If there is one thing that distinguishes the world of Bangla writing from the literature of the rest of the Subcontinent's languages, it is the abundance of works
Narayan Debnath is a name that will not strike most Southasians as odd, surrounded as we are by friends with names like Shiva, Mohammad and Jesus, a man-god symbiosis
Let children read to be enthralled, not educated.
Kancha Ilaiah burst onto the Indian intellectual scene in 1996, with his now-famous book, Why I Am Not a Hindu. In that work, Ilaiah made a partly autobiographical case
In Afghanistan, radio stories are helping to mend childhoods.
Writing for children entails reaching out for the imaginative and enchanting in one’s own life.
In a short period of time, Pakistan’s publishing industry has made great strides in children’s literature – though there is still a long way to go to ensure quality.
Richard Boyle interviews Grataien Prize winner Prashani Rambukwella, author of Mythil´s Secrets. Since superstition is an important facet in Sri Lanka, Prashani Remvukwella, a Sri Lanka-born writer currently
The story of one publisher’s ‘new’ genre: the Tamil picture book.
How to create storybooks for a plural world.
