World Hindi Day | Spoken word artist, poet Nayab Midha says, 'The day I wrote in Hindi, the world changed'

On World Hindi Day (Jan 10) spoken word artist Nayab Midha goes down the memory lane to recite her love for Hindi language, ...
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Said@Duke: University of Delhi Professor Rekha Sethi on Women Poets Writing in Hindi

The Duke India Initiative and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies jointly organized the talk this week, "Words and Silences A Discussion on Contemporary Women Poets in Hindi." Guest speaker Rekha Sethi, ...
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‘Perennial’ : This translated selection of poems provides a window to contemporary Hindi poetry

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...
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Literary history: Maulana Daud’s ‘Candayan’ and the beginnings of writing and literature in Hindi

A growing number of historians of Hindi literature believe that the Hindi literary tradition begins with the invention of the Sufi romance and its first known example, the Candāyan (1379 CE) of ...