Poetry faces challenge of freedom: K. Satchidanandan

The rise of small town India and strong political leaderships in various states over the past decade has long led to a fresh focus on the regional and subnational not as opposed to but as building blocks of the national identity. India speaks at ...

A group of over 100 eminent citizens today expressed concern over the possibility of Narendra Modi becoming the Prime Minister, saying his "infamous role" in the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 is being brushed aside to promote him as a ...

Famous poets Javed Akhtar (Urdu), Subodh Sarkar (Bengali) and Ambika Dutt (Rajasthani) were among the literary giants who were felicitated by the Sahitya Akademi at the ongoing annual "Festival of Letters". Novelists Mridula Garg (Hindi), ...

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 ...

India's culture of translation dates back to pre-colonial times that had witnessed several kinds of literary translation, though our ancients may not claim to be doing so. This is perhaps natural to multilingual culture where poets (Kabir, Mira, ...

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 ...