Wordsmiths @ Katha

They are the masters of the written word. Every emotion in the spectrum of the human heart; every bhaasha and dialect in the country; every experience strong, light, subtle, sublime - they capture it intact, perfection limning every stroke, and deliver it to you. They come from every region of India - from the unexplored Northeast to the fiery deserts of the West. From snowy Northern peaks, to the rolling plains of the Deccan, the tapering lands of the South. They are the wordsmiths of Katha.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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Ashokamitran IN 1952, when Tyagarajan (he had not yet assumed the pseudonym of Ashokamitran) left Secunderabad, where he was born, grew up a...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

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Kamleshwar Kamleshwar (1932-2007) was among the pioneers of the Nayee Kahani movement in Hindi literature in the 1950s. He was awarded the S...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

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Indira Goswami Also known as Mamoni Raisom Goswami, a celebrated name in the field of Asomiya literature, blends scholarliness with creativi...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

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Alka Saraogi She is a well-known contemporary Hindi writer. She has three novels and two short story collections to her credit. Her first n...

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Kiran Nagarkar Winner of the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Cuckold, he is author of the landmark Marathi novel Saat Sakkam Trecha...

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Gurdial Singh An eminent writer, he had his first short story published in 1957. His creative works span a variety of genres – novels, short...

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Maitreyi Pushpa In the past nine years, she has become the urgent voice of blood, sweat and tears fiction about Bundelkhand and its people, ...

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Krishna Sobti Writer par excellence, Krishna Sobti's contributions to Indian literature transcends all cultural boundaries. Her innovati...
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

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Bimal Kar Born in Taki, North 24-Parganas, on 19 September 1921, Bimal Kar spent his early youth in Asansol and parts of Bihar. He was invol...

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Udaya Narayana Singh Udaya Narayana Singh is a poet, playwright, translator and linguist. He writes both in Maithili (under the pseudonym ‘...

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Merle Kröger She is a Berlin-based artist and filmmaker. She is the co-founder of the ‘ Botschaft e.V .’ and ‘ dogfilm ’ groups of authors ...

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Pudumaippittan Lakshmi Holmstrom recounts the great author's life. "Why is pudumaippittan relevant to readers today?" In the ...

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T Janakiraman One of the most popular Tamil writers of the 20th century, he was born in the village of Devangudi in Thanjavur district. Thi...
Friday, September 29, 2006

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Joginder Paul Joginder Paul has to his credit three novels, two novellas and many collections of short stories and “short” short stories – a...

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Intizar Husain Born in 1925, he is one of the most prolific and talented of Pakistani writers. Best known to his Urdu readership as a master...

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Anand Anand is the pseudonym of P Sachidanandan who was born in 1936, in Irinjalakuda in Kerala. Having graduated in Civil Engineering from ...

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Santanu Kumar Acharya He is an academician and an accomplished writer. His published works include fifteen novels and an equal number of sho...

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Bani Basu She has sixteen novels and six books to her credit. She has had her works published in periodicals like Anandamela, Desh, Ananda B...

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Pratibha Ray She is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and accomplished amongst the contemporary short story writers and novelists in Oriss...

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Damodar Mauzo He is a short story writer, novelist, columnist and screenplay writer and has been writing in Konkani for over three decades. ...

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Chandrasekhar B Kambhar He is an eminent poet, playwright, novelist, folklorist, film maker and composer of film music whose contribution t...

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M T Vasudevan Nair Littérateur, playwright, critic, travel writer, screenwriter M T Vasudevan Nair is one of the most outstanding writers of...
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Sundara Ramaswamy He was one of the finest contemporary Tamil writers. Despite a writing career spanning some fifty years, the volume of his...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

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La Sa Ra (Lalgudi Saptharishi Ramamirtham) Lalgudi Saptarishi Ramamirtham, familiar to his readers as La Sa Ra, is the author of seven novel...

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Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih He writes in both Khasi and English. He has also translated many Khasi folktales into English and vice versa. His po...

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Mamang Dai Mamang Dai is a journalist who has travelled extensively in India and abroad. She is a member of the North East Writers' Foru...
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