Literature and Languages

Rajesh Kumar and Nusrat Dastangoi (performers), Manish Tomer, Rajesh Kumar, Ankita Dubey (writers)

सुनी सुनाई (Suni Sunai)

The Hindi Historical Novel in Colonial North India: Rewr…

Rohan Chauhan

Dalit Plays in Gujarati: Writing Against a Language of V…

Abhimanyu Acharya

Videos

Creative Expressions in Bhakti

Visual and Material Arts Performing Arts Literature and Languages

Bhakti: The Spirit of Surrender

सुनी सुनाई 3:संत चोखामेला (Suni Sunai 3: 'Sant Chokhamela')

सुनी सुनाई 2: मेरी मदद करोगे? (Suni Sunai 2: 'Meri Madad Karoge?')

Image Galleries

Imagining the Divine: Temple Stories and Tevaram Hymns

Sriram Sabhapathy (photographer), Niharika Gupta (curation and captions), Piyush Kukrety (research assistance)

Dev Kumar Jhanjh

Image Gallery for Indian Epigraphy

Perumal Venkatesan

Stonehunters: The Epigraphic Quest for Bengaluru

Annie Rachel Royson

In Search of the Kristapurana: An Image Gallery

Articles

Meenakshi Vashisth

Poetic Echoes of Lucknow

A Persisting Love for Stories

Nidheesh MK

The Bid for UNESCO City of Literature

Anjana Premchand

Tracing Kozhikode’s Literary Heritage

Sruthin Lal

Raising Good Indians: What Early 20th century Hindi Children’s Journals Tried to Teach

Simran Agarwal

Mir Ja’far Zatalli: The ‘Nonsense’ Poet and Urdu’s First Satirist

Syed Mubin Zehra

Scientific Temper and Humanism: Rereading Nehru during the Pandemic

Anita Rampal

Urdu Poet and Satirist Akbar Allahabadi’s Scathing Reports of the Raj

Shreya Gupta

How Shakespeare Became Entrenched in 19th-Century Calcutta

Amiya P. Sen

How Krupabai Satthianadhan Pioneered Indian Feminist Writing in English

J. Devika

How Ghalib Mourned the ‘Loss of Delhi’ During the 1857 Revolt

Shreya Gupta

Away from Home, How Babur Versified his Pain of Exile and Homelessness

Shreya Gupta

Kuttykkunhu Thangkachi: Kerala’s First Female Playwright and Carnatic Music’s Composer

J. Devika

Performing Arts Literature and Languages People

Rohan Chauhan

Hindi Hitaishis: The Architects of the Early Historical Novel in Hindi

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel

Rohan Chauhan

How Vijaydan Detha 'Bijji' Celebrated the Timelessness of Rajasthani Folklore

Sanjay Purohit

Kaifi Azmi's Love Letter to Shaukat, Written in His Blood

Shaukat Kaifi

Krishna and Bhishma as Antagonists: Iconoclasm in Dalpat Chauhan’s Plays

Abhimanyu Acharya

Revisiting India’s Legacy of Education Policy Visions

Anita Rampal

Literature and Languages Histories Institutions

Anando Ghosh

Magadhasena’s Replies: Interplay of Maharshtri and Magadhi Prakrits in Manipaticharita

Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and the Mantra

Murali Sivaramakrishnan

वृन्दावनलाल वर्मा और मैत्रेयी पुष्पा के साहित्य में बुन्देलखण्ड के चित्रण में अंतर

अमिता चतुर्वेदी (Amita Chaturvedi)

Art N Soul: Scanning the Skies—Persian Astronomy Manuscripts

B.N. Goswamy

Art N Soul: Omar Khayyam’s Rubai’yat, Again

B.N. Goswamy

Art N Soul: Bhagavad Gita—Far More Than a Text

B.N. Goswamy

Art N Soul: Yet another Mughal Ramayana

B.N. Goswamy

Art N Soul: There is much to Know about Nizami, the Mystic, Epic Poet

B.N. Goswamy

Art N Soul: The Mysteries of Indian Trade in the Bower Manuscript

B.N. Goswamy

Memorial Inscriptions with Special Reference to Hero Stones

Malini Adiga

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

Sabarni Pramanik Nayak

Epigraphic Bearings on Defiance to and Deviance from Norms

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

Sayantani Pal

Image Inscriptions: What Can They Tell Us About Our Cultural History?

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

Shruti Chakraborty

The Indian Constitution: Not Just Any Piece of Paper

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

Bhavana Pankaj

Who was Mandodari? Not Just Ravana’s Wife

Donative Epigraphy in Ancient South Asia

Dr Matthew D. Milligan

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

Susmita Basu Majumdar

Literary Inscriptions: An Overview

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

Narayani Gupta

How Scotsman Patrick Geddes may have Started India’s Obsession with Vastu

Literature and Languages Histories People Built Spaces

Narayani Gupta

Lucknow isn’t Just Chikan and Kebabs; Sharar’s Essays Reveal its Spirit

Literature and Languages Histories People Built Spaces

Rituparna Das

With Pots and Pans: Material Culture of the Bengali Middle-Class Kitchen in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

प्रमुख राजस्थानी लोकगाथाओं के कथानक

डॉ सतपाल सिंह (Dr Satpal Singh)

गोगा गाथा अथवा ‘गोगाजी रौ झेड़ौ’ के मूल गेय पद एवं हिन्दी भावार्थ

डॉ सतपाल सिंह (Dr Satpal Singh)

How Toru Dutt pioneered Indian writing and poetry in English

Dr Sutapa Chaudhuri

Amrita Pritam, the First Modern Punjabi Poet

Nirupama Dutt

Remembering Qurratulain Hyder

Dr Fatima Rizvi

Chughtai to Qurratulain Hyder: ‘Come See the World beyond Persian Carpets’

Debojit Dutta

तुलसीदास: स्मृति, संघर्ष व प्रासंगिकता

Priti Tripathi

Where Ravana is Vishnu’s True Bhakta

Bhavana Pankaj

प्रेमचन्द और भारतीय सांस्कृतिक विरासत

Dr Priti Tripathi

Super Commando Dhruv: The Hero without Superpowers

Rahul Kumar

Vidyasagar: Shastras, Social Reform and Strategy

Amiya P. Sen

Remembering Iswarchandra Vidyasagar

Amiya P. Sen

Verses for a Home Foregone: Four Poets on Exile and Being Refugees

Manan Kapoor

Akshaya Mohanty: The Odia Ghazal Writer

Shyamanuja Das

Discovering Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay as a Popular Science Writer

Amiya P. Sen

Why Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam is One of the Most Controversial Translations Ever

Manan Kapoor

कबीर के काव्य में पर्यावरणीय चेतना / Depiction of Nature in Kabir's Poetry

Priti Tripathi

காளிதாசர் படைப்புகளில் உவமையணி

B. Uma

அலங்கார மரபில் காவியபிரகாசத்தின் இடமும் பாணினியோடு அது கொண்ட உறவும்

B. Uma

Girish Karnad as a Political Artist

H.S. Shivaprakash

In Pursuit of Irrationality: Allen Ginsberg in India

Manan Kapoor

The Extraordinary Life and Work of Akshay Kumar Dutta

Amiya P. Sen

Understanding Buddhism Through the Therigatha

Aparna Sanyal

Idyll and Ideology: An Overview of Soviet Literature for Children in Malayalam

Sajid A. Latheef

Children’s Magazines and Different Childhoods in Kerala

Noorunnida M.

Moulding a Modern Child: Eureka and the Propagation of Science in Kerala

Haritha R.

‘Alternate’ Childhoods and ‘Different’ Tales

Bivitha Easo

Saadat Hasan vs Manto: The Man vs the Author

Srija Naskar

How the legendary Begum Akhtar influenced the life and poetry of Agha Shahid Ali

Manan Kapoor

Alienation, Migration and Loneliness in Nirmal Verma’s Writings

Akhil P. Veetil

The Architecture of Silence: Octavio Paz in Delhi

Manan Kapoor

Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Renascent Bengal

Prof. Amiya P. Sen

Avtar Singh Sandhu (Pash): Life and Works of a Revolutionary Poet

Manan Kapoor

Visual Manifestations of Ramayana in Folk Performances

Abira Bhattacharya

Ramayana Paintings from Seventeenth Century ‘Malwa’ Manuscripts

Sanjoy Kumar Mallik

Ramayana Themes in Pahari Paintings

Rupali Yadav

Manan Kapoor

Mirza Ghalib in America

VS Naipaul: The Enigma of Self and Identity

Dr Sanjukta Dasgupta

Su.Ra's Women: Myth and Fantasy

Perundevi

The Visualisation of Ramayana in the Mughal Paintings under Akbar’s Patronage

Abira Bhattacharya

Field Notes: Telling the tale of Gopi Chanda in Chhattisgarh

Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Mushtak Khan

Hanuman: Myths, Legends and Lore

Shruti Chakraborty

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Jataka Tales: Karma, Life Lessons and Stories of the Afterlife

Dasamahavidyas: Imagining a Feminine Universe

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Vikram and Vetal: How Many Know of the Stories within a Story?

The Fable of the Courtesan, the Ascetic and the King

Lee Siegel

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Aamer Hussein

The Presence of a Language: Journeys in Urdu Literature

Translating the Sacred: Andal

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Histories

H.S. Shivaprakash

Transformations of Meanings and Rasa in Inter-Semiotic Translations Across Genres

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Literature and Languages

Sudha Gopalakrishnan

The Nala-Damayanti Narrative: Reflections in Myth, Poetry and Performance

Alternative Poetry of the Northeast

Robin Ngangom

Linguistic Latitudes and Cultural Crosscurrents in South Asian Literatures

Namita Gokhale and Dr Malashri Lal

Sufi Shrines of Shahjahanabad

Syed Mohammad Qasim

Literature and Languages Histories Built Spaces

Mogan J. Rodrigues

The East Indian Dialect

Creation Myths: How did the World, and its Many Stories, Begin?

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals Histories

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Mahatma Gandhi’s 'Hind Swaraj': Imagining a Nation

Kamadhenu: The Pleasures of Giving

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

पल्लव

बदलती-बिगड़ती और बिखरती हिंदी

छत्तीसगढ़ी लोकगीतों में आभूषण

मुश्ताक खान

Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Aprameya Manthena

Poetry as an Anthropological Record in the Kuravanji

Women in Sundara Ramaswamy's Fiction

D.I. Aravindan

Folk Songs of Saraz in Chenab Valley

Rohan Chauhan

Literature in the Sarazi Language of Chenab Valley

Vikalp Ashiqehind and Rohan Chauhan

Saraz and Sarazi: Situating a Language and Linguistic Zone in Jammu and Kashmir

Chakraverti Mahajan

Some Legends and Folk Stories of the Baiga People of Central India

Riddhi Pandey (compiler)

Swati Moitra

The Workers of Battala

Abhimanyu Acharya

हिंदी उपन्यास का विकास

कबीर का पितृसत्तात्मक संसार

डॉ सुधा उपाध्याय

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Literature and Languages

Purushottam Agrawal

Kabir: Personal and Political

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Sunil Kumar

लोकगाथा राजा सलहेस

Sunil Kumar

हाशिये पर सलहेस कलाकार

दलितों के प्रतिरोध की अभिव्यक्ति हैं सलहेस

हसन इमाम

Culture, Space and Art in Nirmal Verma’s Writings

Akhil P. Veetil

Dalit Women and the Ambedkarite Movement

Vaishnavi Mahurkar

Urmila Pawar's Memoirs: Weaving a Tale of Life on the Margins

Vaishnavi Mahurkar

लोकगाथा राजा सलहेस की साहित्यिक विवेचना

राम श्रेष्ठ दीवाना

Performing Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

George A. Grierson

'अथ गीत राजा सलहेसक'

Performing Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Sunil Kumar

लोककला और साहित्य के आईने में सलहेस

Performing Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Caste, Region and History: Mahisyas and the ‘Anti-Partition’ Mobilisation in 1932

Perspectives on Caste: The Nineteenth-Century Bengali Literati

Neha Chatterjee

Non-Fictional Writings of Pudumaippithan: An Overview

Jagadeesan Thangavel

Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan: An Atheist Monk

Pranshu Prakash

Partition Poetry in Sindhi

Vimmi Sadarangani

The Post-Partition Sindhi Short Story

Mohan Gehani

Teen Aurtein/Three Women (Selected Short Stories of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

Banaras Ka Thug (Selected Short Stories of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

Naya Inteqaam/A New Revenge (Selected Short Stories of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

The Miracle of Prajapur (Selected Short Stories of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

My Literary Credo (Selected Writings of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

Who Killed India? (Selected Writings of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

Letter to a Child Born on August 15 (Selected Writings of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

The End is the Beginning (Selected Writings of K.A. Abbas)

K.A. Abbas

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

Manikodi

Guldasta: A Bouquet of Tributes to K.A. Abbas

Bread Beauty Revolution: A Modest Review-cum-Eulogy

Raj Nandy

The Non-Communist Communist

Raza Naeem

Politics of Exclusion: Re-reading Texts and Culture of Mappila Songs

Umar Tharamel

K.A.A. versus K.A.A.: A Personal Portrait of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

Anwar Abbas

Ocean in a Goblet: The Songs of K.A. Abbas’ Films

Dr Syeda Saiyidain Hameed

New Narratives for the New Age: The Cinema of K.A. Abbas

Rashmi Doraiswamy

‘Rupiya, Anna, Pa’i’: A Life Told on the Pages of an Accounts Ledger

Tahira Naqvi

The Short Stories of K.A. Abbas: Depicting the Life of the Common Man

H.S. Chandalia

Epsita Halder

Jarigaan

External Links: Passion of Christ and Indian Art through the 20th Century

Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

The Passion in Prayer, Poetry, Prose, Philosophy: Writing in Indian Languages

'Murdahiya' ke Stri Patra/ 'मुर्दहिया' के स्त्री पात्र

अनीता भारती

भारतीय भाषाओं में इतिहास-लेखन की परंपराएं और चुनौतियाँ (हिंदी के विशेष संदर्भ में)

रज़ीउद्दीन अक़ील

Dalit Sahitya ki Gyan Mimansa/ दलित साहित्‍य की ज्ञान मीमांसा

दीपक सिंह

Baroda Patronage: Sayajirao Gaekwad III as Patron of Art

Sandeep Joshi

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories Institutions People

Kapila Vatsyayan

Culture and Science

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals Histories

Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan

Abhinavagupta

Choreography of Murder: A Perspective on Anand’s Book of Murder

Sanil V.

Lalla Arifa: Apostle of Humanism

Ghulam Nabi Khayal

The Practice of Translation in India

Mini Chandran

प्रगतिशील साहित्यिक आंदोलन

Dr Rekha Avasthi

Online Resources on Namdeo Dhasal

Subuhi Jiwani

Satish Kalsekar

Everyone's Rebel Poet

A Language of Heterogeneity: The Poetry of Namdeo Dhasal

Sachin Ketkar

Shrinivas Rath (1933–2014)

Radha Vallabh Tripathi

Literature and Languages Institutions People

External Links

Performing Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Debaprasad Bandyoapadhyay

নীরবতার না-ভাষাতত্ত্বঃ লালনে

Performing Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Saymon Zakria

বাউল/Baul

Performing Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Judhajit Sarkar

Excerpts from Hutom Pyanchar Noksha in English

The Rāmāyaṇa: Theme and Variation

Romila Thapar

Robert Palmer Goldman

The Spirit of the Age

On the premier performances of the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki

Naina Dayal

Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Judhajit Sarkar

Literature and Languages Institutions

S. Satish Kumar

Area Studies

Literature and Languages Institutions

Ipshita Chanda

Literary History

Literature and Languages Institutions

Dr. Ale Ahmad Suroor

غالب کی عظمت (The Greatness of Ghalib)

غالب اور عہدِ غالب (Ghalib and his Times)

Dr. Maula Bakhsh

Samples of Sufi Literature and Lyrics

Yousuf Saeed

Haradas Appacha's contributions to Kodagu literature

Performing Arts Literature and Languages People

Literary contributions of Haradas Appacha

Haradas Appacha and Kodagu's nationalism

Internalizing Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Anisur Rahman

Modern Urdu Poetry and PWA

Dr. Anisur Rahman

Introduction to Literature in the Roman Script

Olivinho J.F. Gomes

Ipshita Chanda

Charit as a Genre

Sahapedia Frames

Stonehunters: The Epigraphic Quest for Bengaluru

Perumal Venkatesan

Library Artifacts