(On Bimal Roy’s 110thBirth Anniversary, Ratnottama Sengupta traces his enduring affair with books.) Bimal Roy (12 th July,1909 - 8th...
Mahasweta Devi
By Haimanti Dutta Ray People gathered at Oxford Bookstore, Kolkata, on the evening of the 3rd of May, disregarding...
At the end of the journey, the passenger asked Byapari if he would be interested in writing his story, giving...
By N. Kalyan Raman With the death of Ashokamitran on 23 March in Chennai, a unique chapter in the annals...
By Aruveetil Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma Five days of literature. The most read authors and poets. The most fascinating...
By Vikas Datta It was a tumultuous, even controversial, time for literature in 2016 with mixed reactions to the unexpected...
My classmate at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Saraswati Narayan, who went by the pet name Chachu, asked me, “Are you...
The controversy over a play based on Mahasweta Devi’s short story Draupadi, enacted at Central University of Haryana in Mahendragarh,...
Mahasweta Devi was a recipient of the Jnanpith and the Padma Vibhushan: The Indian Express Acclaimed writer and social activist...
After a raging row that forced Salman Rushdie to keep away last year, this year's Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off...
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