Hindi Belt

The younger son of Munshi Premchand, Amrit was an important writer, translator and biographer in his own right It is a sad truth that the sprawling North Indian region that entertains delusions of replacing English with Hindi in every…

Conservative male perspectives have dominated Hindi literary criticism and historiography Although renowned Sanskritist Michael Witzel questions the widely accepted belief that there were nearly 30 women rishis (seers) who composed…

Translation is the only way to build bridges between different languages and literatures Although poetry is essentially untranslatable, there is no option but to read poetry written in unfamiliar languages in translation. Pablo Neruda,…

As poet Ashok Vajpeyi says, ‘Raza was always in love, with the world, with colours, with art, with poetry, with friends’ “I greeted the sun and asked it to smile at you.”This is not a line from Pablo Neruda’s love poems but from a love…