Muse India
This is an old draft that was waiting to be converted into a post. Muse India is a quarterly literary journal that I discovered only recently. I love the regular focus on the literature of a different region. So far they have covered Marathi poetry and Kannada, Kashmiri, Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya and modern Hindi literature.
Here’s Bhisham Sahni in conversation with Sukrita Paul Kumar:
Many people were for the struggle for freedom but the lower middle class people had a role peculiar of their own. They had no personal ambitions. They did not have any ambitions of becoming leaders even during the freedom period or after the freedom was won. They came from backgrounds which was poor. I think of a carpenter, a Sardarji, who was not very healthy. His main job used to be that whenever a jalsa of the Congress was organised before freedom, he was to sing songs with his harmonium and attract the audience. He was neither a singer nor anybody. He could only say witty things and make people laugh. The man had been to jail several times. He was ill and poor and yet there was a certain commitment…Go browse.
