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A Life in Verse: Honouring Nissim Ezekiel on His Birth Anniversary
On his 93rd birth anniversary, poet Nissim Ezekiel’s family & associates share their memories of him with The Quint.
Here Are the 10 Most Borrowed Books of All Time at the New York Public Library
From children's books to dystopian classics
Dante 2021: Italy prepares for 700th anniversary of poet's death
Italy will mark the 700th anniversary of the death of the mediaeval poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, known as the father of the Italian language, with a programme of commemorative events in 2021.
Raddish lovers be so mad.
Aircrafts are being used to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potato to hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian bushfire crisis. The New South Wales government commissioned the service titled ‘Operation Rock Wallaby’ which aims to feed the state’s colonies of brush-trailed ...
It's time to revamp our autorickshaws.
Via Kaartikeya.
Antonio La Cava, a retired school teacher, transformed his 3-wheeler into a tiny mobile library to spread the joy of books to children in the remote places of Italy.
Writing About Writing
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Image: A writer in what looks like an apartment, sitting at a desk on a laptop and looking up at a person standing next to the desk.
Text:
“I don't understand it—no matter how much I drink coffee, play on my phone, refresh my e-mail, look up things online, go to the kitchen for snacks, message my friends, scroll through Twitter, and play with the cats, I still can't get any writing done."
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“I don’t have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is wher…
Some countries ban bread, others ban the internet.
During World War II, even America's "greatest thing" wasn't safe.
Meet Senora Trump, dear Donnie's doppelganger.
Via Kaartikeya.
A potato farmer has become an internet celebrity and renamed "Señora Trump" after a photo of her went viral on social media.
Oh dear old, McDonald's. You do some good things once in a while!
Shortened versions of Matilda, the BFG, and Willy Wonka are a few of the stories now being handed out in the Happy Meal Readers program.
50 Books To Look Forward To In 2020
With books from Hilary Mantel, Perumal Murugan, Suzanne Collins, Shehan Karunatilaka, Taslima Nasreen and many more, the first half of 2020 will leave readers spoilt for choice.
Let us prescribe more poems this new year.
Via Kaartikeya
Based in the Shropshire town of Bishops Castle, the business is the brain child of poet Deborah Alma.
Why Sonny Mehta (1942-2019) was often called the ‘best publisher in the world’
The editor-in-chief of Knopf, and the chairman of publishing giant Knopf Doubleday, died on December 30, 2019. A tribute by a protégé, Chiki Sarkar.
A home library can have a powerful effect on children
A new study finds that simply growing up in a home with enough books increases adult literacy and math prowess.
$100!
People like us are so poor, we ask submitters to intern with us once they send in a piece. :(
Fund us?
Weapon of Mass Instruction, A Mobile Library in the Form of a Tank That Distributes Books Around Argentina
Buenos Aires artist Raul Lemesoff built the Arma de Instruccion Masiva (Weapon of Mass Instruction), a tank-library hybrid mobile sculpture that is used
Shelf Awareness
Accurate.
Book Riot
*screams with holiday joy*
Book Riot
I don't need a plan, just hand me that drill!
In a Syrian Town Under Siege, a Secret Library Kept Dreams Alive
“Syria’s Secret Library,” by Mike Thomson, tells the story of a hidden book collection in a bombed-out building that functioned as “an oasis of normality” in the midst of war.
12 year old me used to lie to friends saying I didn't have Harry Potter, no.
It's noon on Sunday and Yashoda has climbed down the stairs of her house in Mattancherry in Kochi for lunch. She has to hurry back upstairs - there is, on the upper floor, a library to run. By now, her story has been written about. Young Yashoda D Shenoy – all of 12 – has been interviewed and ha...
Hahaha
O Rebecca 😂
Here is your chance to be a published writer before 2020 sets in.
Fire away.
Submission guidelines on www.thebombayreview.com
Kitab Khana
Distinguished writer, critic, editor, journalist and activist, Mulk Raj Anand's novels “Untouchable” and “Coolie” gained him widespread recognition for his realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the poor in India, and he is known as “India’s Charles Dickens”. Fondly remembering this much-loved author on his #BirthAnniversary today.
#OnThisDay #OnThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInLiterature #AuthorBirthday
Emily Dickinson's bedroom.
I’ve been in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom many times. But it was only recently that I truly saw the light there. In the years of research I did for my book, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the L…
A passion for politics, particularly among teenagers and young millennials, is fuelling a dramatic growth in the popularity of poetry, with sales of poetry books hitting an all-time high in 2018.
YAY!
Record £12m sales last year were driven by younger readers, with experts saying hunger for nuance amid conflict and disaster were fuelling the boom
Woman buys bookstore on impulse.
My budget doesn't let me impulse buy newspapers.
Via Kaartikeya.
Buried deep within the alluvial silt of Twitter’s great and brackish tidal id one discovers, every now and then, a gem pure and bright. So it was I came across this thread from Bayfield, Wisconsin …
Rupa Publications
The pain is real!
Jacinda Ardern on why the arts need to be universally accessible
New Zealands Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage says art should be for the many, not the few.
Kitab Khana
#OnThisDay in 1953, Vladimir Nabokov finished writing his iconic novel – ‘Lolita’, the story of a middle-aged literature professor and his obsession with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze — a.k.a. Lolita. Many authors consider it the greatest work of the 20th century, while critics have praised the beauty of its language, despite some of them voicing distress over its subject matter. Did you know Lolita was inspired by a real-life story?
#VladimirNabokov #VladimirSirin #Lolita #KitabKhana #KitabKhanaMumbai
A Local Crossword - Open The Magazine
‘WE WANT INDIGENOUS crosswords.’ That’s the instruction given to a new recruit by the editor of a local newspaper in one of the tales from Jane Borges’ Bombay Balchao. The newspaper’s crosswords have so far been syndicated from London, ‘but we are a Bombay paper, yaar, and we need local ...
The New Yorker Cartoons
A cartoon by Roz Chast. #TNYcartoons
Read this amazing piece by Bijaya Biswal!
Abridged versions taught in schools of “The Diary of a Young Girl” often omit out the parts where Anne Frank wrote about her bisexuality and the kiss she had with her best friend. “Every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example, it strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. If only I had a girlfriend”, she wrote. Social censorship works in unbelievable ways, such that the need for intersectionality even within the LGBTQ community is hardly spoken of. Lesbians have a lower representation than gays in collectives formed within the community owing to higher susceptibility to prejudice and higher social cost.
Bijaya is the chief organizer of the first LGBTQIA+ Pride in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
With Kaartikeya.
“The disgrace of your barrenness, Madam, is not yours alone. Don’t you know that shame is collective? The shame of any one of us sits on us all and bends our backs. See what you’re doin…
People in Bombay, please come.
The Nobrow Short Story Competition is accepting pieces till 9th December. Theme, very relevant today is 'Censor'.
Prizes worth £5000 to be won, along with publication in an anthology.
No entry fees.
Nobrow Short Story Competition Nobrow is well-known for our visual publishing and our dedication to designing and producing beautiful books. This is something we are extremely proud of. At the heart of all we do is storytelling. We believe this is the foundation on which our publishing is built – ...
We are interviewing some stalwarts of Indian literature and we need interviewers well versed with their work. If this excites you, drop a message to Kaartikeya Bajpai with links to your writing samples.
Meanwhile in Netherlands.
via Kaartikeya Bajpai
Special book given out as gift to readers during National Book Week is accepted instead of ticket
Button Poetry
Phil Kaye & Sarah Kay - "When Love Arrives"
Get Phil's book here: http://bit.ly/philkayewla
The rise and fall of Dakhni literature
Dakhni was transplanted in the region following Mohammed bin Tughlaq’s decision, in 1327, to move the capital of the Delhi Sultanate to Daulatabad.
Saadat Hasan Manto once wrote a kind of writer’s prayer, which could serve as jacket copy for a book:
“Dear God, Compassionate and Merciful, Master of the Universe, we who are steeped in sin, kneel in supplication before Your throne and beseech You to recall from this world Saadat Hasan Manto, son of Ghulam Hasan Manto, who was a man of great piety. Take him away, O Lord, for he runs off from fragrance, chasing filth. He hates the bright sun, preferring dark labyrinths. He has nothing but contempt for modesty but is fascinated by the naked and the shameless. He hates what is sweet, but will give his life to sample what is bitter. He does not so much as look at housewives but is entranced by the company of whores. He will not go near running waters, but loves to wade through slush. Where others weep, he laughs; where they laugh, he weeps. Evil-blackened faces he loves to wash with tender care to highlight their features. He never thinks about You, preferring to follow Satan everywhere, the same fallen angel who once disobeyed You.”
A collection of stories set around the time of partition and written with an aching longing for Bombay.
May Swenson everyone.
Question - Body my house
The Bombay Review is flying to Canada this December! Come over!
25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry
To celebrate the column’s 15th anniversary this month, and the new series on Amazon Prime Video, we pulled together some greatest hits.
Ah, Bond.
Fun could easily have been Ruskin Bond's middle name. With an amazing sense of humour, Bond says he had the quality of making the mundane interesting
By Palash Krishna Mehrotra.
As editors and publishers mollycoddle them, the white reader must ask herself why English writing from non-white writers must be ‘explained’ to her
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South Asia Literary Forum 2017 - Srinagar Edition Talks, Panels and Performances on 'Resistance to free speech' and 'Embracing Gender Equality: The Fight against Patriarchy and Sexism'
South Asia Literary Forum 2017 - Srinagar Edition Talks, Panels and Performances on 'Resistance to free speech' and 'Embracing Gender Equality: The Fight against Patriarchy and Sexism'
South Asia Literary Forum 2017 - Srinagar Edition Talks, Panels and Performances on 'Resistance to free speech' and 'Embracing Gender Equality: The Fight against Patriarchy and Sexism'
Interactive session with Anwesha Sanyal from Travel+Leisure India today at our travel and literary event in Delhi.
Ambica Gulati, Deputy Editor at Outlook Traveller answers questions on 'Travel Writing for the Web'. Today at our travel and literary event in Delhi.
