Tagore and the Mahabharata: The Stories Within the Story 

by Keya Gupta   Most of us know Rabindranath Tagore as the author of ‘Jana Gana Mana’, India’s national anthem, and as the poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, making him the first Asian to receive the honour. Tagore began writing poetry as a child and spent the next seven decades producing a massive body of work of over two thousand songs, hundreds of poems, novels, short stories, […]

Kunti, Gandhari, Draupadi: The Shapers of Destiny

by Shree Sauparnika V In the vast, tumultuous tapestry of the Mahabharata, the sound of clashing steel and the speeches of heroes often take centre stage. But if we look past the dust of the battlefield, we see that the epic’s foundation was laid not only by the warriors, but also by three powerful women. Kunti, Gandhari, and Draupadi were the true architects of the era, […]

An Introduction to the Hanuman Chalisa

by Shree Sauparnika V. and Sudhalekshmi M. The Hanuman Chalisa is a devotional hymn dedicated to Lord Hanuman, attributed to the 16th-century poet-saint Goswami Tulsidas. Composed during the Bhakti movement, the text remains one of the most widely recited liturgical works in India, particularly during the festival of Hanuman Jayanti, which falls today, on the full moon of the Hindu […]

Bharat Kokila, Sarojini Naidu

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 […]

Reading Phule Today

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 […]

Women Dalit Writers of Modern India

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 […]

Must-Read Books about the Partition of India

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 […]

Popular Mystery Writers of India

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 […]