The 2019 edition of the Valley of Words was privileged to host Keki N Daruwalla – India’s foremost poet and writer. By this time, he had received the...

Sonali Raje’s trilogy, The Empress of Indraprastha, offers a feminist and ecological retelling of the Mahabharata, focusing on Draupadi’s polyandrous...

Set in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch, Arunava Sinha’s A Touch of Salt is a blend of history, politics, and social struggles; it explores the legacy of the...

Truth/Untruth — Anjum Katyal’s outstanding translation of Mahashweta Devi’s thrilling novella Satya/Asatya — offers a glimpse of the urban life in the...

The third edition of Valley of Words at Daly College saw over 300 students engage in deep conversations with Shabnam Minwala, Devika Cariapa, Linthoi...

As a native, Amit Srivastava, in his book Siraj-E-Dil Jaunpur, provides a gripping account of the history, culture, and identity of the city and its...

By exploring elemental questions surrounding life, happiness, and death with remarkable clarity, Manoj Dwivedi’s deeply philosophical book, Decode...

On the occasion of National Librarians’ Day on August 12, the Doon Library and Resource Centre honoured the pioneering efforts of ‘the accidental...

Leading up to the eighth edition of Dehradun-based, pan-India Valley of Words in November, multiple events and collaborations spanning literature,...

Pawan Kumar Mishra’s novella, Happytual, distinguishes inner peace and contentment from external pursuit of possessions in the process of creatively...

Set in the 16th-century Lahore, ‘The Sufi’s Nightingale’ by Sarbpreet Singh is a fictionalised retelling of mystic poet Shah Hussain and Madho...

'Sri Aurobindo' by Roshen Dalal and 'Bondhu' by Kunal Sen are two unputdownable biographies among the Valley of Words’ shortlist for best non-fiction...