The Mother of all Indian novels, as Don Quixote is of Western novels; in fact all, novels in Marathi and Kannada are called kadambaris. A sophisticated narrative of three love-stories spanning three ...

Amod Maheshwari, the CEO of the family owned Rajkamal Prakashan, a well-known Hindi publishing house, which had published Ret Samadhi in Hindi, in 2018, sent out a message to his printers to print ...

The world of Hindi literature is a vast ocean of emotions, thoughts, and realism — where every story speaks to life itself. But for a new reader stepping into this world, the biggest question is: ...

Beginning your Hindi literature journey can be daunting, particularly if you are not a native speaker of the language. But don't worry—there are some novels written in plain, everyday Hindi that is ...

Hindi Diwas is celebrated on September 14 every year because on this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India had adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the official language of the ...

My mouth was blue from Slurpee and I was wearing my favorite pink SpongeBob shirt as I perused the supermarket’s paperback section. As a 13-year-old raised on a cattle farm, I devoured books ...

MUMBAI – Pen n Paper Book discovered an important fact amid the crowded scene of bookshelves brimming with literary gems. There are innumerable hidden diamonds waiting for their chance to shine in a ...

Amitav Ghosh made history in 1997 as the first Indian author to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award, for “The Calcutta Chromosome.” But Ghosh is just one of many writers of must-read Indian science-fiction ...

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too. By Vauhini Vara I ...

Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three ...