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New Launches
Book: ‘Travancore: The Footprints of Destiny’Source: in.news.yahoo.com
Book: ‘Travancore: The Footprints of Destiny’ – Autobiography: Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma, the former king (as told to Uma Maheswari); Publisher: Konark Publishers; Price: Rs.2,000
In 1924, when Mahatma Gandhi asked young Chithira Tirunal, the 12-year-old prince of the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in Kerala, if he would remove untouchability and throw open the [...]
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JLF – A CompilationA compilation of articles on the Jaipur Literature Festival
A discussion based on a topic suggested by Orhan Pamuk to explore what he termed “a constellation of problems non-Western writers face”.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Do-non-western-writers-face-more-problems/articleshow/7344248.cms
Amidst the brawl, a few sparks
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110122/jsp/frontpage/story_13478268.jsp
Are the books a relic of the past with the onset of the digital age? A video of the debate:
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/we-the-people/will-books-survive-the-digital-age/188858
A big, [...]
Languages
Ancient language Bo dies with last speakerSource: mirror.co.uk
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has passed away – and with her the ancient Bo language.
Boa Sr was the only surviving descendant of the Bo people, who inhabited the remote Andaman Islands off the east coast of India.
She died last week aged 83 after living through British rule, Second World War Japanese [...]
People
Effortless IntellectSource: Hindustan Times
Professor Meenakshi Mukherjee, who passed away in Hyderabad on September 16, was one of the most innovative, inspiring and widely honoured professors of English of her generation in the country. Each one of her major books charted out a fresh field and flung open new doors of academic enquiry — The Twice-Born Fiction: [...]
Blogs & Articles
My Experience of the Jaipur Literature FestivalDIVYA DUBEY
Publisher, Gyaana Books, Delhi
Last year I missed the Jaipur Literature Festival as Gyaana was busy with a parallel event in Delhi – its own debut. Hence, it became doubly important to visit Jaipur this year, and witness what has emerged as the grandest literary experience in India over the last few years.
Funnily enough, everybody [...]