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French has been a South Asian language since the 17th century, when agents of the French East India Company and French travellers arrived in India.

The author of ‘On Being Indian’ discusses Indianness, intellectualism, the anti-CAA protests and more

An interview with writers Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Amit Chaudhuri.

‘I wanted to move away from the exotica narrative of colonial writings to bring something new, something fresh through the Franco-Pondicherrian perspective.’

 ALIGARH  : The Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University organized a two-day National Seminar on “Indian English Poetry: Toru Dutt to Vanavil K. Ravi” with the objective to explore the genealogy of Indian Poetry written in English.In his

 Aligarh : The Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, in an attempt to celebrate and honour Indian English poetry and poets, beginning from Toru Dutt to Vanavil K Ravi, is organising a two-day national conference on May 1-2, 2023 at t

In the 11th part of our series on Indian cultural associations we focus on Nandan NZ a Bengali Indian cultural association which is committed to making homesick Kiwi Bengalis feel at home in New Zealand

‘Bombay Hangovers’: Stories that compulsively narrate the routine lives of the city’s residents Still, Rochelle Potkar’s collection of short fiction tries to pick out unusual people. Mumbai by night. | Skye Vidur / CC BY-SA 2.0 We Indians are literary fiction snobs. We are never happy without a sense of quotidian tragedy looming over our stories. We have relegated passionate romances to films and humour to stand-up comedians – some of whom are not even jailed. In li...

Toru Dutt can be considered one of the first practitioners of Indo-Anglian literature. In her brief but brilliant life she accomplished an impressive volume of work, written or translated into English. Dutt was born to a Bengali Christian family in Calcutta. Her father had converted his family to Christianity when she was six. Dutt was the youngest of three children, after Aru, her sister, and Abju, her brother. She was educated at home and learnt English and French, as well as Sanskrit and Ben...