature and translations, but for publishers, they often fail to even...
With a view to bringing voices from faraway places, especially of the marginalised and the forgotten, we have had poetry, stories and reports translated from...
‘The translator is the traitor’, they say in Italian. Such was the distrust and paranoia in Europe for translations that scholars were executed for...
Rajkamal Chaudhary (1929–1967) wrote outside the dicta of dominant Hindi ethics. His stories can be read like montages, flashes and sudden glimpses of the...
Asad Zaidi’s poetic voice has remained at an angular relationship to the Hindi (Hindu, Hindustan) literary world. Having written some of the landmark and...
