Ep. 14: Jaipur and Japan with Anukrti Upadhyay
In the 14th episode of India Booked, author Anukrti Upadhyay takes us through the deserts of Rajasthan and the hot springs of Japan through her novel Kintsugi. In the same conversation, she connects contrasts betweenthe cultures of Jaipur and Japan and creates a delightful echo, all of her own. Anukrti Upadhyay is also the author […]
Kotrabaina Ramela
The epics have been a major influence across communities and tribes in India. In the folk oral epics of Central India, especially in Chattisgarh and Western Odisha, we find many influences. Bansgeet (song of the bamboo) is one such folk-epic, which is common among the Gaur (milkmen) community of Kalahandi, Odisha. Bans, or the bamboo, is a […]
Short Story Thursday : August 2020
Short Story Thursday is a weekly series dedicated to highlighting the short-stories from Indian literature. In August, we focused on the theme of #WomenInTranslation. First up on our #ShortStoryThursday, was ‘Lihaaf’ (The Quilt). Originally written in Urdu by Ismat Chughtai, and translated by M. Asaduddin, ‘Lihaaf’ is one of the most powerful works not just of […]
In Conversation With: Malay Chatterjee
Malay Chatterjee has been a professor at Delhi’s School of Planning and Architecture. Chatterjee’s many academic/non-fiction publications have covered complex issues concerning architectural conservation and heritage management. He is considered an authority on the planning and design history of New Delhi. You have had a prolific career as an academic and have been deeply involved […]
Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay
Not all vessels are meant to hold water, some are for allowing water to seep away. Haruko trailed a finger over the photograph, “Broken things are precious too.” What is Kintsugi? Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold and rightly the name was chosen for this book which talks about the […]
In Conversation With: Sowmya Vajjala
Sowmya Vajjala is a translator, notably for her work ‘The Sharp Knife of Memory’ from Telugu to English and has translated “Our Films, Their films” by Satyajit Ray into Telugu. Sowmya Vajjala has a PhD in Computational Linguistics from University of Tubingen, Germany. She currently works as a research officer at National Research Council, Canada’s […]
In Conversation With: Jahnavi Barua
Jahnavi Barua is an Indian writer based in Bangalore. Next Door (Penguin India, 2008), her debut collection of short stories was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her next, a novel called Rebirth (Penguin India, 2010), was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and theCommonwealth Writers’ Prize. The third, Undertow, a […]
Undertow by Jahnavi Barua
Undertow by Jahnavi Barua, a family saga spanning three generations, explores love, kinship ties with a mother-daughter relationship at its fulcrum and loss – of identity/belonging against the backdrop of volatile state politics in Assam. “Kinship ties were never felt more keenly than on days they were loosened or severed”. Plot Points First, the Exile […]
Ep. 13: Timeless Tales from Marwar with Vishes Kothari
For centuries, Rajasthan has been a gold mine of oral traditions and histories, with Padma Shri Vijaydan Detha being one of the foremost storytellers of all time. His stories, collected from the common folk of Rajasthan, mark an important intervention in 20th century Rajasthani literature. Giving a new lease of life to his writings, Timeless […]
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 […]
