Personal Notes
Sukrita Paul Kumar remembers her childhood in Africa through two short verses...[Read More]…
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]…
Bookshelf
A selection of four poems from Sukrita Paul Kumar’s latest collection, Vanishing Words that betoken the disappearance of words when verse transcends meaning and emerges as pure experience, lingering silence. Accompanied by her own artwork.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Krishna Sobti’s contribution to modern Hindi fiction is seminal with her works reflecting pulsating characters, each carving out her own destiny, mirroring the author’s own feisty autonomy. Sukrita Paul Kumar writes…[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]…
Bookshelf
In conversation with Sukrita Paul Kumar, Urdu and Hindi writers discuss their art, modernity/tradition, the critic and much more. Extracts of her conversations with Qurratulain Hyder and Nirmal Verma. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet, painter and literary critic Sukrita Paul Kumar draws on her experience of working with the homeless street children and natural-disaster victims to search for meaning in poetry and painting …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Curated by Alok Bhalla, for The Beacon, ‘Asians in Africa’ offers glimpses of a diasporic existence as seen by various writers; experiences that carried the promise of belonging and the prospect of loss and flight. …[Read More]…