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Saudamini Deo
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The mystery of Snowa Borno: A Finnish woman who writes in Hindi, or a male writer’s nom de plume?
No one has seen or met Snowa Borno, and she isn’t interested in being in the public sphere despite her literary success.
Saudamini Deo
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Rajkamal Chaudhary’s short stories give glimpses into newly independent India and its weariness
An excerpt from ‘Traces of Boots on Tongue and Other Stories’, by Rajkamal Chaudhary. Translated from the Hindi by Saudamini Deo.
Rajkamal Chaudhary & Saudamini Deo
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‘Ugra’: The Hindi writer whose provocative, satirical works had made him more popular than Premchand
The fifth in a series on Hindi writers who were famous in their day but have slipped out of public attention now.
Saudamini Deo
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Salman Rushdie’s new memoir un-wounds the ‘knife’ of language
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Reading Gorakh Pandey, the people’s poet who rebelled against his feudal roots
The fourth in a series on Hindi writers who were famous in their day but have slipped out of public attention now.
Saudamini Deo
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Dineshnandini: The writer who lost more from love and life than she gained from literature
The third in a series on Hindi writers who were famous in their day but have slipped out of public attention now.
Saudamini Deo
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Revisiting the works of Rajkamal Chowdhary, the writer whom Hindi literature could never categorise
The second of a series on Hindi writers who were famous in their day but have slipped out of public attention now.
Saudamini Deo
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Re-reading Bhuvaneshwar, the absurdist Hindi writer who lived in railway stations and trains
The first of a series on Hindi writers who were famous in their day but have slipped out of public attention now.
Saudamini Deo
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A brief journey through India as seen by the French poetic imagination of the 19th century
From Stephane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire to Paul Verlaine, they all wrote about India.
Saudamini Deo & Philippe Charlier
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There’s a reason many more Indians might want to read the works of Clarice Lispector
Born on this day, December 10, in 1920, the Brazilian writer believed in mysticism over reason.
Saudamini Deo
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Six brilliant women writers from around the world who aren’t published by big name presses
Like these writers, these independent publishers, too, push the envelope on experimentation.
Saudamini Deo
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Why isn’t Hindi poetry being translated into other languages, including English?
The need for translation is both political and poetic, as political as it is poetic.
Saudamini Deo