Gagan Gill was born in 1959 in Delhi. She had an extremely successful career as a journalist but chose to sacrifice the journalist for the poet in her in order to secure the ‘long periods of silence in her everyday life’ which she considered necessary to remain ‘truly connected to words’. Gagan has published four […]
Born in 1932, Hiren Bhattacharjya is one of the most popular contemporary poets in Assam. His first poem was published in 1957. His first anthology of poems Mor Desh Mor Premor Kabita was published in 1972. Bibhinna Dinar Kabita (1974) Kabitar Rode (1976) and Tomar Gaan (1976) followed in what was perhaps his most prolific […]
Nirmala Putul was born in 1972, in a Santhali Adivasi (tribal) family. She writes in the Indian tribal language, Santali. She has a diploma in nursing. A collection of her poems Nagare Ki Tarah Bajte Hain Shabad (Words resound like drums) was published in 2004. Nirmala Putul counterpoises her tribal world with the ‘developed’ modern […]
If one were to search for a name which is at once respected and popular in the entire Gujarati literature especially in the field of poetry and criticism the name of Dr. Suresh Dalal will automatically find its place amongst the most coveted ones. One would hardly come across an author of repute in any […]
Marion Molteno is a prize-winning novelist whose writing draws on the unusual cultural range of her life experience. If you can walk, you can dance won a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the best book from Africa, and two of her novels feature oral poetry – Urdu and Persian poetry in her latest novel, Uncertain Light, […]
Javed Akhtar is a highly respected Urdu poet who grew up in a family steeped in the traditions of classical poetry. In addition to writing poetry he is an award winning screen-play writer for Bollywood. Like Zehra Nigah, his poems use both classical and new forms.
Mohini Gupta is a writer/translator based in New Delhi. She has been the Charles Wallace India Trust Translator-Writer Fellow in 2017 for writing and translation, hosted by Literature Across Frontiers at Aberystwyth University. An alumna of SOAS University of London, she has been a Research Fellow at Sarai, CSDS; and a Dhvani Fellow at the […]
Mohan Rana (b. 1964) is a Hindi poet who grew up and studied in Delhi and now lives in Bath, England. He writes poems exploring themes of identity, truth, memories and nature. He has published eight poetry collections in Hindi, Jagah (Dwelling, 1994), Jaise Janam Koi Darwaza (As If Life Were a Door, 1997), Subah […]