Bookshelf
In this conversation with Sukrita Paul Kumar, Jeelani Bano offers an insight into the impulses that drive her fiction, her journey towards her vocation, the emptiness of the ‘award culture’……[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Alok Bhalla, translator-poet’s brief and poignant salutation to life and its infinite possibilities to be sought and savoured. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In this metaphysical spin on a father’s sense of loss poet-translator Asif Raza expresses an anguish that reflects the fragile rootedness of our lives …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
The story of female sexuality by Ismat Chugtai written in 1942, that won her an obscenity trial in which she stood by her story, refused to apologise and had it dismissed. Told from the viewpoint of a young girl …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Ismat Chugtai recounts her run-in with the law and the obscenity trial in a Lahore court alongside Manto, with playful courage, conviction and trepidation at what she had wrought …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Born into a Mahar Dalit family, Kumud Pawde finds her vocation as a Sanskrit scholar and writer in the intersectional byways of gender, caste and their subaltern ambiguities.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Women writers have to become sensitive to the new terror of fundamentalism and the oppression of the lower castes, landless labourers, dalits and the starving millions, if we are not to be party to this crime, warns Ajeet Cour .…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
As a “young educated tribal woman,” Disha Wadekar finds ‘Womanism’ a more inclusive concept than Feminism for the women of diverse marginalized sections of Indian society …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Of this exquisite meditation by Krishna Sobti on her mother, translator-poet Alok Bhalla says it is revelatory of her own personal integrity and of the stoicism she admired in her women characters. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
For Mahasweta Devi dreams are a fundamental right often denied us; they help us survive this nightmare-India with its sham freedoms and manufactured histories. Her speech at the 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair still resonates. …[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
On International Women’s Day a salute to women at work, discovering a new sky. …[Read More]…