Indian Literature and the Book Business in the 21st Century
Thanks to Annie Janusch for bringing Chandrahas Choudhury’s survey of Indian literature and the book business to our attention. It’s a pretty general piece, but has some interesting info about trends in India: India’s book economy is, however, on a different arc, from that of the West and, like the Indian ...
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WLT Nov/Dec Issue in Full HTML Glory!
Last time I wrote about World Literature Today, I did so in some not entirely pleasant terms. Not because of WLT‘s content—which is always fantastic—but because of problems with my subscription (which, admittedly, I did nothing to try and correct prior to posting that post) and the WLT website (which, ...
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Blaft Publications and Zero Degree
One translated book I recently had to add to the 2008 translation database is Zero Degree by Charu Nivedita (translated from the Tamil by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and Rakesh Khanna), which was published by Blaft Publications earlier this year. I have to admit that until reading Rakesh Khanna’s comment on an earlier ...
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CALQUE Interview with Pratilipi
The always interesting CALQUE blog posted an interview over the weekend with the editors of Pratilipi, a relatively new bimonthly web magazine dedicated to publishing and promoting Indian writers from a number of regions and languages. Their goals are really quite ambitious and include a future print edition with a ...
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Guardian World Tour
After a bit of chiding this morning, we’re back with the Guardian love. The World Literature Tour is moving on from Ireland to India and Pakistan. A week of celebrations of the 60th anniversary of independence in both India and Pakistan has whetted our appetite, and we’ve seized the controls to head for a ...
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Pakistani Literature
Continuing its series of articles on Indian and Pakistani independence, The Guardian has a piece today by Kamila Shamsie on Pakistani literature, looking at the reasons why Indian lit took off, while Pakistani is yet to receive its due recognition. There is no denying the significance of years of military rule and ...
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Indian Lit, Part III
Maria Misra’s blog at The Guardian today completes our Indian Lit trifecta. The English language itself is the focus of this piece: Nationalists saw English as one of the chains that bound India to servitude and hoped that once the Raj was sent packing its language would quickly follow. And, The success ...
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