by Keya Gupta Sarojini Naidu, known as Bharat Kokila or the Nightingale of India, was a poet, freedom fighter, and the first woman governor of an Indian state. Her lyrical poems captured India’s everyday beauty and culture, and earned her lasting fame. One of her most beautiful poems is ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’, which […]

The Poems of Savitribai Phule: Rage, Resistance, and Rebirth  – By Shree Sauparnika V More than a century before India declared itself a democracy, Savitribai Phule was laying its moral foundation—with chalk, slate and poetry. Known to most as India’s first woman teacher, she was also a radical poet who wielded words like weapons in […]

By Jayshree Misra Tripathi Bama Bama Faustina Soosairaj was born on 14 March 1958, in the village of W. Puthupathy in Tamil Nadu. Her father was in the Indian Army and her mother worked as a coolie. It was her mother, Bama says, who brought her up as a sensitive human being. Bama’s childhood had […]

By Meghana. L The 1947 partition of British India created two new countries: Pakistan and independent India. This event had severe consequences, culturally, socially, politically, as well as economically. It displaced about two crore people, of which around two to ten lakh people lost their lives. Several books have since been written that attempt to […]

Authors like Sharadindu Bandopadhyay and Satyajit Ray created immortal detective characters like Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda, who captured the attention of their readers for years. Here is the list of mystery writers who created some more memorable Indian fictional detectives and secured a unique place for themselves in the world of literature.    –By Srinidhi Murthy […]

Regional literature is an important part of the Indian literary tradition. Read about five such influential contemporary Kannada writers who have showcased their talent on a global level.

Ghazal is an age-old form of poetry popular in the South Asian subcontinent. Read about five iconic Ghazal writers who have left their mark on this art form.

Read about Ratnavali, a Sanskrit drama about Princess Ratnavali of Simhala,the work of a master playwright, the 7th-century poet-king Harshavardhana of Kanauj.