Authors Hemangini Dutta Majumder, Vasundhara Kashyap & Richa S. Mukherjee discuss crime fiction & reality at a session led by Payal Raman at 1st Jindal Literature Festival.
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.
The Pakistani writer chose English as her language of creative expression. ‘One can get away with writing in English what you can't writing in Urdu,’ she said.
A growing tribe of women screenwriters, through the female gaze, are creating nuanced characters that defy tropes and telling richer, more layered stories as a result.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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