Indian Literature

Remembering Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal

By Ashutosh Potdar
February 21, 2022 | Ashutosh Potdar

Play Images: Umakant and Shriram Shirodkar A playwright in Pune, India, considers the contemporary relevance of the fifty-year-old cult play that remains one of the most written about and...
Gouranga

By Jitendra Nath Misra
August 12, 2021 | Jitendra Nath Misra

Rama Panda performing a Naga dance in Puri, Odisha State / Photo courtesy of the author “Gouranga has been diminished by fate,” writes Jitendra Nath Misra, “so let us give him a home.” In...
Poetic Points of Being in The Kolkata Cadence

By Dustin Pickering
June 9, 2021 | Dustin Pickering

Our society is increasingly global, and the era of Covid-19 is no different. We may forget our localities and the importance of community in consuming the news and internet media. One city, the domain...
The Tibetan Resistance Movement and Windhorse: In Conversation with Kaushik Barua

By Koushik Goswami
March 15, 2021 | Koushik Goswami

Born and brought up in Assam, Kaushik Barua is an emerging Indian English author. He completed his degree in economics from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, and then studied political economy at...
Well-Being over the Phone

By Mangalesh Dabral
February 3, 2021 | Mangalesh Dabral

Photo by Jes Timms / Unsplash for Vishnu Khare How to convey one’s well-being over the phone, It’s going all right, All that is there is good or nothing is good. The main thing to...
The Roar of the Wronged: Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger

By Yahia Lababidi
January 27, 2021 | Yahia Lababidi

A still image from the film White Tiger (Netflix, 2021). After watching White Tiger, a writer contemplates the film alongside revolution in Egypt, Black Lives Matter prot...
A Secret History of Compassion: The Double Debut of India’s Master of Short Fiction

January 30, 2020 | Thomas Palakeel

India’s Paul Zacharia, after five decades perfecting the art of the short story in the Malayalam language, spoken in the state of Kerala, has published his first novel, A Secret History of Compas...
The U.S. Poet Laureate’s “sudden poem,” libraries and Pokémon Go, and more

July 15, 2016 | WLT

Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re...
Book awards, women in translation, and more

November 20, 2015 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards winners were announced Wednesday night. The winners were Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry, a...
Banned books, new translation, and more

June 26, 2015 | Laura Hernandez

News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine featured a debate sure to spark interest in readers. The article asked whether or not it was acceptable to write in books as part of interacting wi...