Progressive Writers News Today

On September 2, the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Association organised the Sanatanam (Sanatan Dharma) Abolition Conclave (Conclave for Destruction of

While many of the writers are accustomed to getting threats, this time the person/s writing the letters, who signs off as ‘Sahishna Hindu’, seems more tenacious than others, persisting with it for months on end.

‘Songs will always be around, the form and usage will change,’ says the ‘Jubilee’ lyricist.

Rehman Rahi, a celebrated Kashmiri poet who devoted his life to promoting and preserving the Kashmiri language and gave its poetry a distinct identity

Kashmir’s renowned poet and Jnanpith awardee Professor Rehman Rahi passed away on Monday morning at his Vicharnag residence in Srinagar. He was 98.

BY SANKAR RAY Preeti Banerjee (nee Sarkar) who first sang Sare Jahanse Achchha Hindostan Hamara, the lyric of Mohammad Iqbal (written in 1904), scored anew into a song by Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1945 at the Andheri commune of Indian Peoples Theatre Association in Bombay would have been 100-plus, had she been alive today. Born

A publication of the incomplete last novel of the giant of Hindi/ Urdu literature tantalises and grips, but leaves the reader

There was a phase, a period of wild expectation and tumult, when Progressive Writers and their inheritors ruled Hindi cinema.

COMRADE Syed Jamaluddin Bukhari was a much-loved and respected Marxist whose contribution to the cause of peasants,...

‘Excessive use of symbolism made the kahani disappear from the afsana’...