If reading for you is an exercise primarily in pleasure seeking, then Sharankumar Limbale’s novel will make you deeply uncomfortable. The battle in question is the war waged by upper castes on the bodies of Mahars, and the disfigured book is a harrowing archive documenting that barbarity in the form of a novel: Sanatan. Throughout this sprawling work, Limbale shifts …
A young professor at Calcutta University, who is also a recent recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, is using an unusual method of translation that is benefiting literature and students of literature alike: engaging the entire classroom in the process. Last month, Prof. Pramanick, 37, got the Sahitya Akademi Award for Dalit Nandantattwa, the Bengali translation — from Marathi — …
