Dialogues with a historical backdrop
Posted on Apr 14th, 2011
SANT Singh Sekhon (1908-1997) taught English, yet it was his writing in Punjabi that earned him great name and fame. One of his twelve full-length Punjabi plays, Mittar Piara, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972. It is only fitting that India’s premier literary body has now published a translation of his plays in English.
Tossed, diced and examined
Posted on Mar 28th, 2011
A group of bright PhD researcher at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, aided and abetted by their teachers, hosted a conference in 2007. The collection of papers presented then has come out as a very interesting book, “Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change”,
