In Delhi’s India International Centre, the CD Deshmukh Auditorium was packed with professors, writers and students who came to experience the performative reading of his three books.
The magazine was a product of its time—when newsprint was cheap, imagination was free, and the hunger for suspense could drive circulation numbers into the tens of thousands.
A young poet spoke up about being sexually harassed by a senior writer at Nayi Dhara's residency programme in Patna. Now Hindi literary world is confronting a long-ignored rot.
Nayi Dhara reigned in the era of Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Nirala. It’s now creating a new niche for Hindi literature online, as well as through writers’ residencies and events.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
In this entire article, the story writer Gyanranjan and the ‘Pahal’ published under his editorship were forgotten.
It’s good to know that Hindi has a literature. Hope it has poetry too.