Ajay Kamalakaran
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
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
What a $1 million grant for social justice poetry says about the dangers to creativity today
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
The new Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetry is infused with desire and trauma, the processes of ordeal and healing
The autobiographical voice of America’s leading poet wins her the Nobel Prize
A swift tour of India’s memorable cultural trends in literature and movies
Several high-profile adaptations of literary fiction prove that big books can make for fine viewing