Tag: Nalin Verma
Nalin Verma and the Preservation of Bihar’s Oral Traditions
Nalin Verma has played a vital role in preserving Bihar's rich folklore by translating its oral storytelling traditions into accessible English. Blending journalism with literary sensitivity, his work safeguards the state's cultural memory, ethical values and folk imagination, ensuring Bihar's timeless narratives continue to inspire readers across generations and geographical boundaries
The Politics of Memory and Desire in Nalin Verma’s Sacred Unions and Other Stories
In Sacred Unions and Other Stories, Nalin Verma crafts unforgettable tales of love, memory, faith, and rural transformation, turning ordinary lives of Purvanchal into emotionally resonant literary experiences
From Lalu’s Lalooland to Gorakhnath’s Legacy: Nalin Verma Tells India’s Untold Stories
A good reporter can smell a story from a distance. A great one writes it with a flair that lingers long after the print...
The Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar revives childhood memories
As a kid I grew up listening to tales my maternal grandma would tell us at night as we slept under the open sky...
Open Letter to My Muslim Friends– “Do not build mosque on the 5 acres land”
My dear Muslim friends,
Honour the Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya. Let the Ram temple come up at the place where the Babri mosque stood...
‘The ruling class has always manipulated law and jurisprudence to criminalise the subaltern people’
‘Author’ Lalu Prasad Yadav — currently languishing in the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi — considers himself in the league of Nelson Mandela,...