literature
Staying Alive
TP Sreenivasan
With all the challenges living, survival is an unrivalled measure of success
Larry McMurtry (1936-2021): Book Rancher
The novelist and screenwriter explored the myths and legacies of the American West
How Chingiz Aitmatov found solace, inspiration in India
The legendary author from Kyrgyzstan wrote both in Russian and his local language
A Telugu ‘Mahakavi’ and his second motherland
Sri Sri (Srirangam Srinivasa Rao) loved the Russia of Lenin and Mayakovsky. The Telugu poet’s work also found its to way to prestigious Soviet publications
How Chekhov’s works influenced 20th century Hindi literature
Giants of Hindi literature such as Munshi Premchand, Rajendra Yadav and Banarasidas Chaturvedi were enamoured of the works of the Russian playwright and short-story writer
Unfree Verse
What a $1 million grant for social justice poetry says about the dangers to creativity today
The Sword And The Stylus
The Baburnama, one of the greatest memoirs in any language and of any age, is a testament to humanity in which the personal becomes universal
Why Love What You Will Lose?
The new Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetry is infused with desire and trauma, the processes of ordeal and healing
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