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Marathi literature through calligraphy will adorn 35 walls of Navi Mumbai | Bombay News
Thirty-five walls across the city of Navi Mumbai will depict the prominent literature of Marathi poets in the form of calligraphy.To promote Marathi literature and encourage residents to take up reading, the city administration has some…
The 11th edition of the Jashn-e-Adab literature festival will start on March 25
Lyricist Sameer Anjaan, actor Pankaj Tripathi, Punjabi singer Jasbir Jassi and Urdu poet Farhat Ehsaas are among the headliners of the 11th edition of Jashn-e-Adab Sahityotsava, starting March 25.
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World Poetry Day – Promoting the unique role of poetry in literature
March 21 each year is commemorated as World Poetry Day. A decision to proclaim the 21st March as World Poetry Day was adopted during the 30and session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization…
Annie Flanders, founder of Details magazine, dies at 82
Annie Flanders, the fiery red-haired founding editor of Details magazine, the proudly independent chronicle of downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, died March 10 in an assisted living facility in Los Angeles. She was 82 years old.
The cause…
Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts Partners with Jaipur Literature Festival 2022
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Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts Partners with Jaipur Literature Festival 2022
Posted on March 16, 2022
Hosts Writers Ball at Leela Palace Jaipur
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Webinar explores the connection between race, environment through literature and sociology
Professors from various departments discussed the complex intersections of climate and race during the "Race & Environment in America" webinar on Tuesday. This was the penultimate webinar…
Liu ’25: Literature needs more non-white sad girls
From Sylvia Plath to Lana Del Rey, many female artists have embraced a kind of acute sadness that feels both delicately feminine and inseparable from their femininity. It's not the kind of…
Monograph pays homage to ‘rocket boy’ Homi Bhabha
A monograph traces the life and times of the father of India's nuclear power project Homi Jehangir Bhabha, his rich scientific heritage and his vision in addition to talking about his passionate interest in art and architecture and his love…
Scientific Literature Review Confirms Watermelon’s Health Potential
Watermelon is a unique fruit with compounds that may have health effects throughout the body, supporting normal cardiovascular and metabolic health. According to a new comprehensive review of the scientific literature on watermelon, eating…
Pre-orders are live for Monika Nendoroid from the Doki Doki Literature Club
Hey you. Yes, you, on the other side of the computer screen. You like anime girls, don't you? I will know it; I've been watching you for a while. I can also see all the figures in your room. Now, wouldn't you love to add…
sabha: Digital copies of 500 books to bring Assamese literature to young people | Guwahati News
Guwahati: The Asam Sahitya Sabha has released the digital copies of more than 500 ancient and valuable books with the aim of preserving the works of the great contributors to Assamese literature and passing them on to young people around…
Children with access to good literature thrive as citizens
Amrita Patwardhan
New Delhi- Stories and narratives are fundamental to being human and children with access to good quality literature become much more engaged as citizens, says Amrita Patwardhan, head of education!-->!-->…
“Children with access to good literature thrive as citizens”: The Tribune India
New Delhi, February 10
Stories and narratives are fundamental to being human and children with access to good quality literature become much more engaged as citizens, says Amrita…
‘The craft of fine writing’ celebrated at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
DUBAI - The art of fine writing was celebrated today at the Emirates Airline Literature Festival with a special ceremony to honor the winners of the Royal Grammar School (RGS) Guildford Dubai Children's Letter Writing…
Gender Inequalities in Medical Research: A Systematic Literature Review
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Women's Health Representative (New Rochelle). 2022 Jan 31;3(1):49-59. doi: 10.1089/whr.2021.0083. eCollection 2022.
ABSTRACT
Fund: Historically, medical studies have excluded female…
Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 to celebrate with art-centric sessions
The 15th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival will take place from March 5 to 14, 2022 in its home city of Jaipur. Each year, Teamwork Arts, the producer of the festival, promotes art and world heritage through a variety of…
Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 is set to take art lovers on a fascinating journey
Scheduled to run from March 5 to 14, 2022, the Jaipur Literature Festival will return to its hometown, Jaipur, for its 15th edition. Each year, Teamwork Arts, the iconic Festival producer, promotes art and world heritage with many…
Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 to celebrate art with a plethora of art-centric sessions
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 to celebrate art with a plethora of art-centric sessions
Posted on February 1, 2022
Scheduled to run from March 5 to 14,…
A review of the scientific literature confirms the health potential of watermelon | Illinois
CHICAGO, January 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Watermelon is a unique fruit with compounds that may have health…
A library that the Internet never tires of
On the first Tuesday of the year, author and political activist Don Winslow tweeted a photo of an avid reader's dream library. Bathed in the buttery glow of three table lamps, nearly every surface in the room is covered in books. There…
Why Lady Macbeth Is Literature’s Most Misunderstood Villain
This fateful choice, in the case of Lady Macbeth, can best be understood as that of a woman navigating a strongly patriarchal world. If women had ambitions in early modern England, they were chiefly to achieve them through men, and there…
Construction in imaginary literature – Eurasia Review
The art of architecture is an important aesthetic element that can leave a lasting impression on the mind about the values of a society. Today's architectural art, education and culture have gradually evolved into engineering…
Emirates Literature Foundation initiative sees 516% increase in Arab author profiles
“Kateb Maktub is an ambitious, yet much needed project. It builds on our enthusiasm for the Arabic language and the mission of the Emirates Literature Foundation to support and nurture the love of literature in the UAE and throughout the…
Anne Rice, queen of New Orleans gothic literature and champion of the city’s mystique, has…
Anne Rice, the novelist whose 1976 blockbuster "Interview with the Vampire" conjured up a singular vision of…
HarperCollins named Tata Literature Live! Editor of the Year
Tata literature live! The literary awards for 2021 were announced during the festival finale held from November 18-21.
Tata literature live! Book of the Year (Fiction)…
On a long-awaited critical anthology of Bangladeshi literature in English
For anyone with an academic or amateur interest in Bangladeshi writings in English, this book must be long awaited. The publication of Mohammad A Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan – edited Bangladeshi Literature in English: A critical…
Vilnius designated UNESCO City of Literature
Vilnius named UNESCO City of Literature The Lithuanian capital has become the second city in the Baltic countries after Tartu to receive the permanent designation
Long known as an open and friendly place for all nationalities, languages…
In Defense of Literature – The Yorker
Written by Ruo Wei Lim
'What do you plan to do with your English degree?
Some version of this interrogative is the first and often the only answer I get from people asking what I'm studying in college, whether it's friends,…
A researcher traces the concept of taste in literature back to the 16th century
LAWRENCE - It turns out we can thank a guy named Bacon for the concept of "taste," as in discerning the relative value of cultural goods.
That's what Jonathan Lamb argues in a new article, "What Books Taste Like: Bacon and the Borders of…
the debate around ghostwriters – Palatinate
By Caitlin Ball
You may recall in recent years the backlash some YouTubers and social media celebrities turned “authors” have garnered for their alleged use of ghostwriters. More often than not, this criticism (and derision) stems…
Malayalam literature translates into success stories
On a trip to her parents in Thiruvananthapuram, Ministhy S read VJ James' first novel Purappainte Pusthakam and was bowled over by her sweet and insightful narrative. Noticing the author's email address in the book, Ministhy, an IAS…
Top 7 most hateful characters in Russian literature
1. Nikolai Stavrogin from 'Demons' by Fyodor DostoyevskyStavrogin is the personification of the darker side of human personality. There is probably no character in the novel that Stavrogin wouldn't hurt, seduce, insult, offend, or…
From Soyinka to the 2021 Gurnah Nobel Prize, African narratives in world literature
Talk to The Guardian after winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah remarked, "I could do with more readers." Gurnah - who has published 10 novels, several short stories and essays - began writing in…
Interview: Mita Kapur, Literary Director, JCB Prize for Literature – “I want to make the…
The long list for the JCB Prize included many debuting authors this year. Have literary prizes become more welcoming to new authors?I would say that a literary prize is more about the quality of the writing than the notoriety of an author…
The Nobel Prize for Literature is announced on Thursday : NPR
Past winners include authors Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway. American poet Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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In a few hours, a new name…
Beginner Tips for Doki Doki Literature Club Plus
The visual novel genre is a pretty safe and enjoyable genre that features great stories and amazing artwork without throwing a ton of gameplay into the mix. So it's easy to see why many gamers don't really bother trying out new entries in…
Kawabata Yasunari: Finding Harmonies Between Literature and Traditional Art
Kawabata Yasunari won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968 for works written with narrative mastery and sensitivity. Academic Taniguchi Sachiyo explores the connections between art and the literary world of Kawabata.…
Literature and immigrants – Indonesia Expat
After being elected the 45th President of the United States in 2017, Donald Trump sparked further controversy by imposing a temporary travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and…
Introducing the New American Literature Series
October 13, 2021 – January 19, 2022
Sponsored by the U.S. Embassy Athens and its Athens American Center
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Athens and its American Center Athens are proud to announce our upcoming American…
Humanism in Rabindranath’s Literature | theindependentbd.com
Rabindranath Tagore is the poet whose writings have enriched all branches of Bengali literature and opened up new horizons of creativity. This great poet of Bengali literature was born in Calcutta on May 7,…
Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics and Literature in Britain, by Mark A. Allison
When Sir Keir Starmer was seeking to become Labor leader in 2020, he was keen to spruce up his left-wing credentials as the unity candidate to replace Jeremy Corbyn. He therefore declares “I am a socialist”, but quickly qualifies: “For me,…
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! Side stories play you more than the original ever did
This article contains spoilers for Doki Doki Literature Club Plus (DDLC+) and its side stories.
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is destabilizing. Anyone who has played the original version can certainly attest to its disruptive ability to…
Graduate student explores gay literature’s contributions to social movements, canon
When Percy Shelley called poets "the world's unrecognized legislators", he was perhaps anticipating the future poetic argument that would pit those interested in form as a matter of primary aesthetics against those who see poetry through a…
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Adds Side Stories and Remastered Art
IGN's Summer of Games has unveiled an expansion to the DDLC visual novel called Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, which includes new side stories and art.
Almost four years since the original…