In India, literary heritage is rich in diversity in its culture. Through poetry, fiction, essays, and stories deeply rooted ...

The JCB Prize for Literature, India's highest-paying book award, faces potential closure, causing concern and disappointment ...

India’s upper-caste elite are exclusive producers, promoters, and critics of Indian-English literature — including works in English translation.

The JCB Prize for Literature, India’s most prestigious book award, appears to have been quietly discontinued, sparking ...

The literary prize was established in 2018 to celebrate Indian writing, and to help readers across the world discover the ...

Literature departments in India face, at least, some sort of a double challenge to reckon with. To begin with, they are endowed with the task of defining how literature posits itself to the Indian ...

Several literary translations from India were published in the west during the last decade, ending Indian Writing in English’s monopoly over being the ‘face’ of Indian literature in the world.

The Murty Classical Library of India sifts through multiple languages and thousands of years to bring a nation’s literary treasures to English-language readers.

Century of Indian literature in translation: More and more stories by writers from all parts of India are becoming available to the English-reading public. (Illustration by Suneesh K for Moneycontrol) ...

Stressing the importance of Indian languages as the soul of the nation's identity, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on ...

The annual award carried a prize of Rs 25 lakh and was a pioneer in celebrating Indian writing, particularly works of ...