Letters to Joanne Nilesh Mondal is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Power Engineering. When he's not overwhelmed by the...
Month: October 2016
If you care to look a little beyond the famous mangroves that decorate Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, there lies a...
The National Book Foundation in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, has dedicated a division to Persian books. The division...
Those with an academic interest in Chinese literature are undoubtedly aware of the CT Hsia classic History of Modern Chinese...
The Man Booker Prize is considered to be one of the most-coveted literary awards for British and post-colonial novels (from...
Come November, over 130 celebrated writers and thinkers from some 30 countries will converge at Mumbai’s biggest international literary festival,...
Indian literature, like India, is a combo. There are many Indian literatures. The Sahitya Akademi has 24 languages listed for...
Ramananda Chatterjee was arguably the most influential Indian editor in the last few decades of colonial rule. He began publishing...
Unlike his Malaysian-Chinese compatriots, Tash Aw and Tan Twan Eng who have become well-known for novels which fit pretty squarely...
Prize-winning Indonesian novelist Eka Kurniawan isn't for the squeamish. Freighted with semen, menstrual blood, excrement and urine, his tour-de-force, “Beauty...
