Literary Trails
In this poetic dialogue with a marginalized present, Gandhi’s truth of ahimsa gets through to the unborn, holding out the promise of redemption. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
From K. Satchidanandan, songs of hope, verses of despair, and the faith of love like the light that gets in through the cracks of the gloating darkness.. Self-translated by the poet from Malayalam. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In this collection of poems, self-translated from Malayalam, K. Satchidanandan offers up a vision, dark yet one that lifts the fogs of illusion to show us the way we live…and die …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A.J. Thomas poet and former editor of Indian Literature of Sahitya Akademi introduces the reader to Assam’s well known poet Jiban Narah. Steeped in the culture of the Brahmaputra Valley Narah’s poetry is influenced by his Missing tribe identity but expands his poetic presence at the national level. …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
In this collection of poetry from across the multiple languages of South Asia in translation, Ashwani Kumar provides a context that is itself a meditation on poetry as liminal geography of human experience…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
During a stint at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, social anthropologist Smita Tewari Jassal held a variety of religious conversations in different contexts over six years seeking insights on how religious practices adapt to and accommodate with Turkey’s specific brand of secularism. Her focus? The headscarf, and a Turkish Islamic practice called sohbet. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Diving into the imaginary of poetry, the “interiors of alphabets” Ashwani Kumar searches for the character that could have written those mythic-realist poems about Banaras and the Other and discovers they are his heteronyms. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Never before has India witnessed such an “Organization of Hatreds” targeting minorities and the questioning, disobedient mind. Writers across languages and genres appeal for change. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In this poetic dialogue with a marginalized present, Gandhi’s truth of ahimsa gets through to the unborn, holding out the promise of redemption. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Pluralism is not a ritual of colourful masks for exhibition behind army tanks at Republic Day parades says K. Satchidanandan; it is as intrinsic and essential to India as its bio-diversity. …[Read More]…