Tag: Literature
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10 day long Jaipur Lit Fest to be held from 28 January to 6 February
Set to return in a hybrid avatar, this year, the festival will host over 250 speakers, writers, thinkers, politicians, journalists and popular cultural icons from across a vast array of nationalities, representing 21 Indian and international languages.
December 21, 2021 -
3-day Bengali literary festival to commence on Dec 10
The commencement of India’s first literary festival, Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsav (ABSU) curated by Oxford Bookstores is on 10th December 2021.
December 10, 2021 -
Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards for 2021 announced
The Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards for 2021 were announced at the finale of the festival which was held online from November 18 to 21.
November 25, 2021 -
O Tempora! O Mores!
The academic committee of the English Department of Delhi University has decided to remove three texts written by the Dalit writers Bama Faustina Soosairaj and Sukirtharani as well as a text by the Brahmin writer Mahasweta Devi
August 29, 2021 -
Bookshelf: Books that spotlight children’s mental health
Here's a list of books that address the various emotions children struggle with, and can be companions to them during the hard times.
October 28, 2020 -
A quarter century on, Raja Rao’s biography of the Mahatma retains its freshness
With an emphasis on the idea of dharma as a framework for Gandhism, both in South Africa and India, this is the story of the man as much as the Mahatma.
October 2, 2020 -
6 women among 10 authors in Rs 25L JCB Lit Prize longlist
With four debut novels and two translations making it to the longlist, the socio-political divide across history -- present, and future -- are prominent in all the novels.
September 2, 2020 -
Literature and Pandemics
What makes pandemics similar across geographic locations and time is not the presence of germs and viruses but that the human response follows the same pattern. All three literary works inform us that the initial human response to the outbreak is typically one of denial. Furthermore, our response to a pandemic tends to be slow and the authorities often provide false numbers about the infected cases and deaths
July 31, 2020 -
Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes after sexual harassment scandal
Some of the names attracting the buzz are, poet Anne Carson and novelist Margaret Atwood, as well as Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk, French Guadeloupean Maryse Conde, South Korean writer Han Kang.
October 10, 2019 -
Sahitya Akademi awardee, Kiran Nagarkar dies at 77
Among his most known works are Saat Sakkam Trechalis, Ravan and Eddie and the epic English novel Cuckold, for which he was honoured with the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award.
September 6, 2019 -
The archaeology of literature
This is a meticulously well-researched book by a historian and ethnomusicologist that will be appreciated by researchers and faculty members of colonial studies and cultural studies as it showcases the contributions of Dwijendralal Roy as a colonial subject as well as a man of letters, a songwriter, a poet and a music composer par excellence... A review
July 16, 2019 -
Kalinga literary festival to recall Gandhi’s ‘idea of India’
Among other highlights will be the story-telling session "Dastan-E-Mantoiyat" by Syed Shadab Hussain and Meera Rizvi and the screening of Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar's "No Fathers In Kashmir".
July 2, 2019 -
Interview | Literature can’t be held hostage to time: Sanjib Chattopadhyay
In an interview to Dipankar Chakraborty, renowned Bengali writer Sanjib Chattopadhyay, famous for his satire and humour, spoke about his foray into the world of literature and his journey as an author.
March 9, 2019 -
Rabindranath Tagore: Echoes of erudite thoughts
Polymath Rabindranath Tagore's wisdom teaches us about how we need to consider the larger picture for India's progress.
December 14, 2018 -
On her 99th birthday, associate recounts Amrita Pritam’s lost love for literature
"She was such a brilliant litterateur all her life. However, she seemed to have lost this love for literature few years before she died," Pritam's close associate and veteran poet Amia Kunwar said at a literary meet here.
September 2, 2018 -
‘My first love is literature’
He writes in Urdu, also thinks in Urdu, although his mother-tongue is Punjabi. A tete-a-tete with iconic film maker and lyricist Gulzar reveals much about the notoriously interview-shy writer.
May 12, 2018 -
Amid sexual abuse allegations, academy cancels 2018 Nobel Prize in literature
The Nobel Foundation presumes that the Swedish Academy will now put all its efforts into the task of restoring its credibility as a prize-awarding institution.
May 4, 2018