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

John le Carré (1931-2020): The former agent who leaves us a literary legacy of spies

The legendary creator of Smiley died on Saturday at the age of 89.

Siddhartha Sarma

· Dec 15, 2020 · 08:30 am

On watching Soumitra Chattopadhyay play King Lear on stage

Theatreperson and publisher Naveen Kishore’s ‘film’ in words.

Naveen Kishore

· Nov 19, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why Tamil publisher Crea Ramakrishnan’s literary legacy will be long-lasting

The founder of the publishing company Cre-A, Ramakrishnan died on November 17 at the age of 75.

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Nov 19, 2020 · 08:30 am

Sri Lanka’s most famous children’s books author Sybil Wettasinghe dies at 92

Her works were widely read in her native Sri Lanka as well as in countries as far afield as Denmark and Japan.

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jul 05, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Gulzar Dehlvi (1926-2020) defended the metaphor of Urdu with the subtle weapon of his poetry

Pandit Anand Mohan Zutshi, known as Gulzar Dehlvi, died on June 12 at the age of 93.

Rizwan Ahmad

· Jun 14, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Goodbye Asif Farrukhi (1959-2020): Writer, translator, editor, and lover of fine literature

A tribute to one of Pakistan’s most affable literary figures.

Saif Mahmood

· Jun 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm