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Women writers’ festival takes on the cultural fabric of Bengaluru through its female voicesThe festival has an impressive line-up of firebrand writers and performers.- #MeToo, Section 377 and more: Bangalore Literature Festival promises charged debatesTwo-day event this weekend is themed 'Young Voices, Relevant Noises'.
- Bengaluru literature festival wraps up on a 'Khamosh' noteFifth Bangalore Literature Festival, held over the weekend, wrapped up its eventful two-day edition with an up close and personal session w...
- Author Maya Jayapal feels a graciousness about Bengaluru that is not found elsewhereShe arrived in the city in 1955 to study at Mount Carmel College.
- Award wapsi boomerang: Sahitya Akademi says it will send back all awards returned to itThis was decided by the Akademi’s executive board which met on Thursday to announce annual awards for 2015 to litterateurs from across 23 I...
- 'India's present scenario resembles McCarthy era in the US'Noted writer Shashi Deshpande, said the present scenario bore a "dreadful resemblance" to the McCarthy era in the US, when nobody was exemp...
- No country can develop with a government that cannot respect artists: Shashi DeshpandeThe veteran writer, who relinquished her post at the Sahitya Akademi General Council over intolerance, also expressed concern over writers ...
- Writers boycott Bangalore Literature Festival over intolerance rowThis move comes in the wake of festival director and author Vikram Sampath's public stand against writers returning their awards and agains...
- Karnataka, Kerala writers form Save India Forum; members to discuss government's 'anti-people policies'The Forum will hold a series of public meetings across the country to discuss matters ranging from killing of dissent to beef politics and ...
- Awards launched: Intolerance to dominate this year's Bangalore Literature FestivalIntroduction of literary awards in three categories -fiction, nonfiction and literary achievement in Kannada -will be the other highlight.
- Rajnath Singh’s talks offer evokes mixed reaction;HM ready to discuss with writers & scientistsNayantara Sahga said the “PM and not Rajnath Singh” needs to address the concerns being voiced collectively by many sections of people.
- Authors urge Sahitya Akademi to reinvent itselfWriters wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging it to build on the resolution passed and respond in a 'strong, humane and robust' m...
- PM Narendra Modi should strongly condemn Dadri lynching: WritersNayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande today sought a strong condemnation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Dadri lynching incident.
- Voices not raised after Emergency, Muzaffarnagar: Union Minsiter Ravi Shankar PrasadPrasad's remarks comes after eminent author Shashi Deshpande said that PM Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident was "far too weak."
- PM Narendra Modi's choice of words 'very weak': Writer Shashi DeshpandeEminent author Shashi Deshpande today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident were "far too weak."
- Speak up on 'communal frenzy', Kashmiri writers to AkademiThe president of Adbee Markaz Kamraz (AMK), a body of 25 literary and cultural organizations from north Kashmir, Shujaat Bukhari, said in a...
- Voices of independent expressions cannot be stifled: Gopalkrishna Gandhi"This is to say that it 'it was a stilling of a different voice, a different way, a different faith and a different kind of food", the form...
- Shashi Deshpande resigns from Sahitya Akademi panel in protestShashi Deshpande resigned from the Sahitya Akademi General Council expressing "a sense of strong disappointment" over the literary body's s...
- United colours of Bengaluru: Everyone's making a beeline to the Karnataka capitalThe city, however, is much more. From time to time, it has assumed many identities, resulting in people from multiple cities and of diverse...
- Spotlight on Indian writers at Paris book fairWith Indian writers reaping awards and topping best-seller lists worldwide, this year's Paris book fair is putting the spotlight on the cou...
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