The author of ‘The Amazing Racist’, ‘Panther’, and ‘Loyal Stalkers’, Tenduf-La grew up in a bunch of cities that includes Hong Kong, London, Delhi, and Colombo. Through his own experiences, Chhimi Tenduf-La brings the nuances in the pursuit of getting …
Whenever translator Ms.Mini Krishnan selects a story for her book, she thinks about all the teachers and the children who may read it and discuss it. But this is not the only driving force for her to translate novellas.
Sitting …
Kaavya Sanje, or an evening of poetry is a regular event that was started in 2013. Sixteen editions later, the 17th was at Bangalore Literature Festival 2017. These evenings bring together various poets from across the cities who write in …
Women who have been through the toughest of times that life has thrown at them, Indira Lankesh and Dr. Vijaya opened in this interaction with M S Asha Devi about what makes them the strong women they are. Indira Lankesh …
Mini Krishnan, a well-known publisher, drove the session with Kannan Sundaram, a publisher in Tamil and MS Asha Devi and Subhashree Krishnaswamy, prominent literary translators to emphasize the dynamics and challenges of the literary translation, an art that often goes …
“Caste haunts you in the food that you eat. It might offer a moment of solace through community support. It might even offer you a god but there are more disadvantages to it”, says Ambai (C.S.Lakshmi) who has translated the …
Pulling in a 1600-year timeline of the evolution of a language so dear to its folk in its homeland into a half an hour slot is a task that could very well be passed off as a herculean task. Yet, …
Two of the most prominent sports writers and columnists sat to deliberate on the ever-changing landscape of the game of cricket. As T20s shatter all records of sports viewership and fandom and the International cricket based on the idea of …
In an exclusive interview with Meenal Baghel in the Bangalore literature festival, author, columnist and journalist Bachi Karkaria talks about her book, the other side of the man Prem Ahuja, Sylvia and Kawas Nanavati
Meenal: What fascinated you about …
How often do we flow into the city and see it as a living, breathing space that weaves in memories? Imraan Coovadia, the author of five novels (‘The Wedding, ‘Tales of the Metric System’, to name a few), Suketu Mehta …
Weekend mornings of an octoberish Bangalore can carry you into an inertia that is extremely difficult to overcome. However, this is a time loved and awaited by writers, poets, and patrons of literature for reasons transcending into the creative streak …
The Bangalore Literature Festival began with ‘Remembering Gauri’. Gauri Lankesh whose tragic death continues to haunt our souls was given a heart stirring rendition by co-founder of Sandbox Collective, Nimi Ravindran, poet and theatre artist Padmavati Rao, and theatre artist …
The most awaited panel discussion of the Bangalore Literature Festival was inaugurated with a beautiful message by Tasnima Nasreen on the issue of growing intolerance in the nation, which set the tone and topic for the rest of the discussion. …
ಎಂ. ಜೆ. ಅಕ್ಬರ್ ಆಧುನಿಕತೆಯ ಸವಾಲುಗಳ ಕುರಿತಂತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ, ನೂರು ವರ್ಷ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಚರ್ಚೆಗಿಂತ ನೂರು ವರ್ಷ ಮುಂದಿನ ಭಾರತ ಹೇಗಿರಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಚೆರ್ಚೆ ಈ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಬೇಕಾಗಿದೆ. ಇಹಿಹಾಸವನ್ನು ದ್ವೇಷದ ಮೂಲವಾಗಿ ನೋಡದೆ, ಕಲಿಯಬೇಕಾದ ಪಾಠವಾಗಿ ನೋಡಿದರೆ ಭವಿಷ್ಯ ರೂಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಾದ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳು ತೆರೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ ಎಂದರು.
ಭಾರತೀಯರ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳು ಭಾರತದ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳಲ್ಲ. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಮಾಡಿದ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳನ್ನು …
ನೇತಾಜಿ ಸುಭಾಶ್ ಚಂದ್ರ ಬೋಸ್ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಇತಿಹಾಸಕಾರರು ಮತ್ತು ಮೀಡಿಯಾದವರ ಗಮನ ಸೆಳೆಯಲು ಕಷ್ಟವಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೆ 2005 ರಲ್ಲಿ RTI ಕಾಯ್ದೆ ತಂದ ನಂತರ ತಾನು ಮತ್ತು ತನ್ನ ಸಹೋದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳು ಸೇರಿ ಗೃಹ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ನೇತಾಜಿ ಕುರಿತ ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಜಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದಾಗ, ದೇಶದ ಭದ್ರತೆಯ ನೆಪವೊಡ್ಡಿ ಸರ್ಕಾರದವರು ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತಿರಸ್ಕರಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಕೆಲವು ಕಡತಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ …
Mona Verma, the recipient of the Uttarakhand Ratna award, 2014 started the session by talking about Lady Macbeth, the character from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. After goading Macbeth into committing regicide, she becomes Queen of Scotland, but later suffers pangs of guilt …
The left wing was over-crowded to find an answer to one big question “Who does the writer write for?” Four authors from diverse background and who write in different genres gave the answer to this big question in their own …
Atta Galata had recently published ‘Karnakavita’, a compilation of poetic works of 30 Hindi poets based in Bangalore. Five of them joined us in BLF 2015 to recite their poems and discuss the various cultural, artistic and lingual issues. …
ವಿಕ್ರಂ ಸಂಪತ್ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾ “ ದೇಶ ಎಂಬ ಕಲ್ಪನೆಯೇ ಇರದಿದ್ದಾಗ ಒಬ್ಬ ರಾಜನಾಗಿ ತನ್ನ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಸ್ತಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಟಿಪ್ಪು ಹೊರಾಡಿದನೇ ಹೊರತು ಆತನನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ ಹೋರಾಟಗಾರ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುವುದಕ್ಕಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ” ಎಂದರು. ಯಾವುದೇ ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆಯೂ ಇದೇ ಅಂತಿಮ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಎನ್ನಲು ಬರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ, ಅದು ಕೇವಲ ಮಧ್ಯಂತರ ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳಾಗಿರುತ್ತವೆ. ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ಮರುಪ್ರವೇಶ ಮಾಡುವ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. …
