In his famous essay, “Three Hundred Ramayanas,” (1987) AK Ramanujan ascertains the plurality of the Rama katha. While Valmiki, the sovereignty of the “original” Sanskrit text, created in Rama the ...
The translation, titled Hikayat al-Jaddah ( Grandmother’s Tales ), marks the first time an Assamese literary work has been rendered into Arabic.
The eighteen short stories that constitute One More Story about Climbing a Hill by Devabrata Das collate into an extended social commentary of what is at stake when passivity becomes the norm. The ...