Every writer faces this unavoidable, uncomfortable and mind-troubling boulder: The writer’s block. The words stop flowing out of the pen, the mind stops producing ideas and the ambience doesn’t seem to cooperate. Writer’s block, people agree, is a creations block, where not only the words stop coming, the idea of the story and what will come […]
India’s apex literary body Sahitya Akademi is organising the country’s first transgender writers’ meet in Kolkata on Tuesday (July 16). The aim of the event is to give them a platform and introduce them to a larger audience, reported The Print. How did it materialize? Earlier this year, the Akademi’s language advisory board had its annual […]
The Hindi film industry has recently seen a rise in the number of women authors who are coming out and sharing their experiences as a film star, a mother or just as a woman. Here are five such women who have successfully used their power of writing to convey their thoughts. 1. Soha Ali Khan […]
We are delighted to announce the SheThePeople Women Writers Awards 2018. SheThePeople.TV is India’s first media platform dedicated to championing women and the stories they tell. It hosts the SheThePeople Women Writers’ Fest, which is in its second year now. In 2017, it was held across Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Kolkata. This year, the […]
This strife-torn world we are living in is in need of more and more writers who can mollify people through the power of their words. Writers are born with an innate ability to observe, sense and feel stuff that’s difficult to be spotted by anyone else. “When the imaginary world in your head is more […]
There’s no point pretending you don’t have FOMO when you’re at JLF — there’s inevitably sessions and speakers you miss, whether because they’re cross-scheduled against other enticing options, or you’re up… for a session, or an interview or a mish-mash of the two. The crowds at JLF are legendary and while it can sometimes feel […]
By Kavita Kané The devi or the devil? The winner or the vamp? The good or the bad. The answer, of course, will be as stereotyped as the question itself. It is far easy and presumptive to bracket characters and people in mythology into stereotypes and to paint them either black or white than see them […]
The Shilpa Shetty moment this week should be ample evidence to all of you that culture does matter. Literature and reading may be important for no other reason in the 21st century than to avoid tripping up on social media. Be warned! Of course I’m joking — the point of literature, apart from elevating your […]
Today, we celebrate the 184th birth anniversary of Louisa May Alcott, the woman who gave us the timeless ‘Little Women. Here are 10 things to know about her.
Was Surpanakha a vamp or a victim? Was she a woman more hated than hateful? Indian author Kavita Kane delves into the infamous character of Surpanakha from the Hindu epic Ramayana. The best-selling author is famous for writing on lesser-known female characters from the Indian mythology as her collection of written books include Karna’s Wife, […]
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