literature
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Poet, novelist, and dramatist Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih wins the 2024 Shakti Bhatt Prize
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Persian prose meets pulp fiction: How an 18th-century fairy tale became a multilingual phenomenon
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammed Abdul Aleem
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For children: When games periods are cancelled, Petu and his friends unearth a sinister conspiracy
Arundhati Venkatesh
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For children: Muniya’s Abbu is not her father. He found her abandoned on a train. Who is her mother?
Mandira Shah
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A new book of classical Indian literature shows the connections between various literary traditions
Srinivas Reddy
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Sahitya Akademi awards: K Vaishali wins Yuva Puraskar, Nandini Sengupta wins Bal Sahitya Puraskar
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How literature and art can help us rethink our problems with sleep
Paul Huebener, The Conversation
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Interview: ‘Regional queer writing counters stereotype of queerness as a Western import’
Sharif Rangnekar
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‘For me, writing has become both the healing and the means to heal’
Uddipana Goswami
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Why some Indian language Dalit writers have to hide their caste in their works
Joel Lee K Satyanarayanan
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How the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky overcame his gambling addiction
Stephen Dobson, The Conversation
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‘We’re very different people’: Comedian imagines a conversation between Jane Austen and Emily Brontë
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For children: Mahi the elephant tries to fulfil his wish to fly without knowing the bigger dangers
Anand Neelakantan
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2023 Sahitya Akademi Award: Novelist Neelum Saran Gour’s ‘Requiem in Raga Janki’ wins in English
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How Kerala’s Kozhikode became India’s first UNESCO City of Literature
Diya Isha
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The mystery of Snowa Borno: A Finnish woman who writes in Hindi, or a male writer’s nom de plume?
Saudamini Deo
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Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Kundera: The heart as a vehicle of love and human goodness in literature
Vincent M Figueredo
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From Padmavati Devi Phukanani to Indira Goswami, women have revolutionised Assamese literature
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
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Italy’s far-right claim ‘The Lord of the Rings’ – but they’ve misread JRR Tolkien’s message
Tom Emanuel, The Conversation
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‘Fire Bird’, by Perumal Murugan, translated by Janani Kannan, wins the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature
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