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‘Is There a Modern Indian Literature?’ is a thirteen-week course Amit Chaudhuri teaches from January onwards. You can register and audit it online; last year, it had over 200 registrations. More details here: ashoka.edu.in/is-there-a-mod…

The publication of Against Storytelling, a collection of essays by various writers and filmmakers, leads to this conversation between Peter D McDonald, who teaches English at Oxford, and Amit Chaudhuri: scroll.in/article/107646…

We share these translations of Iswar Gupta, which includes a translation of his ‘Ingraji Naba Barsho’ or ‘English New Year’, every on New Year’s Eve - for the poems, including the one I have just mentioned, to get new readers: literaryactivism.com/english-new-ye… Our best for 2025!

The 10th Symposium in the Literary Activism Series: ‘The Non-Peer Reviewed Essay’ Join us for the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of Literary Activism!

Here’s the schedule for the 10th Symposium in the Literary Activism Series: ‘The Non-Peer Reviewed Essay’ Details and the mission statement can be found here: ashoka.edu.in/event/the-10th… It’s open to all, but you can register if you wish: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The Literary Activism imprint (from the CCC, Ashoka University, and Westland Books) is reissuing, 33 years after it first appeared, Sunetra Gupta’s novel Memories of Rain. Here’s Amit Chaudhuri’s introduction (free to read if you register): indianexpress.com/article/expres…

Literary Activism is delighted that Vinod Kumar Shukla has been awarded this year’s Jnanpith Award. Last year, it published his first selection of poetry in English translation, Treasurer of Piggy Banks. Two essays on Shukla: literaryactivism.com/grass-lives-ne… And surl.li/vpqjyf

The 10th Literary Activism symposium begins tomorrow. It’s open to all. Mission statement and schedule here: literaryactivism.com/the-non-peer-r…

Day 2 will stream live here: youtube.com/live/uhFvUXY-K…

An interview with the Telegraph on the 10th anniversary of Literary Activism and the 10th symposium, which ended this evening: t2online.in/goodlife/books…

This morning’s Hindu on the 10th Literary Activism symposium on the ‘non-peer reviewed essay’.

On literary activism and its 10th anniversary in Open magazine: openthemagazine.com/art-culture/th…

Delighted by Ashoka students’ interest in the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Lit Activism, and the ‘non-peer reviewed essay’, speaking to a curiosity about non-academic thought+creativity. A piece in The Edict, the university’s student magazine: the-edict.in/post/10-years-…

The Literary Activism imprint has two new books out today - On Failing (not a self-help manual but essays by various writers, and one story by Lydia Davis, which she first read out at the 6th sympoium) and a reissue of Sunetra Gupta’s acclaimed 1992 novel, Memories of Rain.

Here’s Ranajit Das’s essay in the new Lit Activism collection, On Failing. That Das is a well-known poet in Bengali doesn’t make him unsuited to the subject. As Orwell said, ‘Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.’ scroll.in/article/108126…

An excerpt from Memories of Rain, Sunetra Gupta’s first novel, a unique reconsideration of middle-class Bengali life, expatriation, loss, and narrative form. Published to great acclaim in 1992, it was reissued this week by Literary Activism: scroll.in/article/108125…

‘The fight to save literary studies’ - Udbhav Seth in the Indian Express on the first day of the 10th Literary Activism symposium on the ‘non-peer reviewed essay’: indianexpress.com/article/books-…

This will happen at the IIC, New Delhi, on Monday 12th May, 6.30 pm. It’s open to all.

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One of the pieces we read today was by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra for LiteraryActivism literaryactivism.com/grass-lives-ne…