Reviving India’s National Mission for Manuscripts
India is revitalizing the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) under the Ministry of Culture to preserve ancient texts. A new National Manuscripts Authority is proposed…
Literature in India
India’s First Writers’ Village
India’s first Writers’ Village, known as Lekhak Gaon, was inaugurated near Dehradun by former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. This unique initiative provides a…
Kerala’s Kozhikode – India’s first UNESCO ‘City of Literature’
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UNESCO Recognizes Feminist Utopian Novel Sultana’s Dream
“Sultana’s Dream,” written by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain in 1905, was recently recognized by UNESCO and added to its “Memory of the World” list. This…
Citrasutra
On October 6th, 2023, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) organized the Second Ananda Coomaraswamy Memorial Lecture, an event aimed at commemorating…
Ramalinga Swamy
In recent news, we celebrate the 200th birth anniversary of Ramalinga Swamy, also known as Vallalar. Who Was Ramalinga Swamy? Other Names Ramalinga Swamy is…
Festival of Libraries
The Festival of Libraries, a grand celebration promoting the development and digitization of libraries, was recently inaugurated by the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu,…
