VIDEHA MAITHILI eJOURNAL · ISSN 2229-547X
A festival where an archive becomes a meeting place.
Enter through books, periodicals, performance and ideas. Explore Gajendra Thakur’s cumulative works alongside the complete Videha and Sadeha issue archive—without losing the sources behind them.
ONE FESTIVAL · FOUR DOORS
Choose a way in
Everything else is a path within these four spaces.
01
Book pavilion
Authored, edited and translated works; cumulative series and independent books.
02Periodical archive
Videha issues 1–447 plus the current issue, and Sadeha 1–37.
03Festival stages
Poetry, theatre, children’s literature, criticism, translation and public thought.
04Reading room
Listen, translate, enlarge, filter and follow verified publication links.
VIDEHA FESTIVAL WINGS
Four living programmes
Each doorway opens the corresponding programme in the established Videha website.
01शिशु उत्सव
Kids · Shishu Utsav
Children’s and young readers’ literature from the Videha ecosystem.
Enter the programme ↗ 02स्त्री-कोणाStrī-Koṇa
A dedicated doorway to women’s writing and the Videha women’s corner.
Enter the programme ↗ 03विदेह ई-लर्निङ्गVideha E-learning
Learning resources and structured study paths within Videha.
Enter the programme ↗ 04दृश्य-श्रव्य नाट्य उत्सवDṛśya–Śravya Nāṭya Utsav
Audio, video, theatre, narration and accessible performance collections.
Enter the programme ↗BOOK PAVILION
Gajendra Thakur’s cumulative shelf
Series are expanded into individually discoverable volumes, then joined with the books and study editions already published across the Videha GitHub repositories.
THE WIDER SHELF
Videha Pothi
The festival also opens onto the larger multi-author Videha book archive: poetry, fiction, criticism, reference works, children’s literature and translations.
Browse the complete Pothi catalogue ↗PERIODICAL ARCHIVE
Every issue, one searchable desk
The issue records and dates come from the Videha archive manifest. All 485 preserved files open from the dedicated Videha–Sadeha GitHub repository.
2008 → presentA living, twice-monthly Maithili record
FESTIVAL STAGES
Not a fictional schedule—a set of source-led programmes
No invented dates or speakers. These stages organize real Videha collections for reading, teaching and future live programming.
ACCESSIBLE READING ROOM
Read in the way that works for you.
Select any passage on this page and use Listen. Translate the English interface into one of 41 languages through Google Translate. Reading controls increase size, spacing and contrast without changing the archive.
Browser speech support varies. Translation opens Google Translate in a new tab so the original English remains available.
EDITORIAL IDENTITY
Videha is the ground beneath the festival.
© Gajendra Thakur, Editor, Videha Maithili eJournal, ISSN 2229-547X. This independent festival interface brings together books, translations, periodicals, criticism, theatre and research created or preserved within the Videha ecosystem.