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Dubai, UAE — The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host a session on A Tilt in Time — Partition and Pakistan: A Mid-Century Memoir, the newly released translation of Qurratulain Hyder’s Kar-e Jahan Daraz Hai (Women Unlimited, 2026), in conversation with its translator, Professor Fatima Rizvi. The session airs...
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Sonakshi Srivastava is a senior writing fellow (ELT) at Ashoka University, the translations editor at Usawa Literary Review, and an educational arm assistant at Asymptote. Her writings have generously been supported by the PEN English x SALT Translation Grant, 2024 ASLE Translation Grant, Poetry HUES Foundation, Director’s Fellowship (Martha’s...
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Dubai, UAE — The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host “Notes on Decolonization in a Time of Genocide,” an online fireside chat between writer, editor and filmmaker Bhakti Shringarpure and scholar and editor Anthony Alessandrini. The conversation airs at the festival’s seventh edition, August 13–15, 2026, on Ananke’s YouTube...
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Dubai, UAE — The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host “Listening When The Subaltern Speaks,” an online panel presented by Usawa Literary Review, at the festival’s seventh edition, airing August 13–15, 2026 on Ananke’s YouTube channel and social media platforms. Anchored in the belief that “literary publishing from the...
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What does resistance mean in a world with a climate of hate and fear? For many, humanity is resilience, and speaking truth—not just to power—is subversion. Talking about language as resistance, Ananke Literature Festival’s guest speaker Varsha Tiwary shares her thoughts—a teaser leading up to the main digital event...
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Ananke, the Global South’s celebrated media and development platform, announced the speaker lineup and collaborators for the seventh edition of its annual festival, now rebranded as the Ananke Literature Festival. Taking place fully online under the theme Fault Lines: An Unmasking, the festival brings together some of the most...
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Contemporary fiction by women is frequently forced into false binaries. Books centred on emotional life are often dismissed as soft, while stories concerned with ambition, violence, or sociopolitical rupture are granted greater literary seriousness. Women writers, particularly from the Global South, continue to navigate a literary culture that demands...
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Sudha Subramanian’s The Invisible Lines (Vishwakarma Publications, 2026) is a deeply introspective exploration of desire, regret, loneliness, and the courage it takes to reclaim one’s life when society assumes that the time for reinvention has already passed. Tender yet unsettling, elegant yet emotionally raw, the novel dismantles conventional narratives...
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Ananke Literature Festival is proud to unveil the new official logo for its 2026 edition, marking another significant chapter in the festival’s continuing journey of fostering dialogue, dissent, creativity, and critical thought. The refreshed visual identity reflects the evolving spirit of the festival while remaining rooted in Ananke’s longstanding...
Dubai, UAE — The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host a session on A Tilt in Time — Partition and Pakistan: A Mid-Century Memoir, the newly released translation of Qurratulain Hyder’s Kar-e Jahan Daraz Hai (Women Unlimited, 2026), in conversation with its translator, Professor Fatima Rizvi. The session airs...
Sonakshi Srivastava is a senior writing fellow (ELT) at Ashoka University, the translations editor at Usawa Literary Review, and an educational arm assistant at Asymptote. Her writings have generously been supported by the PEN English x SALT Translation Grant, 2024 ASLE Translation Grant, Poetry HUES Foundation, Director’s Fellowship (Martha’s...
Dubai, UAE — The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host “Notes on Decolonization in a Time of Genocide,” an online fireside chat between writer, editor and filmmaker Bhakti Shringarpure and scholar and editor Anthony Alessandrini. The conversation airs at the festival’s seventh edition, August 13–15, 2026, on Ananke’s YouTube...
Dubai, UAE — The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host “Listening When The Subaltern Speaks,” an online panel presented by Usawa Literary Review, at the festival’s seventh edition, airing August 13–15, 2026 on Ananke’s YouTube channel and social media platforms. Anchored in the belief that “literary publishing from the...
What does resistance mean in a world with a climate of hate and fear? For many, humanity is resilience, and speaking truth—not just to power—is subversion. Talking about language as resistance, Ananke Literature Festival’s guest speaker Varsha Tiwary shares her thoughts—a teaser leading up to the main digital event...
Ananke, the Global South’s celebrated media and development platform, announced the speaker lineup and collaborators for the seventh edition of its annual festival, now rebranded as the Ananke Literature Festival. Taking place fully online under the theme Fault Lines: An Unmasking, the festival brings together some of the most...
Contemporary fiction by women is frequently forced into false binaries. Books centred on emotional life are often dismissed as soft, while stories concerned with ambition, violence, or sociopolitical rupture are granted greater literary seriousness. Women writers, particularly from the Global South, continue to navigate a literary culture that demands...
Sudha Subramanian’s The Invisible Lines (Vishwakarma Publications, 2026) is a deeply introspective exploration of desire, regret, loneliness, and the courage it takes to reclaim one’s life when society assumes that the time for reinvention has already passed. Tender yet unsettling, elegant yet emotionally raw, the novel dismantles conventional narratives...
