POETRY
Kavita Sabha
Poetry across the current journal, historic issues, collected verse and recorded Videha programmes.
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.
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.
01शिशु उत्सव
Kids · Shishu Utsav
Illustrated novels, stories, quizzes and learning resources for children and young readers.
Preview · 37 illustrated novels and wider children’s shelvesOpen established Videha programme ↗ 02स्त्री-कोणाStrī-Koṇa
Poetry, prose, criticism and archived voices from the Videha women’s corner.
Preview · women’s writing within the continuing periodical archiveOpen established Videha programme ↗ 03विदेह ई-लर्निङ्गVideha E-learning
Quizzes, dictionaries, language aids and structured study paths within Videha.
Preview · self-learning and classroom pathwaysOpen established Videha programme ↗ 04दृश्य-श्रव्य नाट्य उत्सवDṛśya–Śravya Nāṭya Utsav
Audio, video, theatre, narration and accessible performance collections.
Preview · recorded performance and audio-visual archivesOpen established Videha 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.
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.
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
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 ↗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.