Hemang Ashwinkumar is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor and critic working in Gujarati and English. His writing have been widely translated, and his English translations include ‘Vultures’, ‘Fear and Other Stories’ and ‘The Dawn of Life’.
An excerpt from Chandu Maheria’s memoir, reflecting on growing up in Ahmedabad’s working-class chawls and the place of Mohandas K Gandhi in Dalit life and political thought
An unsung giant of Gujarati literature, Dalpat Chauhan has fought to reclaim a Dalit history, identity and idiom that resist Gujarat’s exclusivist politics and pride
On the precipice of generalisations, ‘The Gujaratis’ exposes a shameful underside of Gujarati pride, Gujarat’s conflicted cultural landscape, and the community’s broader moral and political failings
