Literature
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In Remembrance of Jnanpith Laureate Vinod Kumar Shukla
By Chanchala Srivastava When something truly moves me, I do not want to speak about it immediately. I want to…
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UMass Amherst Graduate Kritika Pandey Wins 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
AMHERST, Mass. – Kritika Pandey, a 2020 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MFA for Poets and Writers, wins…
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Gujarati E-Poetry event breaks the record on Zoom by 1,000 log ins
BOSTON—Meghdhanush, an initiative by local poets and artists that aims at exploring the magic of Gujarati language and provide platform…
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Hindi Manch Presents “Kuch Tum Kaho, Kuch Hum Sunein”: A Music and Poetry Session on July 28
LEXINGTON, MA—Hindi Manch, a non-profit organization that produces engaging and entertaining programs to pass on the heritage of Hindi and…
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Ghalib’s work could only have found meaning in India: Javed Akhtar
Mumbai–Veteran lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar says legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s work could only have found meaning in India. “Ghalib was…
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Urdu Poetry Mesmerizes People at Aligarh Alumni Washington Mushaira
By Zafar Iqbal “Urdu is a language that binds people of the Subcontinent encompassing all religions and culture”, said Sanjiv Saraf…
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Hindi Manch to Host 3-Day National Hindi Convention in Boston, Celebrate its 10th Anniversary
By Yogita Miharia BOSTON—Hindi Manch, a Boston-based non-profit organization with the mission of bringing together people who know Hindi or…
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Depicting various hues of life with Urdu poetry: A dying art
By Vikas Datta “Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur” (“Whatever is said in Latin seems profound”), they say, and the…
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Alienation proves fertile state of mind for Lauren Groff
Fiction writer and 2018-19 Radcliffe fellow on the dread, glory, and urgency behind ‘Florida’ By Colleen Walsh Harvard Staff Writer Fiction…
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Two Gujrati Poets Bring an Entertaining Evening “Mehfil” to Burlington, MA
BURLINGTON, MA—After performing at two sold-out shows in Washington, DC and San Francisco, two Gujarati poets—one of them a Bostonian—are…
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