[caption id="attachment_9285" align="alignnone" width="6000"] MANIPAL: The last day of the three-day Manipal International Literary and Arts Platform (M.I.L.A.P.) on September 8, began with a talk by Sushma Deshpande on the portrayal of women in the Indian theatre scenario. The acclaimed theatre practitioner and director conversed with...
Manipal: What is home? Is it a concrete place or an abstract notion? Such questions were deliberated and discussed on the panel held on the final day of M.I.L.A.P featuring Bhutanese writer Kunzang Choden and Tibetan writer-activist Tenzin Tsundue. They shared their experiences and views on...
MANIPAL: The second day of Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform (M.I.L.A.P.) began with a panel discussion featuring Charu Nivedita and Deepti Sreeram titled, ‘Symbols of Diversity in Writing’. The session comprised of many topics including his own life experiences in terms of writing and...
MANIPAL: The second edition of Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform (M.I.L.A.P.) kick-started with the theme ‘A Millennium Revisited – Tradition and Transformation’ on September 6 at the T.M.A. Pai Halls, Manipal. It was inaugurated by Atamjit Singh, famous playwright, Sahitya Akademi, and Sangeet Natak Akademi...
MANIPAL: An inauguration ceremony held at the TMA Pai Hall on September 6 set the cornerstone to Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform (M.I.L.A.P.), celebrating the second edition to a three day long annual festival from September 6 to September 8. M.I.L.A.P. was inaugurated by acclaimed...
The second edition of the annual Hindi literary fest Jashn-e-Manipal, organised by Manipal’s only Hindi literary club ‘Goonj’ took place on Tuesday, March 27 at the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) library auditorium. Noted poet Shambhu Shikhar, orchestrated his excellent oratory skills to produce a spellbinding...
The final day of Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform (MILAP) began with practitioners of Indian and foreign languages discussing several aspects of literary translation and the transcendence of boundaries in language at the Gangubhai Hanagal Auditorium. The five-member panel consisted of Aleix Ruiz Falques, Kamala...
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, Dr Shilpaa Anand; L. Subramani, currently working with Deccan Herald and Dr. Hemachandran Karah, assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology,...
Literature has served as a record for the constantly developing and transforming cultures all around the world. Be it the Indian Vedas, the Greek epics, the Latin poems or the innumerable literary pieces in a plethora of languages, we have them well within our reach....
Literature gives a reader the ability to experience the world through new and often unknown perspectives. It is, in and of itself, a public forum, allowing anyone and everyone the ability to understand a story or situation through another’s eyes. Hence, when it comes to...