मुझे आज भी याद है, कक्षा पाँच की हिंदी की वो क्लास जिसमे उमाशंकर माटसाब ने कहा की चलो आज निबंध करेंगे, अपनी कॉपी पर गाय के बारे में जो जानते हो लिखो।मैंने, पहली पंक्ति लिखी,“गाय एक चौपाया जानवर है।”"उसके दो सींग, दो कान, एक मुँह (थूथून) , एक बड़ा...

Walk into any second-hand bookstore in India, and you’ll find them, names you might have heard once in passing, or not at all; writers who built our literary foundations but now linger in the quiet corners of dusty shelves.Once celebrated, now forgotten : they are not merely absent from reading...

In Indian literature, words do more than tell stories sometimes, they decide which stories survive. One such word is “dialect.”At first glance, it appears harmless, a neutral linguistic category. But, beneath it lies a subtle hierarchy, a centuries-old politics of recognition and invisibility.Why is Bhojpuri, with nearly 50 million speakers,...