Chinnaiah Jangam’s translation of Telugu Dalit poet Gurram Jashuva’s Gabbilam, a re-writing in itself of Kalidasa’s Meghadutam, is a significant contribution to Dalit discourse in India and to the literatures of the marginalized in any part of the world.
In Ananthamurthy’s ancestral village in Karnataka, where he spent a significant part of his childhood and adolescence, the house had a front yard.
The story is that when Gandhiji came to the estate where her husband worked as a manager in February 1934, she insisted that the Mahatma visit her house too and went on a hunger strike, finally succeeded in getting the great man into her house when she gave all her gold jewels and took a vow to wear Khadi. She was just 21 at that time.
Two important Marathi texts—Adhantar: The Nowhere People (a play, 1999) by Jayant Pawar and Ringaan: The Full Circle (a novel, 2017) by Krishnat Khot are now available in English.
The Stepmother & Other Stories carries a small introductory note on Laxmibai Abhyankar’s life and times. The temporal nature of the book transports the reader to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the absence of a rooted, critical introduction
The overdose of theory served to the students of literature in the name of engendering critical rigour in research and reading has come under serious scrutiny of late.