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AfsanaBadosh ep 6: Listen to Salam Bin Razzaq's 'Kamdhenu' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam
Jashn E Qalam • 4 years agoAfsanaBadosh, presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam, celebrates the spirit of storytelling through narrations of the greatest Hindi and Urdu stories. This is Episode 6 — Salam Bin Razzaq's 'Kamdhenu', as performed by KC Shankar.
Poet and Sahitya Akademi Award winner Jayanta Mahapatra hospitalised after testing positive for COVID-19
Fp Staff • 4 years agoMahapatra was the first Indian poet writing in English to win a Sahitya Akademi Award for poetry.
Assamese writer, journalist and Sahitya Akademi awardee Homen Borgohain passes away aged 88
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCondolences came in from the Assam government and from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In Sambhaji, Vishwas Patil invokes the tale of a misunderstood but valiant monarch of the Maratha dynasty
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 4 years agoSambhaji’s is a tale that has been misunderstood throughout history, mired in controversy and scandal and appears as no more than a footnote in the larger story of the Deccan.
Marathi writer Nanda Khare refuses Sahitya Akademi Award for his 2014 novel Udya
Fp Staff • 4 years agoKhare says he stopped accepting awards four years ago.
On Day 2 of Delhi Literature Festival 2021, Pavan K Varma, Satyarth Nayak discuss Tulsidas' poetry, Sridevi's legacy
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe festival will run till 28 February.
Delhi Literature Festival 2021: Day 2 sessions to watch out for feature writers Pavan K Varma, Satyarth Nayak
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe festival will run from 19 February to 28 February, and be streamed online.
Translation of M Mukundan's Delhi: A Soliloquy, depicts the city's squalor as observed by its Malayali diaspora
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 4 years agoIt took two years for the writer to paint a picture of Delhi which was far from the glamorous and ‘cosmetic’ construct of the city in those minds that have never truly visited the capital
Noted writer and Sahitya Akademi awardee Dr GS Amur passes away aged 95
Fp Staff • 4 years agoKnown for his proficiency in both Kannada and English, Dr GS Amur was conferred with several prestigious honours, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, Rajyotsava Award and Bharatiya Bhasha Award.
With a recent translation, Sunil Gangopadhyay's Bengali novel Blood is set to entice a new generation of readers
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 5 years agoRenowned Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Blood is the story of Tapan, who spends years running away from the trauma of his father’s murder at the hands of a British officer, only to run into Alice, the daughter of his father’s killer, while on a visit to the UK.