The wounds from the controversy and the violence are deep. Salman Rushdie is a powerful reminder of the dangers of speaking out against authority and
Lorca's life was fraught with personal and political struggles. He came out as gay during a period when this was strongly frowned upon. He was
His work was deeply rooted in Marxist ideology, as he declared, "The ideological base of my work is fundamentally Marxism."
Born in Dina (now in Pakistan) a part of Jhelum district in 1934, Gulzar imbibed his love for Urdu and poetry from his Urdu teacher
The concept of ‘homelessness’ described so lucidly by Ranjani Mazumdar her seminal essay does not apply to the “outsider” as interpreted in and through the
Dutt’s early childhood was spent within the cramped space of a small flat in Matunga in Bombay (now Mumbai). His father shifted from one job
Soumitra started writing poems in his late school days but seriously took to it once in college. Having the likes of Shakti Chattopadhyay and Sunil
Nabaneeta Dev Sen would have turned 83 today. Her granddaughter Hiyamon has penned a fitting intimate tribute to the great literateur in a few soulful
I was introduced to the character of James Bond 007, the suave spy in a sharply tailored dark suit, through the novel by English author
Anil Bera recounts an anecdote on how Kazi Nazrul Islam's poem connected him to a Turkish audience.
As many as 1200 Nazrul song compositions recorded and/composed by Nazrul between 1925 and 1950 have been restored by this young archivist.
Is Siddhartha a coward? Or is he an escapist? Or is he really a misfit who cannot fit in?
Buster Keaton, another very famous comedian went on record to say that during a talk with Chaplin after he had just made The Kid (1921)
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was born exactly 120 years ago in Kasur (now in Pakistan) on 2nd April 1902. His father Ali Baksh and
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, exactly six years before his demise.
