“Create, Copyright and Disrupt”

23 04 , 2017 No Comments
23 April is celebrated as World Book and Copyright Day. According to UNESCO  “23 April is a symbolic date for world literature. It is on
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“The Accusation” by Bandi

18 04 , 2017 No Comments
  These stories of fiction written by a North Korean writer and published under a pseudonym were smuggled out of the country in 2013. (Some
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” Translating the ‘Panchatantra’ ” by Rohini Chowdhury

18 04 , 2017 No Comments
( Puffin India has recently released a new translation of Panchatantra translated from Sanskrity by well-known writer Rohini Chowdhury. Reproduced below with the author’s permission is her
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Dear Ijeawele”

12 04 , 2017 No Comments
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a slim little book which developed out of a letter she wrote to
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Teresa Rehman “The Mothers of Manipur: Twelve Women Who Made History”

12 04 , 2017 No Comments
On 15 July 2004, Imphal ( Manipur), twelve women strip in front of Kangla Fort, the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian
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Humayun’s Tomb: World Heritage Site by Aga Khan Trust for Culture

11 04 , 2017 No Comments
The incredibly beautiful Mughal monument, Humayun’s Tomb, was recently restored by the Aga Khan Trust. The project was carried out in partnership with the Archaeological
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Brian Van Reet “Spoils”

11 04 , 2017 No Comments
The war had turned for the worse — everyone knew that — but we didn’t know just how bad it would get. Like going over
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Michael Chabon “Moonglow”

23 03 , 2017 No Comments
Apart from so-called hard science fiction, which he read ( as with The Magic Mountain) for its artful packaging of big ideas, my grandfather regarded most
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Women In Publishing: Championing The Written Word

21 03 , 2017 No Comments
BusinessWorld magazine as part of Women Day celebrations did a special issue on Women ( 20 March 2017). Sanjitha Rao Chaini asked some of the
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Censorship, state and formation of literature

17 03 , 2017 No Comments
An extract from the New York Review of Books review by Timothy Garton Ash of Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature by Robert Darnton” ( 23 October
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