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Essay: The library as a safe space

India, April 23 -- Among the growing number of literature festivals in India, the Bengaluru-based Neev Literature Festival stands out for honouring the vital role that school librarians play in nurtur... Read More


Yaroslav Trofimov: "I'm a Soviet melting pot"

India, April 19 -- How did your training as a journalist help you write Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence, and the novel, No Country for Love Paying atte... Read More


'I am a Soviet melting pot'

India, April 19 -- 1Tell us about your grandmother, and what it was like to be her grandson. It was great to be her grandson. My grandmother was a teacher of literature. She had a huge influence on m... Read More


Kiran Bir Sethi: "Every child is born with extraordinary abilities"

India, April 14 -- The title of your book sounds empowering. How did you end up believing so strongly in each child's potential? My belief in the incredible potential of every child truly began when ... Read More


Report: Jaipur BookMark 2025

India, April 8 -- It might seem like authors are being modest when they attribute their book's success to an army of people working behind the scenes. Actually, they are just stating the truth. There ... Read More


Michael Hofmann: "Nothing is forever"

India, April 4 -- What were the aesthetic, political and emotional reasons that made you translate Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Kairos from German to English? I was asked for by the author. That counts fo... Read More


Report: Jaigarh Heritage Festival

India, March 27 -- With its finely curated mix of history, art, music, storytelling, puppetry and food, the inaugural edition of the Jaigarh Heritage Festival had a little bit of everything. Like a de... Read More


Deepa Bhasthi: "I am instinctive as a translator"

India, March 18 -- Banu Mushtaq has been writing for over three decades. When you decided to translate her work from Kannada into English, how did you zero in on the current set of stories in the coll... Read More


Banu Mushtaq: "My feminism seeps into the language that I use

India, March 17 -- You have been writing and publishing Kannada short stories for over three decades but much of the world has woken up and discovered your work only after Heart Lamp was longlisted fo... Read More


Report: Ami Arts Festival

India, March 13 -- The Kolkata Centre for Creativity's Ami Arts Festival, which ran from November 21 to December 22, 2024, contributed to the lively energy of the city at that time of the year. Ami is... Read More