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Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih: “I believe in literary ambidextrousness”

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How did you feel when you were announced as the winner of this year’s Shakti Bhatt Prize? In a vast and complex country like India, these languages would mean one’s mother tongue and the language of interaction. A native author’s work with any literary merit must “go singing through the world” as Pablo Neruda put it. Those being pitched by …

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Book Box:Why Those in Power Fear Your Bookshelf

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I come down from the mountains to a crammed calendar. My roommate from school is visiting Mumbai, and we gather to spend an evening with her — five friends who go back thirty years to our days at DPS R.K. Puram. I’ve known Karve as the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author of a book of essays on the Mahabharata called Yuganta. …

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Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu

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Kerala’s story is now part of folklore. Unlike many Pulayas and other Dalit castes who worked in the fields of the Namboodris, Nairs, and Syrian Christians — the dominant castes around whom the historiography and sociology of Kerala is built with even conflicts, disagreements and wars located around the arc of these three communities – Kochu’s father owned a piece …

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Nusrat F. Jafri's 'This Land We Call Home' defies every official definition of ‘Indiannness’

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The work of memoir is to move from the personal to the particular, to make sense of anecdotes and experiences in a way that makes sense of the world. Nusrat Jafri’s This Land We Call Home attempts this not with her life alone but with the collective story of her family, going through transformations of faith, caste and class. “I …

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Published : Nov 27, 2024 11:00 IST - 2 MINS READ A Touch of Salt Anita Agnihotri, translated by Arunava Sinha Penguin India Rs.399 This is the story of the Agariyas, the salt-harvesters in the Rann of Kutch. ___ Across the River Bhaichand Patel Speaking Tiger Rs.499 Two young women from Old Delhi belonging to different faiths are the best …

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Book Review| Weena Pun’s ‘Kancchi’: A Captivating Tale of a Mother’s Search for her Missing Daughter in Nepal

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Published : Nov 27, 2024 10:28 IST - 5 MINS READ One dark November morning in 1995, Maiju surreptitiously escorts her 16-year-old daughter down the slippery, rain-drenched slopes of Torikhola in Nepal to help her catch a bus to her aunt’s house in Pokhara. “The age apsaras are when they are sent to lure wise old sanyasis out of their …

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Koshala literature fest in Lko: ‘Women’s contribution in history limited to few chapters’

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The contribution of women in history was limited to a few chapters. The records still exist in the archives of Lucknow.” While discussing her latest book titled, ‘The Lion and the lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh’ she spoke about Nawabs, especially Nawab Shuja ud Daula, his wife and mother, Bahu Begum and Nawab Begum, and his eclectic son, …

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A Brutal Ballad of Rural Maharashtra

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Hurda is a novel that tackles the issue of gender and patriarchy in rural Maharashtra. It is a polyphonic narrative that jumps between different subplots, capturing the brutality of the village justice system and the harshness of life for women. The novel also offers a sharp critique of the modern-day economy of heartbreak.

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A Journey Through the Rich Tapestry of Indian and South Asian Art

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This article provides a comprehensive overview of B.N. Goswamy's latest book, 'Ruminations: 101 & More Short Essays on the Spirit of Indian Art'. The book explores the rich history of Indian and South Asian art, featuring evocative descriptions of the lost artisans' guilds of Europe, the dazzling embroideries in the Calico Museum, and the beauty of Tibetan sand mandalas. The …

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Aditi Maheshwari Goyal – “Publishing is in flux after the pandemic”

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Vani Prakashan has entered its sweet sixties. The Vani Prakashan group’s massive backlist, which includes Bharatiya Jnanpith and Yatra Books, required a great deal of care and attention to detail. Whether it is Karl Marx’s Das Kapital or Russian epics like Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, readers have responded enthusiastically to literary translations. It took decades of hard work from the …

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Hindi Diwas special | Malini Awasthi, Yatindra Mishra and Salim Arif: The Hindi poets we like

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On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, three personalities from the Hindi heartland share their beloved poets and what drew them to their works. Salim Arif, Malini Awasthi and Yatindra Mishra Malini Awasthi, folk singer Goswami Tulsidas, for Ramcharitmanas and Sant Kabir with his timeless work, remain my all-time favourite poets. Among modern poets, while there are so many I admire, …

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The musafir who doesn’t rest on his laurels: Gulzar readies two new books

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: He is at his writing desk at 9.30 am sharp, rain or sunshine, all set to weave a tapestry of images and ideas, fact and fiction, syllables and silence, even as a reclining Buddha, frozen in marble and installed in the courtyard, smiles softly. I face it whenever I sit down to write,” he said, adding, “It’s a never …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: Hisham Matar’s ‘friends’, Lara on Lara, Ajaz Ashraf on Bhima Koregaon and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The author manages to keep the reader in the proverbial shoes of Khaled as he is consumed by the idea of his only two friends turning into men of action while he watches from the sidelines, forever exiled.” In reviews, we read Ajaz Sharma’s reflections on the Bhima Koregaon violence …

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Review: This Land We Call Home by Nusrat F Jafri

Hindustan Times

Chronicling four generations of a family starting from the late 1800s to the 2010s against the backdrop of the birth and evolution of a nation, Nusrat F Jafri expertly blends narrative memoir with considerable research to deliver an exceptional work of creative nonfiction. In her narrative memoir, Nusrat F Jafri blends her family’s history with considerable research into politics, history …

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the hindu on books newsletter Christophe Jaffrelot on Modi’s politics, PEN award for Kannada writer and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Women often find themselves juggling roles as mother, wife, woman, artist — “in that exact sequence, never reversed.” In her new book, Parade, Rachel Cusk proposes three potent ideas: the transient nature of femininity, comparing it to the eternal recurrence of violence, motherhood, not just its thematic concerns but also …

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Sahitya Akademi-winning author Ramesh Karthik Nayak is the voice of the marginalised

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Beyond the limitations and diktats of the urban middle-class imagination of literature, there lies an abundance of Indian vernacular literature that explores the neglected margins of our society. A representative of the Banjara tribe in Telangana, Ramesh Karthik Nayak, 26, is one such voice. Nayak is the youngest and the first Telugu author to be honoured with the prestigious Sahitya …

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The Hindu on Books | Memoirs of Aruna Roy, Bela Bhatia; talking to Karthik Muralidharan, Salim Durani’s biography and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. But, she writes, that lack of money is only one aspect of it; there are other worries like indebtedness, illness, powerlessness, humiliation and violence that “follow them around like shadows.” In reviews, we read Neel Mukherjee’s new novel, Peace Adzo Medie’s Nightbloom, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2024 …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: ‘Gujarat under Modi’, Janaki Bakhle on Savarkar and Hannah Ritchie on saving earth

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. However, as he writes in Preface 2023, the legal advisers of publishers found the manuscript to be of “high risk” with its “unyielding view of Narendra Modi’s regime” in Gujarat as Chief Minister. In 2001, Jaffrelot called Gujarat “a laboratory for Hindu nationalism” and in 2010, Howard Spodek called it …

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'Manohar Kahani' book review: A thrilling read that makes one revisit a time when chaos seemed enjoyable

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Growing up watching Abbas Mastan’s movies was a great way to add some action to a calm weekend. Reading Raghu Srinivasan’s Manohar Kahani makes one revisit a time when chaos seemed enjoyable. Kalyani and Bambi were finally living the life they wished for A storm, however, comes knocking when a rich NRI from Africa wants to buy Kokum Grove. Manohar …

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Reading democracy: 12 writers pick their favourite works on India

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NEW DELHI : Every five years, as Indian democracy gears up for its biggest carnival—the general election—publishers fall in step with the spirit of the season. View Full Image Kusuma Dharmanna's Harijana Shatakam ‘THIS BROWN RULERSHIP’ True democracy requires a deep consciousness of humanity —Gogu Shyamala As children, we grew up with stories about independence, freedom and nationalism. View Full …

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Book review | Tim Gurung’s ‘The Gorkha Grief’ presents a sympathetic outlook towards the warrior community

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In his second effort, Gurung travelled to various parts along India’s northern foothills where Gorkhas were brought by the British or they chose to settle down After scripting Ayo Gorkhali: A History of the Gorkhas in 2020, Tim I Gurung has authored what can be called a sequel, The Gorkha Grief, which, like his maiden effort, is a repository of …

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Koshala Lit Fest: Lucknow is not just a city, it is a culture

Hindustan Times

Experts from different fields shared their views and experiences about the city during a panel discussion on the concluding day of three-day Koshala Literature Festival on La Martiniere college campus here on Sunday. Panellists included writer and film-maker Muzaffar Ali, Australian historian John Zubrzycki, author Gurcharan Das besides academic, food critic and historian Pushpesh Pant. Gurcharan Das, Muzaffar Ali, John …

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Author Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi on the protagonist of her novel, The Centre - The Hindu

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Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s novel, The Centre, draws you in from the very first line, thrusting you straight into a world that steadily gets more dystopian. Siddiqi’s debut novel, while an effortless read, raises big questions around appropriation, identity, the immigrant experience and language privilege. Anisa’s desire to be a “real” translator, to be recognised by an establishment, reminds me a …

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Paperback alleys: A new platform lists beloved tales starring cities of the subcontinent

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That’s the question Divya Ravindranath, a researcher and faculty member with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bengaluru, posed on X in 2022. In a year, she had gathered enough responses to build a rudimentary database; it has since grown from those original 100 titles to 400, and is now the ongoing crowdsourced platform Cities in Fiction, co-founded in …

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Un-hintered access: The Book of Bihari Literature holds many surprises

Hindustan Times

Magadhi-Prakrit was the official language of emperors’ courts, as far back as the 4th century BCE. As a student at Delhi University, then as Indian ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros and, in recent decades, as deputy director general of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Abhay would seek out and discover rich stores of Magahi folk tales, short stories and …

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The Hindu on Books | Remembering Gandhi, countdown to Jaipur Literary Festival and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Read about the sessions at The Hindu Lit Fest here In books this week, we interview Mary Beard, Professor Emerita of the Classics at Cambridge, and an expert on the Roman world, who will be addressing two sessions at the upcoming Jaipur Literary Festival from February 1-5, and Booker winner …

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The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | Award-winning novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on her first non-fiction book, ‘An Uncommon Love’

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Sometimes changing your mind can teach you a new trick or two. When I was asked by my publisher if I’d be interested in writing a biography of the early years of author Sudha Murty and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, I turned down the offer right away. In the process, I discovered something very interesting: writing non-fiction isn’t that different …

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The Hindu on Books | Countdown to The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 with a preview and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. “The Hindu Lit Fest ensures that it actively makes room for an experience that both fosters and champions, above all, ‘free speech, the highest ideals of democracy, and a pluralism of expression in the arts and literature’. It has shaped my vocation as a historian, my life as a social …

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Bhasha literatures cross borders

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When academician and literary historian Professor N.S. “I ended up deleting most of the titles because they largely spoke to Kannada audience,” says Gundur, one of the three recipients of the first edition of the New India Foundation Translation Fellowship, which seeks to bring knowledge texts from various Indian languages to English. “It is a fascinating study of medieval Kannada …

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The Hindu on Books | A new biography of Sheikh Abdullah and Kashmir, B.N. Goswamy on the Indian cat, talking to Anita Nair and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. “Remittances by migrant workers from cities in southern and western India, like Bengaluru and Mumbai, provide valuable financial support for families back in the hinterland.” Jodhka emphasises that “the village” itself is no single thing but diverse, and that it is imperative that for it to grow, “it is time …

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Book review | 'Raw Umber': Sara Rai's lyrical memoir unveils the hues of Hindi literature's legacy

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The book ‘Raw Umber’ stands as solid proof of Rai’s ability to navigate the delicate interplay of colours, cultures, and storytelling, leaving an indelible mark on the canvas of literary memoirs Sara Rai’s memoir, ‘Raw Umber’, is a riveting journey into the vibrant world of Hindi literature’s first family. Growing up privileged as the fifth child of Sripat Rai, Sara’s …

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Book Review | Smriti Ravindra’s ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’ by Abdullah Khan

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Published : Oct 24, 2023 10:52 IST - 3 MINS READ Early in Smriti Ravindra’s debut novel, there is a scene where one of the key characters gets off the train at a platform on the Indo-Nepal border to buy a snack of puffed rice and piyaji. The Woman Who Climbed Trees By Smriti Ravindra HarperCollins India Pages: 432 Price: …

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Book Review: Manoj Rupda’s ‘I Named My Sister Silence’ provides sharp insights into the ground realities of Adivasi life

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Published : Oct 19, 2023 11:00 IST - 5 MINS READ Manoj Rupda’s 2018 Hindi novella, Kaale Adhyay, translated into English by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar under the title I Named My Sister Silence, is in the JCB Prize long-list. I Named My Sister Silence By Manoj Rupda, translated by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Eka Pages: 180 Price: Rs.499 We are introduced …

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BOOK EXCERPT | Why R.K. Narayan felt humiliated by Dev Anand’s adaptation of ‘The Guide’: Extract from Indradeep Bhattacharyya’s ‘RK Narayan: The Compassionate Chronicler of Indian Life’

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On his birth anniversary on October 10, a sneak peek into the mind of Narayan through his recollection of the filming of Guide. Indradeep Bhattacharyya’s RK Narayan: The Compassionate Chronicler of Indian Life presents the behind-the-scenes story of Narayan’s becoming a writer, and narrates the circumstances of his life that shaped his vision—the defining quality of which is compassion. Narayan …

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Independence Day 2023 How do some of the earliest books on India describe the land, its people and culture?

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For three years now, I’ve been regularly visiting a special corner of the Internet — the digital library of former Attorney General K.K. Haridwar “A fair takes place annually at Hurdwar in the month of April, lasting nearly a fortnight, that being the period chosen by the pilgrims, who flock from all parts of India, to perform their ablutions in …

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Book Review: ‘Magadh’ by Shrikant Verma is a thought-provoking collection of poems

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Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ Assume, for the sake of argument, that you live in a “flawed democracy” ruled by a behemoth of a political party which employs a person whose prime job is to create and spread propaganda on a daily basis. And yet, some 40 years ago when Shrikant Verma, Congress spokesperson, …

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The Hindu on Books | Reading ‘Yellowface’, Mike Brearley’s memoir, the rise and fall of Sidhu Moosewala and more

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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Books of the Week The story goes that as a young boy, when he left mud on the floor of the family home after evening games, his mother told him: “If you carry on like this, you’ll do nothing but play football and cricket all your life.” While Mike Brearley …

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A folk singer’s journey to promote the unifying ethos of mystic-poet Kabir

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Verse, when transformed to the form of a hymn, gains considerable power to move the mind and touch the soul, says Prahlad Singh Tipanya, folk singer, who is regarded as among the foremost voices of 15th century mystic poet Kabir. Tipanya, who was in the city recently to perform a series of bhajan sessions/satsangs at different settings, is a legatee …

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Book Review: ‘Rooh’ by Manav Kaul is about the writer's journey to his birth place, Kashmir

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Published : Jun 29, 2023 11:00 IST - 4 MINS READ In the words of the celebrated German writer Günter Grass, “homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss”. In this fascinating novel, Rooh, Manav Kaul undertakes a journey to his birth place in Kashmir in search of a sense of closure—a journey that occurs on three …

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Book Review: ‘Traces of Boots on Tongue’ by Rajkamal Chaudhary captures the essential apathy of modern India

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The Hindi and Maithili writer Rajkamal Chaudhary is at his best at capturing the essential apathy of modern India. 499 Translated by Saudamini Deo, Traces of Boots on Tongue, presents a selection of the Hindi short stories of Rajkamal Chaudhary, born in a traditional Maithili Brahman family in Bihar, named Manindra Narayan Choudhary, and known affectionately as Phool Babu. As …

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Interview: Srinath Perur – “Language carries associations of both pride and vulnerability”

Hindustan Times

I guess being part of the jury for a prize like this is one way of connecting, of sharing one’s sensibility with the world. He participated in the book launch when my translation of Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar from Kannada to English was published. When I read Girish’s description of the sets for the film Samskara in which he acted, …

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Prakriti Foundation to support translation and publication of K.K. Shailaja’s book in Tamil

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Chennai-based Prakriti Foundation will support the translation and publication of former Kerala health Minister K.K. While work is already on for a Malayalam translation, we want to support and take a Tamil translation to more readers,” said Ranvir Shah, Founder-Trustee, Prakriti Foundation. Published by Juggernaut, My Life as a Comrade by Ms Shailaja, with Manju Sara Rajan, is a memoir …

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Review of Ponneelan’s Black Soil translated by his granddaughter J. Priyadarshini

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The English translation of Tamil novel Karisal, titled Black Soil, has hit the stands at a time when it has almost slipped from the memory of Tamil readers. By translating her grandfather’s novel to English, J. Priyadarshini not only bridges a generational gap, but reminds readers of the valour and struggles of ordinary working-class people in a “rain-dependent landscape”. Another …

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Into the heart of the Himalayas

The Hindu

The essays in Mystics and Sceptics: In Search of Himalayan Masters, edited by Namita Gokhale, look at both the tyranny and beauty of life and bring alive the spiritual resonance of the Himalayas. However, let’s keep in mind that even in the realm of technology the magical changes in the material and virtual world would have required what you call …

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New on Shelves: 4 new books for your April TBR pile

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An Order from the Sky, by Imayam; translated by Vasantha Surya, HarperCollins India, 365 pages, Rs. Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India; by Douglas Ober, Navayana, 394 pages, Rs. I See The Face: A Novel; by Shahidul Zahir, translated by V. Ramaswamy, Penguin Random House India, 256 pages, Rs. India's Tipping Point: The View from …

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How Tamil writer Sivasankari knitted India’s diverse literature in four volumes

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When Sivasankari completed 25 years as a writer in 1993, at the age of 50, she had a large body of work to her credit, including novels, short stories, essays, interviews, travelogues, and biographies. “None of the writers in other states knew of the Thirukkural or the greatness of Subramania Bharati or other prominent Tamil writers,” she says, adding, “We …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi felicitates city authors

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi held its annual award ceremony and felicitated senior city authors of Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Sanskrit and English on Saturday The five authors who were felicitated by Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi during its annual award ceremony on Saturday. The award of recognition was given to Sushma Alankar, Jaspal Singh, M Shakeel Khan, Kumar Sharma ‘Anil’ and Gul Chauhan on …

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Review of Manoranjan Byapari’s The Nemesis, the second in his ‘Chandal Jibon’ trilogy: a story of hunger and politics

The Hindu

Rickshaw puller-turned author-turned politician Manoranjan Byapari’s writing teems with vivid descriptions of poverty, squalor, the helplessness of the poor and the working class, the precarity of being a refugee or a person displaced for political reasons, and the machinations of politicians. My introduction to Byapari’s writing came via Facebook some five or six years ago when translator Arunava Sinha would …

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A commentary on the birth of the Indian feminist movement: review of the novel Pankaja by activist Vasanth Kannabiran

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French feminist Simone de Beauvoir said, “All oppression creates a state of war.” Nowhere is this truer than in the case of gender, caste, and violence as we see in the novel Pankaja by activist and writer Vasanth Kannabiran. The novel is named after Panjaka, from whose life we learn of her mother, sister and relatives — a cohort of …

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