With their carnival atmosphere, music and Bollywood stars, books often take a back seat. But that doesn’t mean writers and their works won’t make a lasting impression ...

Many non-Indians and even many Indians are not familiar with the scope, diversity, and breadth of India’s traditional and classical literature. Much of it is obscure due to a lack of accessible ...

Literature and literary scholarship from India, though sometimes unacknowledged, have been at the forefront of revitalising interest in the idea of ‘world literature’ — a field of study that stresses ...

The stunning poetry, prose, history and philosophy of classical Indian literature. Emerging in a huge new collection. We’ll dip in. The Hindu god Krishna and Gopis in the forest. (WikiCommons) Talk of ...

During India’s struggle for Independence, literature played a vital role in inspiring the masses and arousing a sense of patriotism. Many poets and writers took up their pens as weapons to challenge ...

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore made history as the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, a collection of his Bengali poems that he himself translated into English. Yet, ...

Nothing ever really dies in India. That which is old is perennially revived and recast as the new. In the domain of literature, ancient texts and tropes were never forgotten; they were simply ...

A book that undertakes to interpret a variety of literature produced in Indian languages after 1947 with a wide enough sweep to negate Salman Rushdie’s old claim that prose writing in English by ...

Indian Literature, Mar-Apr 2024, issue no. 340; the bi-monthly journal of Sahitya Akademi, the National Akademi of Letters, is a pathbreaking issue in the sense that for the first time in the annals ...