The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur is organising Akshar - a first of its kind literary festival from October 14 to 16.It is being jointly organised by the Rajbhasha Prakoshth, the Shivani Centre for the Nurture and Re-Integration .
Kanpur : In a path-breaking initiative, IIT Kanpur announced setting up of a Centre aimed at a seamless integration of students from Hindi and Other Indian Languages (OILs) background in the socio-academic milieu of the prestigious institute.In
Book Extract | A Homage to Shantiniketan Ashram and Its Legendary Gurus
An excerpt from Gaura Pant Shivani âs book Amader Shantiniketan .
Shantiniketan Ashram. Photo: Soumen Ray/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (Penguin Random House India, 2021), translated into English by Ira Pande.
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Gurudev was very fond of outdoor celebrations. A full moon, especially in spring, when the Ashram was awash with a silvery light, was like a personal invitation from Mother Nature to us Ashramites. A notice would come round that we should all assemble at a particular spot in the Ashram that night. And lo and behold, all of us would bolt down an early dinner and head there to see what new treat awaited us. Among the assembly would be our maid, Khudu, and the kitchen boy, Nagendra, his dark, lithe body almost gleaming in that light.
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With a house and four children to look after, prolific Hindi writer Gaura Pant, or Shivani, didn’t have the time for authorly pretensions or indulgences. She sourced stationery from the children’s school supplies, using old notebooks to pen down first drafts, writing in longhand, and sending the finished manuscript off to her editor in a registered envelope. Writing in the 1960s and 70s, she filled the empty pages of these notebooks with stories revolving primarily around strong female protagonists navigating life in a deeply patriarchal Indian society. And as happens in real life, a part of these characters’ l