HimVani
Shimla: On the occasion of 125th birth year of popular Hindi writer Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, a special screening of the film Usne Kaha Tha based on one of his popular stories would be held here on July 19, in the capital city of Himachal Pradesh.
Legendary filmmaker, Bimal Roy made the film in 1960. The story [...]

हिमवाणी
एस आर हरनोट की बहुचर्चित कहानी ‘बिल्लियां बतियाती है‘, हिन्दी की कालजयी कहानियों में शामिल की गई है। ‘हिन्दी की कालजयी कहानियां’ का पांच खंडों में साहित्य अकादमी, दिल्ली द्वारा प्रकाशन किया जा रहा है जिसका संपादन प्रख्यात लेखक स्व. कमलेश्वर ने किया है।
उन्होंने इस कहानी का चयन अकादेमी की इस महत्वपूर्ण व वृहद् योजना [...]

By: HimVani
साहित्य अकादेमी, दिल्ली ने शुक्रवार 7 मार्च, 2008 को सांय 6 बजे अपने विशिष्ट कथासंधि कार्यक्रम में सुपरिचित हिन्दी कथाकार एस. आर. हरनोट के एकल कथा-पाठ का अपने सभागार रवीन्द्र भवन, नई दिल्ली में आयोजन किया जिसमें हरनोट ने अपनी बहुचर्चित तीन कहानियों-मोबाइल, नदी गायब है और मां पढ़ती है का पाठ किया। [...]

Kanwar Dinesh Singh has published ten poetry collections in English: Reveries Incessant (1993), Implosions (1996), Asides (1996), Thinking Aloud (1999), The Theophany (1999), House Arrest (2000), Deuce: Haiku Poems (2001: in collaboration with Patricia Prime of New Zealand), The Flow of Soul (2002), Rainbows, Moonbows and Fog (2002), and Scintillations: The Junctures of Satori (2003). [...]

By: Surekha Dhaleta
Akkad bakkad bambe po, assi nabbe poore sau…. The equivalent to this in Pahari (I’m familiar with the Upper Shimla region only) is Idki bidki danda didki, taklo bhai ree botia, suno roopo jotey…
A few months back, noted author and veteran journalist, Khushwant Singh, delved upon such nonsensical verses in India in his [...]

By: Vividhaditya

Dressed in their best: Gaddans flaunt their jewellery
Bharmour! The crown of dawn. The land of gaddis - a nomadic tribe known for its large family. A family of 200 to 1000 members of which 5 to 8 per cent are human beings and the rest consist of sheep, rams and goats. Not to [...]

हिमवाणी

एस आर हरनोट
शिमलाः जानेमाने लेखक एस आर हरनोट को उनके बहुचर्चित कहानी संग्रह ‘दारोश तथा अन्य कहानियां’ के लिए वर्ष 2003-04 का राज्य अकादमी पुरस्कार प्रदान किया गया है। यह पुरस्कार हरनोट को हिन्दी कहानी-उपन्यास-नाटक वर्ग में दिया गया है। हरनोट के इस कहानी संग्रह को वर्ष 2003 में अन्तरराष्ट्रीय इन्दुशर्मा कथा संम्मान (लंदन) भी [...]

By: Usha Bande
A decade or so ago to counter the threat of the divisive forces, a catchy slogan on buses and public places read “from Kashmir to Kanyaumari India is one”. Incidentally, around the same time, V S Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now (1991) was released, visualising a strong and unified India despite its [...]

Pics and write-up: Saroj Thakur

A plate full of khichri laden with ghee

Lohri day brings to my mind so many memories, each trying to take centrestage relegating others backstage! Each impression has been an eye opener for me and has made me learn so many lessons of life. Some pertain to my childhood — Steaming hot [...]

By: VIVIDHADITYA
Did my lady ever
Kiss thee
O! Rhododendron?
That flowers thine
Bloom sweet nectar red.
- Vividhaditya

As the cold March out, and March in the flowers, woken from hibernation – red bloom the Himalayas with the cosmic Buraas.
Is it a bride decked in red or are these the – Juuini raa aahoo? Back in time, and in their prime, [...]