Woman IPS officer accuses a top Tamil Nadu police official of sexual harassment, Madras High Court takes suo motu notice
Mamata throws a challenge to Suvendu Adhikari, announces her decision to contest from his bastion of Nandigram; Trinamool candidates list out
After Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena backs Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation sets aside Rs.1,400 crore for the rejuvenation of Mumbai’s rivers
The Goa Foundation says a new proposal of the Ministry of Mines infringes on the rights of State governments and would lead to the sale of mines at below-market prices
Tamil Nadu government bans registration of land within 5km radius of Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam
Jitendra Tiwari, Trinamool MLA and former Mayor of Asansol, joins BJP on a day when ECI notifies first of eight-phase Assembly election
An international online symposium of university teachers calls for the creation of a forum to address the major disruption in academics caused by COVID-19 pandemic
Influential Bengal cleric Abbas Siddiqui takes the stage at Left-Congress Kolkata rally, announces support of his ISF to Left Front in election
Mamata Banerjee slams EC for eight phase election in West Bengal and asks if the schedule was made on orders of Modi and Shah
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Critiquing nationalism The last sun of the century sets amidst the blood-red colours of the West and the ...
Squeezing the olives LIFE in prison has inspired or provoked writers throughout the world to think of the ...
The power of the myth THE term “myth” is not used here exclusively or chiefly in the extended sense in which ...
Through my window Shared traumas THE oldest surviving collections of Sinhala poetry in Sri Lanka date back to the 12th ...
The politics of rereading REREADINGS and counter-readings are a way of retrieving texts and making them available to ...
Through my window Dilemmas of Indian literary criticism TRADITIONAL Indian poetics is in a crisis today. Its categories are proving clearly ...
Through my window Inside, outside LESLIE STEPHEN’S famous statement that no one has ever written a dull autobiography is ...
Through my Window No end to hope DOES poetry make anything happen? W.H. Auden had once answered: no. And added: it is a way ...
Essay The poets and the feminist RAFIA ZAKARIA January 4, 2014, marks 47 years since Atiya Fyzee Rahamin's death and her bequest to the ...
Through my window Bombay meri jaan BOMBAY, which once Octavio Paz saw as a city “animated by vice and money”, filling him ...
Through my window Translating India IT is well known that India has a translating consciousness and we keep translating every ...
Shattering of gestalt MODERNISM in Indian literature emerged under different circumstances and at different ...
Column Geographies of imagination INDIA has a vibrant publishing scene, thanks to not only the big publishers but also a lot ...
Controversy Pride & prejudice A Dalit writer’s book about his caste group in Tamil Nadu evokes as much sharp criticism ...
Through my Window Premchand plus TWO works of fiction that I recently came across (I am sure there are others) have ...
The plural and the singular K. SATCHIDANANDAN With 184 mother tongues, 25 writing systems, and several traditions of oral and written ...
Ethics matter Vikram Kapur It was his unwavering devotion to his craft that won Yeats a place in literary ...
Literature ‘Socialist realism is still relevant’ S. Dorairaj ALMOST four decades have rolled by since Zvelebil, the renowned Czech Tamil scholar, made ...
Painter of secrets ANUPAMA RAJU A writer is a like a magician, says Ben Okri, keeping you enchanted with his craft.
Poet of the past, present and future WILLIAM RADICE Meghnadbadh kabya makes the imaginative worlds of the great epic poets, and the ...
The Asian other KEN WALIBORA WALIAULA East African literature has elected not only to celebrate but condone the cultural ...
Faultlines of Hindi and Urdu SANJAY KUMAR One example of the huge wall conventional literary history has erected between ...
Marx in Manto RAZA NAEEM Some of Mantos essays bring out his admiration for and sympathy with the ideas of ...
