Antara Gange
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 …
BLF Live
BLF 2017 Reports Day 1
Voyage of Words – Translators Set Sail
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 …
சாதியும் நானும் – Caste and I
“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 …
History of the Kannada Script and Language
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, …
Whose Side are You On?
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 …
The City as a Protagonist
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 …
Jingoism Vs. Patriotism
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 …
Remembering Gauri
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 …