Hartosh Singh Bal
For all their posturing and weighty pretences, the Indian elite’s life of letters is still strangely beholden to the British
Writing about Peru, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, also writes about our reality
A visual depiction of events of the 1970s that makes this dark period seem more sinister than ever.
How will today’s children learn to live in their own world when all they read about are heroes who have magical powers to fight evil forces?
The Samsung Tagore Literature Awards, announced in New Delhi on 25 January, have sent shockwaves in the world of literature.
On his 2.5 acre plot of land, a Kerala jewellery shop owner has planted trees featured in the classics of literature
Don’t know how high-powered committees think, but some of these poets deserve the honour, surely.
How does a mediocre writer with recycled plotlines sell 600 million copies across the world?
In these times when success is determined by numbers, poetry is a marginal mode of communication. Perhaps what the poet should look for is the intensity of his readership, not its size