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…
Read Full ArticleIt 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…
Read Full ArticleIt 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…
Read Full ArticleThe 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…
Read Full ArticleIt 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…
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…
Read Full ArticleThey 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…
Read Full ArticleTwo 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…
Read Full ArticleArshia 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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