‘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

· Jun 23, 2019 · 12:30 pm

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

· May 12, 2019 · 07:30 am

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

· Apr 28, 2019 · 08:30 am

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

· Mar 24, 2019 · 07:00 am

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

· Mar 10, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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

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Philippe Charlier

· Mar 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

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

· Dec 10, 2017 · 06:30 pm

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

· Jan 09, 2016 · 02:30 pm

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

· Dec 13, 2015 · 11:30 am