I.I.T. Professor Writing a Novel in Hindi !

Not many Engineering students know that Prof. Wagish Shukla, who teaches Mathematics at IIT Delhi is also an Indologist, a Sanskrit and Persian scholar par excellence, a devoted Ghalib and Bedil researcher and a Hindi novelist! For years, he has been writing a novel called Atha Yagyavalkyopakhyan. I am happy to share with you that Prof. Wagish Shukla has provided excerpts from latest developments in this project for Pratilipi, a bilingual literary magazine that I edit. Find time to read this wonderful extract in which Indian narrative devices meet the crime thriller to create an exciting new genre.

Pratilipi 2, out now

(http://www.pratilipi.in/)
Pratilipi is an online, bilingual (Hindi/English), literary magazine - possibly India's first. It is, for the time being, a completely non-commercial venture running on the editors' investments and on the works of like-minded contributors. It aims to provide space for conversation and debate between diverse sorts of writing and writers.

Contributors to the second issue include, among others: Uday Prakash, Ann Jäderlund, Staffan Söderblom, Wagish Shukla, Badri Narayan, Rustam (Singh), Malayaj, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Sampurna Chattarji, Teji Grover, Sara Rai, Sangeeta Gundecha, Udayan Vajpeyi, Chandrahas Choudhury, Purushottam Agrawal, Mangalesh Dabral, K.V.K. Murthy, Sheen Kaaf Nizam, H.S. Shiva Prakash, Sameer Rawal, Vivek Narayanan, Annie Zaidi and Madan Meena.

Giriraj Kiradoo & Rahul Soni (Editors)Shiv Kumar Gandhi(Art Editor)