There ought not to be a debate over Orsini’s deportation; that there was tells us how structures of knowledge production ...

The writer speaks about Assamese literature, insurgency’s shadow, and why Indian publishing must embrace editors from ...

Peter Kornicki, husband of Francesca Orsini, says his wife planned to visit a Hindi novelist for translation clarifications.

The idea that Indians require a European to ‘teach’ them Hindi echoes colonial-era paternalism, ignorant of the vibrant ...

"Pundits" kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research ...

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore made history as the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, a collection of his Bengali poems that he himself translated into English. Yet, ...

Francesca Orsini, a leading UK scholar of Hindi literature, was denied entry and deported from India after authorities found she violated tourist visa norms by conducting research. The scholar, ...

Francesca Orsini, a renowned Hindi and South Asian literature scholar and professor emerita at SOAS, was deported from India ...

Did this introspection produce a greater dedication to democracy and the value of equality in the sense that Ambedkar had in ...

History is often weaponised. Asif’s comments are an example. They mix military threat with a distorted version of historical argument. The correct historical narrative is richer and more complicated.

More than a century ago, a group of fearless women known as Tawaifs danced, spied, and fought for India’s freedom. From ...

The 19th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, recognised globally as the “greatest literary show on earth,” returns to ...