7 Must-Read Translated Gujarati Fiction for your TBR
For a multilingual country such as ours, translation is as much a political act as a cultural one; in reading about the different cultures and peoples each language encompasses, we invariably find our shared nationhood. As Gujarati author, poet and professor Panna Trivedi said in an earlier interview, “Each community (and) culture has its own […]
Literary awards from 2020: A List
The Indian literary canon has a plethora of titles from across regions, cultures and languages and since we are always on a hunt of books from different states, literary awards like the following make it slightly easier for us to tap on regional literature. Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 “The winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 is The […]
Ep. 30: The Story of India’s Most Popular Prayer with Venkatesh Parthasarthy
An appeal to the Lord to arise and save the world, the Venkatesa Suprabhatam is the first of four recitations that are sung together every morning in the Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirumala, where it was originally sung. Prativadi Bhayankaram Anna, who composed this prayer in the fifteenth century, was a saint, a poet and […]
unBlock Meetup 110 with Neil D’ Silva
unBlock, our meetup series to come together and write, just got a new avatar, and in keeping with #SpookySeason, it is horror-themed. In this, we are joined by India’s horror story maestro, screenwriter and tedX speaker Neil D’ Silva; and you can get a chance for personalized feedback from him! How? Read on. Upload using […]