Dalit women's autobiography-writing in Marathi is a long tradition that will not let women's voices in the Dalit movement be lost
Reflections on lasting themes like Partition, changing trends like alienation, and the lack of gender and caste perspectives in Hindi literature
Annie Ernaux's fiction turns familial history into social history and ends up speaking not only for herself but for women as a collective
A range of writings by the small voices of history shows us that suffering not only produces great literature it also generates history
Caught between a rapidly changing socio-political environment and cultural atrophy, literature in Uttar Pradesh is in limbo
What do we have except our own memories and the memories of those around us to build the herstories of women, to save them from total erasure?
For universal human rights to prevail, religion has to be kept out of public life
The triumph of Annie Ernaux's writing is that she makes the reader feel less alone in the world
In the space between what we say and what we leave out rests the intentions and deceptions of a literary text
One of the most chilling aspects of history is that what happened before can recur. That is perhaps why genuine historians and litterateurs attach so much...
Writing in a way is nothing but living one’s existential homesickness on a piece of paper. It is a process of consistently returning to various points of...
Sukrita Paul Kumar is an accomplished poet, painter, critic, translator and well-known academic. Vanishing Words is Sukrita’s fifth collection of poems. And...
The importance of interpersonal intelligence is clearest around the management of personnel or human resource development. It is, in fact, continuous with...
Dr. Temsula Ao belonged to the rare category of poets who used poetry as a strong social tool to infuse the voices and concerns of her land and people. She...
Naga writer Veio Pou writes a poem for late poet Temsula Ao, who died on Sunday night. She was 76.
A philologist's interpretation of the age when the epic of Ramayan was composed, based on the names of the characters in the story
Each year, thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists, previous Nobel Prize laureates and members of parliamentary assemblies and...
Nobel Prize for Literature 2022 has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux.
Before Salman Rushdie’s 'The Satanic Verses', a 1932 Urdu anthology 'Angarey' had instigated similar angst in India, making the uproar over later banned...
In a world divided between existential needs and metaphysical conundrums, books are the temporal doors to realms of knowledge, fantasy, spirituality and...
How this author and lover of languages has the situational urge to switch from English to Portuguese, Mandarin to Kannada to emote better
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.
