The 8th Pune International Literary Festival 2020 (PILF 2020) was a heady concoction of intense discussions that touched upon themes of the past, the present and the future. In a first for PILF, the 3 day fest was streamed online and saw a congregation of literary dignitaries, which included authors, poets, academicians, actors, singers, writers, […]
“The recently concluded Pune International Literary Festival at YASHADA offered a platform for meaningful dialogues on contemporary India, books, politics and was a welcome change from a world that largely operates in binaries. From Javed Akhtar, Manu S. Pillai to Shashi Tharoor many celebrated names of the literary world made an appearance and enthralled the […]
Rajesh Konsam, hailing from the mist-draped locale of Manipur presents his debut novel ‘Bittersweet’ set in Maximum City, Mumbai. Join us on a journey with the young Software Engineer turned author as we decode the intricacies of his novel published with Vishwakarma Publications and his inspirations. 1. You grew up in Manipur, studied in Coimbatore […]
“Small towns boast of a flourishing literary culture around tea stalls, in mushairas, kavi samellans and through widely available literature in vernacular languages. Get a peek into the intriguingly colorful literary cultures in small towns.“ Truth is often stranger than fiction, and yet it is often in stereotypes, far removed from truth, that we put […]
