Tagore

Chiranjeevi secures Guinness World Records as India’s most prolific actor

In Hyderabad on Sunday, megastar K Chiranjeevi was honoured with a Guinness World Records certificate for being the most prolific actor in the Indian film industry. During a special event, a representative from Guinness World Records presented Chiranjeevi with the prestigious recognition.

ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children

An interesting concern in contemporary children’s literature criticism is the discussion of power. Do the fictive children in children’s books, conceived and delivered by the adult author, have the ability to exercise their will and possess a voice?

Home is where my books are

How do you pack 25 years of your life in two suitcases?

Foraying into Tagore’s short stories

It is important to set unconventional examples at the time that they are written; Tagore’s work did this.

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Alternative routes

The book as a whole is a rigorously pursued exercise in the close reading of a fascinating and diverse array of modern texts that aren't quite in the category of the canonical mainstream.

OPINION / Are you what you read?

Few experiences in life can prepare us to be more sensitive, more inclusive, and generally kinder human beings than reading.

War and peace and poetry and poets

How can you talk about peace without taking into account war? Both are subjects not only of Tolstoy’s great novel but also of the two founding epic poems of Greek as well as Indian literature.

ESSAY / Ghosts in Bangla literature and culture

“Bhoot”, the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean ‘disembodied spirit.’ Ghost stories carry a special tradition in Bangla literature and the root lies in folklore and rural culture.

DHAKA LIT FEST 2023 HIGHLIGHTS / ‘Khandito Nazrul’: Why he is and should be relevant

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.

September 23, 2024
September 23, 2024

Chiranjeevi secures Guinness World Records as India’s most prolific actor

In Hyderabad on Sunday, megastar K Chiranjeevi was honoured with a Guinness World Records certificate for being the most prolific actor in the Indian film industry. During a special event, a representative from Guinness World Records presented Chiranjeevi with the prestigious recognition.

December 9, 2023
December 9, 2023

Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children

An interesting concern in contemporary children’s literature criticism is the discussion of power. Do the fictive children in children’s books, conceived and delivered by the adult author, have the ability to exercise their will and possess a voice?

July 13, 2023
July 13, 2023

Home is where my books are

How do you pack 25 years of your life in two suitcases?

May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023

Foraying into Tagore’s short stories

It is important to set unconventional examples at the time that they are written; Tagore’s work did this.

April 29, 2023
April 29, 2023

Alternative routes

The book as a whole is a rigorously pursued exercise in the close reading of a fascinating and diverse array of modern texts that aren't quite in the category of the canonical mainstream.

April 8, 2023
April 8, 2023

Are you what you read?

Few experiences in life can prepare us to be more sensitive, more inclusive, and generally kinder human beings than reading.

March 25, 2023
March 25, 2023

War and peace and poetry and poets

How can you talk about peace without taking into account war? Both are subjects not only of Tolstoy’s great novel but also of the two founding epic poems of Greek as well as Indian literature.

January 21, 2023
January 21, 2023

Ghosts in Bangla literature and culture

“Bhoot”, the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean ‘disembodied spirit.’ Ghost stories carry a special tradition in Bangla literature and the root lies in folklore and rural culture.

January 14, 2023
January 14, 2023

‘Khandito Nazrul’: Why he is and should be relevant

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.

November 17, 2022
November 17, 2022

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero

Nehru was revolted by Nazism and the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Bose…felt that the Indian struggle for freedom should override all other considerations.