Personal Notes
Geetanjali Shree, Hindi novelist and essayist, remembers Intizar Husain whose death anniversary falls on February 2nd as an affectionate friend with a disposition that helped him cross cultural boundaries in dialogic immersions. ..[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Jamaican writer Marlon James speaks with Shalini Puri at the Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai International Lit fest November 21 2021 on the dynamism and range of Caribbean and other postcolonial Englishes, the search that led to James’ current trilogy, the importance of myth, debates about cultural appropriation, and Marlon’s advice to writers. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Bhawani Prasad Mishra (1913-1985) was one of the finest Hindi poets of the last century. His verses have local color, are earthy, and have pace and jingle. That is what endears him to Yashoda Nandan Singh who translates two of them…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Canadian writer of Indo-Guyanese origin Cyril Dabydeen fuses myth, folk lore, memory, white and subaltern cultures in this call- of-the-wild tale set in Northern Ontario, Canada.…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Mayank Bhatt faces his first bad scan results after eighteen months of chemotherapy kept a fragile status quo. Navigating sombre thoughts about his treatment, he continues to explore love and relationships, friendship and forgetting, dates and deadlines...[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A heart-rending story of the impact of Nature’s fury on a village girl’s ambitions to do good by her folk in the flood –prone districts of western India. By Vishwas Patil. Translated from Marathi by Keerti Ramachandra.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Often drawing from Arabic and Persianate cultural traditions, poems by Shafiq Fatima Shera (1930-2012) abound in rich metaphors and textured imagery, the lexical as well as imaginative fabric of her poems tends towards an evident expansiveness. Translated from Urdu by Riyaz Latif.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Sukrita Paul Kumar introduces the reader to a forthcoming series on Indian writing, ‘Writer in Context’ she is co-editing with Chandana Dutta. The first two volumes, on Krishna Sobti and Joginder Paul respectively are out …[Read More]…