What reading Kamla Bhasin taught a professor of English literature (and her students)

Poet, scholar and activist Kamla Bhasin died on September 25 at the age of 75.

Antara Datta

· Sep 28, 2021 · 08:30 am

Why those who believe in the ancient civilisations of South Asia must read Robert Calasso’s books

Writer, scholar and publisher Roberto Calasso died in Milan on July 28.

Sharmistha Mohanty

· Aug 15, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Because he did not stop for death’: Four poems for photographer Danish Siddiqui

A selection of poetry written for the photographer who was killed in Afghanistan, curated by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee.

Alolika Dutta

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Karan Kapoor

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Antara Rao

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Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

· Jul 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Ki Rajanarayanan (1923-2021): Tamil literature’s grey eminence was a pioneer of people’s stories

Ki Ra, as he was popularly known, was famous as the champion of ‘Black Soil’ literature.

Kavitha Muralidharan

· May 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘What he gave our city’: Ramchandra Guha on TS Shanbhag (1937-2021), the ‘Bookseller of Bangalore’

TS Shanbagh died of Covid-19 on May 4 at the age of 84.

Ramachandra Guha

· May 07, 2021 · 08:30 am

Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021): A poet who could not be compared with any of his contemporaries

Poet K Satchidandan re-reads Shankha Ghosh’s poetry in tribute.

K Satchidanandan

· Apr 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021): A bookseller who was a poet who was a publisher who was a writer

Ferlinghetti, who published the legendary Beat poets and founded the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco died on February 22 at the age of 101.

Sandip Roy

· Feb 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘I always found him reading’: A tribute to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi from younger brother NR Farooqi

‘He always preferred research and reasoning over blind acceptance of received wisdom.’

NR Farooqi

· Feb 21, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Three recollections of Sunil Kumar, the historian who stood tall against majoritarian politics

In his book ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate’, he argued that the sultanate was less a solid political entity than a fluid formation.

Rukun Advani

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Muzaffar Alam

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Nayanjot Lahiri

· Jan 24, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): All his life, he was essentially writing love poems

A tribute to the poet who died on December 9 after an attack of Covid-19.

Sarabjeet Garcha

· Dec 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature

The scholar, poet, novelist and translator, who wrote in Urdu and English, died on December 25, 2020 at the age of 85.

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Dec 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

Jayant Meghani (1938-2020): Remembering the meticulous bookseller of Bhavnagar

How a Gujarati bookstore in Bhavnagar achieved cult status thanks to its founder, who died on December 4, at the age of 82.

Murali Ranganathan

· Dec 19, 2020 · 12:30 pm