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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicHindi literature

Topic: Hindi literature

Who’s the Chetan Bhagat of Hindi fiction? New wave of celebrity writers, punchy plots, Reels

Divya Prakash Dubey to Nilotpal Mrinal, Hindi writers are connecting with a new generation via themes like aspiration, love, and travel, and turning social media users into readers.

Aai Larki to Mitro—Krishna Sobti’s female characters weren’t ahead of time. They were real

Poets, authors, and historians commemorated Krishna Sobti’s 100th birth anniversary at the IIC event titled ‘Shabdo Ke Alok Mein’ in New Delhi.

Harry Potter sealed the defeat of Hindi books for children. But a new ‘pitara’ looks promising

Sooner or later, our English-speaking elite will realise that they don’t want their children to be poor cousins of American brats.

‘He took language to level of art’ — Vinod Kumar Shukla’s PEN/Nabokov award seen as fillip for Hindi

Shukla's award comes close on the heels of the International Man Booker Prize won by Tomb of Sand, the English translation of Geetanjali Shree's Reit Samadhi, last year.

Sudama Pandey ‘Dhoomil’—angry young man who became poet of the masses

A progressive writer known for his ‘protest poetry’, he blamed Indian politicians for promoting and fostering divisiveness.

Agyeya wanted to publish a Nehru-at-60 journal. Indian and global writers told him this

In ‘Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many lives of Agyeya’, Akshaya Mukul talks about Agyeya, the pioneer of experimentalism in modern Hindi literature.

Dinesh Nandini Dalmia — Nehru’s ‘mysterious one’, a Hindi writer and a feminist icon

When Dinesh Nandini and Nehru met, he was keen to write her a letter of recommendation to Maulana Azad to help her kick start her career in politics.

Can the Hindi novel keep up with social media? Its new readers are signalling a revival

Critics must drop their haughtiness to accommodate new writers ushering in a new era where readers play judge, jury and executioner on social media.

Hindi Dalit literature has a gaping hole – satire

Writing tragedy makes the writer more responsible; writing satire makes the system cautious. 

Uttar Pradesh had a thriving literary culture in the 1980s, but proximity to Delhi killed it

Uttar Pradesh's proximity to New Delhi and the elevation of Hindi as an official language killed its literary culture but the sun is yet to set on its revival.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.