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ISMAT CHUGHTAI
Communal Violence and Literature
08 Mar 2020
An irreplaceable part of the Progressive Writers' Association, along with other litterateurs like Saadat Hasan Manto and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Chughtai is considered to have trailed a new blaze in the…
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
“Kisī kē bāp kā Hindōstān thōdi hai”: Rāhat Indōrī
01 Mar 2020
Banners welcomed people to a ‘National Heritage’ mushā’irah (poetic symposium) organized by the Urdu Academy under the auspices of the Delhi government.
PTI
Controversy Over Male Nudity in Malayalam Play Staged in Theatre Festival
28 Feb 2020
NSD issues notice to award-winning director Suveeran. Writer Paul Zacharia and former Kerala Culture Minister M A Baby back him.
Yogesh Maitreya
‘Mother’ Resurrects Lost Humanity in Nagraj Manjule’s Poems
28 Feb 2020
Breaking the tradition of romance and grief in love poetry, Manjule forges a bond in words that teaches assertion and growth.
Rajinder Azad
Three Poems By Kamal Dev Pall
23 Feb 2020
That religion Is impartial to those who are discriminated Is less injurious than intoxicants Is more important than cattle food.
Gowhar Farooq and Irfan Dar
Madhosh Balhami: The Poet of Perseverance
20 Feb 2020
On 15 March 2018, Kashmiri poet Ghulam Mohammad Bhat (Madhosh Balhami), lost his ancestral house and thirty years of poetry to a fire that broke out during a gun battle between Indian soldiers and…
Pankhuri Zaheer
Festival Diary: What Gandhi Would Have Told Asifa
18 Feb 2020
Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2020 gets real with plays themed on mob-lynching, gender, caste and some street theatre.
Yogesh Maitreya
The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience
16 Feb 2020
In the name of Bollywood songs and indie-pop, the dalit-bahujan listeners have been fed with ideas and tastes of the anti-dalit/bahujan imagination of brahmanism.
Medha Singh
To Translate is To Love Again: Sayed Haider Raza’s Love Letters
13 Feb 2020
Raza expresses his range of feelings wholeheartedly in his letters, clearly intentioned, giving one a sense of confidence about the work that they were doing.
Rashme Sehgal
Our Institutes Are Cowering Because Retribution Is Fast and Furious: Mallika Sarabhai
06 Feb 2020
The National Institute of Design (NID) called off its convocation, in which dancer and choreographer Mallika Sarabhai was supposed to deliver the key address. Sarabhai speaks out here in an interview…