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It is my language that has chosen me: Damodar Mauzo

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Damodar Mauzo's first library was two books, brought home by his father when typhoid confined him to bed as a boy. They were children's versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabhar... Read More


'She was a woman almost without fear'

India, Sept. 12 -- 1Why has Begam Hazrat Mahal remained such a shadowy figure, despite her courageous resistance to British forces? One reason is that for years after the Uprising, its history was tol... Read More


Maya Sharma: "TV newsrooms are staffed by people from privileged backgrounds"

India, Aug. 31 -- Over the three decades of your career, TV news has shifted from bulletin-style reporting to high-decibel, opinion-led programming. How has this eroded public trust in television news... Read More


It was the multidimensional tragedy that I wished to portray: Mitra Phukan

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Conflict, in its many forms, is at the core of the fiction of Mitra Phukan, the award-winning Assamese writer, translator, and columnist. A trained Shastriya Sangeet vocalist, sh... Read More


Small towns have turned into a boutique sub-mode for writers and filmmakers: Neelum Saran Gour

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Neelum Saran Gour is the author of seven novels, four short-story collections, two books of non-fiction, a Hindi translation of one of her own novels, and a critical study of Raja... Read More


We use some of the old stories as seed, and those seeds tell their own stories: Easterine Kire

New Delhi, July 26 -- Easterine Kire is an award-winning Naga poet, short story writer and novelist. She is known for pioneering written Naga literature in English, forging a bridge between the oral t... Read More


Aditya Bhushan: "Women's cricket in India mirrors broader social change"

India, July 16 -- You write about passionate individuals such as Aloo Bamjee in Bombay and Mahendra Kumar Sharma in Lucknow, who were instrumental in popularising the game across the country. During y... Read More


From traders to interpreters

New Delhi, July 13 -- One of the overlooked histories of modern migration is that of Goans to Zanzibar, a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. Although it is not clear when the migratio... Read More


My poems emerge from the tension between personal experience and collective trauma: Robin S. Ngangom

New Delhi, July 12 -- Robin S. Ngangom writes in English and Manipuri and has spent much of his life shuttling between the two. Born in Imphal, he studied literature at St. Edmund's College, Shillong,... Read More