Literature Around the World in 2015!

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2015: The Year in Literature 

There’s no denying it. It’s been a busy year in the world of literature, and it isn’t even over yet. The United States alone published…

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Tata Literature Live! MyStory 2015, Winning Entry: Smoke

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It was a sultry Kolkata afternoon right in the middle of my summer vacation. The heat had climbed to a

level that one might get a stroke just by poking…

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Beyond The Frame: Homesick

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It was a sultry Kolkata afternoon right in the middle of my summer vacation. The heat had climbed to a

level that one might get a stroke just by poking…

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Tata Literature Live! MyStory 2015, Winning Entry: Bone Deep

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The pyre smolders wetly

under the tin shed,

from which

grey

afternoon

rain

still

drips;

echoing

a family’s

grief.

sifting through

grandmother’s still-warm ashes,

my fingers taste

the wood-smoke and sour-milk scent

of funeral rites;

i blindly grope for the largest shards of bone,

to fill…

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Tata Literature Live! MyStory 2015, Winning Entry: The Sari

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It is not just worn at weddings, parties and ceremonies

It is also worn at a construction site
Amidst the cement, sand, gravel
Under the ruthless sun
Over a parched throat and blistered…

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Tata Literature Live! MyStory 2015, Winning Entry #1

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Revathy “Amma”, her voice goes as she strides barefoot towards the entrance door. The

inkling of her silver anklets still echoing in the silent dark room. Her forehead kissed with…

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Tata Literature Live! MyStory 2015, Winning Entry #2

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They looked down upon him. All of them. His favourite time of the day was when the Sun

stood behind him. He looked down then, at the ground, to see…

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The 6th Annual Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest

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Two venues: NCPA, Nariman Point and Prithvi Theatre, Juhu.

Germaine Greer, Vikram Seth, Kiran Nagarkar and over 120 celebrated writers and thinkers from across the worl.

Presenting seven literary awards.

Media registrations…

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TATA Literature Live! 2014 Q&A with Arshia Sattar

By Arshia Sattar

Arshia Sattar has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her translations of the Sanskrit texts Kathasaritsagara (1993) and Valmiki’s Ramayana (1996)…

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