Indian literatures

Rurality and mobility are polarities within registers of logic that animate the new worlds of both women. Our protagonist wishes to retain both in the hope of dwelling perpetually in her personal landscape of myths as she journeys through myriad worlds. 

We have been aware for centuries that we are responsible for the earth’s denudation: its ‘cold staring spaces’, as English…

In the last decade, the forces of resurgent fundamentalism and divisive communalism have made life increasingly difficult for many Indian writers, especially those working in regional languages. A growing cohort of writers are returning their awards to the prestigious Sahitya Akademy, the National Academy of Letters, in the face of its silence on sustained assaults on freedom of literary expression. Mridula Nath Chakraborty on culture wars in India.

The 48-year-old Tamil language writer from India, Perumal Murugan, could never have imagined that he would have to draw an end to his literary career with a public announcement to the effect that the writer in him had died… Murugan wrote six novels, four collections of short stories, and four of poetry, before abruptly declaring himself dead as a writer.