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south asian literature news

I spent years trying to be the black sheep of my family: Jeet Thayil

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(Photo by Pallavi Gaur)
Updated on Jun 20, 2025 01:28 pm IST

Dr Verma, acclaimed prof of South Asian literature, passes away

Dr Kamal D Verma (Sourced)
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 07:02 am IST

Indo Warehouse: We expect South Asians to deserved recognition in 2024

Indo Warehouse recently performed at Rockpool in Goa
Published on Jan 15, 2024 05:49 pm IST

Interview: Daniel Hahn, translator - “Awards are a statement of what we value”

Daniel Hahn photographed at the Story Museum in Oxford, UK. (John Lawrence)
Updated on May 30, 2023 09:56 am IST

Lilly Singh introduces her book club that celebrates South Asian stories

Lilly Singh introduces her book club that celebrates South Asian stories
Updated on Dec 10, 2021 07:57 pm IST

Amitabha Bagchi wins $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019

Amitabha Bagchi wins $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019.
Updated on Dec 17, 2019 09:08 am IST

‘Regional languages a treasure house of experiential wisdom’

Kannada writer-lyricist Jayant Kaikini’s book of short stories, “No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories”, translated into English by Tejaswani Niranjana, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 on January 25.
Published on Feb 04, 2019 01:22 am IST

Author Jayant Kaikini, translator Tejaswini Niranjana win The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018

Author Jayant Kaikini, translator Tejaswini Niranjana win The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018
Updated on Jan 26, 2019 07:52 am IST

Shortlist for the US$25,000 DSC Prize announced

Anuk Arudpragasam (centre, in brown) being handed the DSC Prize 2017 at the Dhaka Literature Festival.
Updated on Nov 15, 2018 07:01 pm IST

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 shortlist announced

The six shortlisted titles of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018
Updated on Nov 15, 2018 05:02 pm IST

Author interview: Anuradha Roy on her latest novel, merging fiction and non-fiction, women in her novel and why she likes Alice Munro

Author Anuradha Roy on her latest novel, All The Lives We Never Lived
Updated on Nov 12, 2018 02:23 pm IST

Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire is very much a book about London, and if I had stayed in Karachi I simply wouldn’t have written it

Kamila Shamsie’s most recent work, Home Fire, is a reinterpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone witnesses the conflicted lives of two Muslim families caught up in a battle between love and loyalty in modern Britain.
Updated on Nov 12, 2018 12:55 pm IST