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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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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Mumbai Police give clean chit to Ajit Pawar, his wife, nephew in alleged money-laundering case
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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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: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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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