Kids · Shishu Utsav
Illustrated novels, stories, quizzes and learning resources for children and young readers.
Preview · 37 illustrated novels and wider children’s shelvesVIDEHA 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.
MEET THE WRITERS · THE VIDEHA LITERARY ATLAS
Preeti Thakur & Gajendra Thakur
प्रीति ठाकुर आ गजेन्द्र ठाकुर
Picture stories, literature, translation and manuscript archives. Follow the works into an English criticism reading room.
ONE FESTIVAL · FOUR DOORS
Choose a way in
Everything else is a path within these four spaces.
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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.
INSTITUTIONAL PORTALS
Four living Videha programmes
Wings are continuing Videha programme portals. The Festival Stages below are the finer subject index that connects books, issues, performances and these wings.
Strī-Koṇa
Poetry, prose, criticism and archived voices from the Videha women’s corner.
Preview · women’s writing within the continuing periodical archiveVideha E-learning
Quizzes, dictionaries, language aids and structured study paths within Videha.
Preview · self-learning and classroom pathwaysDṛśya–Śravya Nāṭya Utsav
Audio, video, theatre, narration and accessible performance collections.
Preview · recorded performance and audio-visual archivesBOOK 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.
VIDEHA POTHI & GITHUB CATALOGUE
Browse the verified shelf three ways
Use the current listing, arrange titles bookwise, or gather records authorwise. Search and source filters work in every view.
Every verified source record is included below. Choose a source, search, or keep selecting “Show more books” to reach the complete catalogue.
Open the complete static catalogue · 1,171 Pothi + 368 GitHub records →
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
The whole-festival search above already queries issue numbers, titles, dates and years. These controls narrow only the periodical desk shown below.
SUBJECT INDEX WITHIN THE FOUR WINGS
Six source-led Festival Stages
Stages are not a second set of institutions or a fictional schedule. They are the finer index connecting verified Videha books, issues, media and programme wings by subject.
POETRY
Kavita Sabha
Poetry across the current journal, historic issues, collected verse and recorded Videha programmes.
THEATRE
Rangmanch
Named performance videos, drama playlists, theatre organisations, scripts and criticism.
YOUNG READERS
Shishu Utsav
Thirty-seven illustrated novels, stories, quizzes and learning material for younger readers.
TRANSLATION
Anuvad Manch
Sanskrit philosophical texts, multilingual literary translation and movement between Maithili and English.
CRITICISM
Samiksha Kaksh
Author criticism, literary historiography, forgotten writers and arguments about the Maithili canon.
PUBLIC MEMORY
Archive Assembly
Issue-by-issue discovery across 447 archived Videha issues and 37 Sadeha compilations.
RANGMANCH · PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE
Watch, read and follow Maithili theatre
Named records are carried from Videha’s Audio/Video index. Playlists and individual performances play here; scripts, criticism and theatre organisations open at their supplied sources.
Now selected: Videha Documentary / Drama playlist
27 source-linked records shown
SAMIKSHA KAKSH · PLAYABLE ARCHIVE
Videha Discussion & Criticism
Twelve verified Internet Archive audio/video collections. Choose a part, then select an item within the player.
Open Part 1 on Internet Archive ↗Playing collection: Part 1 of 12
WORLD FESTIVAL EXCHANGE · OPEN LISTENING & VIEWING
Seven windows beyond Videha
A curated comparative shelf of freely reachable recordings and clearly dated forthcoming programmes from official festivals, libraries and cultural institutions. Follow a genre, then return to Videha with new questions.
36 verified programme doors · 28 open archives and media collections · 7 forthcoming programmes · 1 now streaming
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SHISHU UTSAV · YOUNG READERS
Stories, authors and illustration
Read-alouds, author workshops and the international craft of children’s books.
Forthcoming · 1 October 2026Young Poets Takeover · National Poetry DayFree online Workshop and open mic for ages 14–25 · 5–7 pm UK time.
BookTrust Virtual Author Workshop LibraryVideo Author and illustrator talks for schools and young readers.
Michael Rosen · BookTrustVideo Storytelling, poetry and live-session recordings.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair TVVideo Picturebooks, illustrators, publishing and multilingual reading.
National Book Festival · Young ReadersVideo archive Author conversations and children’s literature sessions.
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STRĪ-KOṆA · WOMEN WRITERS
Voice, authorship and equality
Women’s books, criticism, public conversation and global festival memory.
Forthcoming · 5–7 March 2027WOW London 2027London · ticketed Writers, activists and performers; the official programme identifies accessible and family-friendly elements.
WOW · Women of the World ArchiveFestival archive Programmes from six continents, including South Asia.
Women’s Prize · BookshelfieAudio Writers and guests discuss books by women that shaped them.
The Critic and Her PublicsAudio + transcript Women critics discuss method and close reading.
WOW · Shameless! Festival RecordingsCaptioned video Talks, performance, poetry and activism.
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KAVITA SABHA · POETRY
Poets in their own voices
Recorded readings, festival performance, interviews and the criticism of poetry.
Forthcoming · 24 October 2026Forward Prizes for Poetry CeremonyFree livestream Twenty poets perform · speech-to-text transcription · 7 pm UK time.
The Poetry ArchiveAudio archive Poets reading their own work, preserved free of charge.
Poetry Foundation PodcastsAudio Daily poems, interviews, magazine discussion and lectures.
Poetry International Festival Archive TourAudio + video Multilingual festival readings with translations.
Poetry LecturesAudio Poets, scholars and critics in recorded talks.
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RANGMANCH · THEATRE
Performance across languages
Open performance archives, global adaptations, theatre-making and backstage knowledge.
Now streaming · 14–19 September 2026Roma Heroes International Theater FestivalFree online A one-time retrospective of seven recorded performances, with English subtitles.
Forthcoming · 18–20 September 2026Puppets in the Green MountainsFree online Three festival panel discussions on literature, local traditions, history and social change.
HowlRound TVOpen video archive Global theatre performances and conversations.
MIT Global ShakespearesVideo archive International productions, metadata and study material.
National Theatre VideosVideo Official performance extracts, craft and backstage programmes.
Shakespeare’s Globe VideosVideo Official talks, performance material and learning programmes.
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SAMIKSHA KAKSH · CRITICISM
Review, argument and close reading
Long-form literary discussion, critics speaking about method and archives of debate.
Forthcoming · 7–28 October 2026The Boys’ Stories · Daniel MendelsohnOnline · booking required Four critical seminars on Dante, Petrarch and Goethe.
London Review of Books PodcastsAudio Literary criticism, bookshop conversations and readings.
New York Review · Events ArchiveEvents Critics, translators and writers in public discussion.
Close ReadingsAudio Guided discussion of major works and traditions.
Poetry Foundation · Critical LecturesAudio Scholars and critics on poetry and connected arts.
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ANUVAD MANCH · TRANSLATION
Languages meeting languages
Translated literature, bilingual readings and the translator’s intellectual craft.
Forthcoming · 21–24 October 2026ALTA49 · Give and TakePortland · ticketed Literary-translation panels and bilingual readings; in person only, with no recording promised.
Words Without Borders EventsEvents + video International authors, translators and critics.
World in VerseMultilingual event International poetry read with its translations.
ALTA Conference & EventsProgramme Literary translators, bilingual readings and public panels.
ALTA Translation ResourcesResources Recorded-event index and professional translation guides.
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ARCHIVE ASSEMBLY · LITERARY FESTIVALS
Public conversations across continents
Large, durable archives of writers, books and ideas from established literary festivals.
Forthcoming · 28 October–1 November 2026Toronto International Festival of AuthorsToronto · ticketed More than 100 author conversations, readings, performances and masterclasses.
Library of Congress National Book FestivalVideo archive Twenty-five years of authors, poets and storytellers.
JLF InternationalVideo Official Jaipur Literature Festival conversations worldwide.
Sydney Writers’ Festival PodcastsAudio Recorded conversations from previous festivals.
Toronto Festival of Authors PodcastsAudio archive International authors and four decades of festival memory.
VIDEHA MEDIA NETWORK
Four verified playlist collections
These are the supplied official Videha and Gajendra Thakur YouTube destinations. Each opens its complete playlist page, without assigning unverified individual videos to a programme.
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Videha eJournal
Videha’s general audio, video and literary programme playlists.
Open playlists ↗ 02Videha E-learning
Playlist doorway for learning, classroom and guided-study media.
Open playlists ↗ 03Gajendra Thakur
Gajendra Thakur’s supplied YouTube playlist collection.
Open playlists ↗ 04Accessible Videha
Accessible audio-visual and assistive programme playlists.
Open playlists ↗Accessibility registers: Archive/PDF remediation · Media captions & transcripts · WCAG 2.2 AA manual audit protocol
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.
The persistent Translate and Assistive Tech controls remain in the header; this reading-room button starts narration. Browser speech support varies.
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. V.L.F. is the compact monogram; Videha Literature Festival remains the full primary name.