I procrastinated for months over this blog post. I couldn’t begin to put into words what Manto’s stories can stir up without sounding like an incoherent babbler. Yet, it is not like this was my first exposure to Manto. I have seen film adaptations of some of his short stories. The first of these was Mantostaan (an anthology of four of his partition ( Read more... )

Even if the name Subhadra Kumari Chauhan does not ring a bell, if you have been educated in India, you would surely know of her most famous creation: “Jhansiwali Rani”. This poem is, I think, rather representative of her own life and writing focus.

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was a Satyagrahi, poet and, after Indian Independence, a Member of ( Read more... )