Poetry faces challenge of freedom: K. Satchidanandan

The Kuvempu Pratishtana has conferred 'Kuvempu Rashtriya' award, instituted this year, on Malayalam writer K Satchidanandan, at Kuppali in Tirthahalli taluk on Sunday. Legislative Council Chairperson D H Shankarmurthy and Primary and Secondary Education ...

The opening panel at the Indian Ocean Rim Association's poetry festival "Kya kavitaa hameshaa khoobsoorat ladki hai?" (Is a poem always a beautiful girl?) went an interrogatory posed by Kannada poet Siddhaling Pattanshetti, on the last day of the ...

If poetry, to recall Wordsworth , is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…emotions recollected in tranquility, and poets—the custodians of a race memory, archaeologists excavating mines of fine language, historians documenting what oft ...

Soka Gakkai International Gulf (SGI-Gulf) in partnership with the education cluster of Tecom, Dubai Knowledge Village and Dubai International Academic City, successfully hosted the third edition of The Poetic Heart: Connecting Humanity on Thursday. ...

A large number of visitors throng New Delhi World Book Fair Even on the week days, the enthusiasm of the book lovers has not diminished, especially the school children who are not only buying books but are also participating in the events being ...

A writer's job is to resist rules and not reaffirm cliches. Brazilian author, playwright and journalist, Bernardo Carvalho engaged in an enlightening discussion on Brazilian contemporary literature with Dr Sonya Gupta (PhD from JNU and currently ...

In a word The phrase best illustrated the world of meaning and possibilities embedded in that unit of language: the word. The tagline for The Hindu's Lit for Life 2014 "Beyond Words" only multiplied the potential. If at the end of the Delhi leg of ...

The Hindu Lit For Life held in New Delhi recently was a feast for the brain, made us think about all the aspects that we confront in our daily lives like politics, theatre, arts, mythology, and of course our city. The Hindu's Editor-in-Chief N.

The 2nd Delhi Literature Festival paid rich tributes to Rajendra Yadav and Safdar Hashmi. For those who could not make it to the much-talked-about Jaipur Literature Festival, there was ample to quench their thirst for literary discussions, at the recently ...