Did You Know These 15 Popular Indian Poets Turned Lyricists?
Indian literature and cinema have had close ties since the latter’s inception. Artists practising both art forms have travelled to the other side frequently, whether
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We cannot talk about Indian literature without talking about its rich, impossible-to-capture, and all-fascinating canon of folktales. We bring together folktales from across nooks of India to show you how fascinating, and fundamentally shared, our cultural heritage is. Bonus points, you get to read amazing tales filled with magic and myth, virtue and vice, and absolute wonder.
Indian literature and cinema have had close ties since the latter’s inception. Artists practising both art forms have travelled to the other side frequently, whether
Amritesh Mukherjee from Team P3 was in conversation with Nilanjana Roy at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024. Nilanjana Roy‘s love for books is evident in
Prakruti Maniar was in conversation with Jeyamohan and Suchitra Ramachandran, the author-translator duo behind the brilliant book, The Abyss. Translated from Ezham Ulagam, The Abyss
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Indian literature has a rich tradition of dramas and plays through the centuries. With strong oral traditions, stories were seen and heard, and not read.
As they say (or should say, if they don’t), everything starts from the page. Almost every movie has its inception through a screenplay (or a
Amritesh Mukherjee curates a list of Indian actors who became authors for your TBR. You often see artists switching mediums, an actor becoming a producer,
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During the lockdown period, I got into reading autobiographies, as a distraction from my day job of teaching classical texts. While cleaning my bookshelf I
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