Literary Trails
Meena a dalit student who has realised her ambition to become a doctor in the face of bullying teachers is still afflicted with self-doubts.. By Dalpat Chauhan translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Among the poets that Miraji (1912-1949) translated with his freewheeling style and rhythms was e.e. cummings. Geeta Patel translates the Urdu modernist’s reading and offers a glimpse into his poetic visions…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
To Vidhya Sreenivasan poetry is a choreographed expression of the collective of memory, wishes, questions-anything that is born out of the conversations we have with the world around us.”…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Ashwin Desai offers up a slice of history of indentured Indians yearning to return to their home-South Africa, a century ago and riffs on what it means for their descendants in post-apartheid South Africa. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
How to explain the spiritual homelessness of the rooted, of one who has never left his home? Nirmal Verma on the consequent ‘loss of self’ and the place of literature in describing it. Translated by Alok Bhalla.…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Music from around the world that celebrates difference in musical expressions and the poetry of humankind against hate. …[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Like it was for the ancient philosophers in India, China and Greece, philosophy for Gandhi was a way of life not just the construction of theories, says K.P. Shankaran …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
The idea of a ‘new normal’ has been rife during the lockdown but one is puzzled about the newness of the normal. A question haunts us and Dev Nath Pathak asks it: what is normal about the so called new?…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
The pandemic has not socially distanced us; social media had already started our self- isolation and it will do so even more in this age of the emoji says Ashoak Upadhyay in this fourth part of the Lives We Lead series.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
An excerpt from her debut novel in which Bhaswati Ghosh chronicles how Partition’s victims, unwanted on either side of the border built their lives and shaped the socio-cultural landscape of Calcutta. …[Read More]…