International Conference on O.V. Vijayan's Legacy at Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre for Comparative Literature hosted a two-day international conference titled 'Khasak and Beyond: The Literary World of O.V. Vijayan' in January 2026. Scholars from India, Germany, France, and the United States presented papers examining Vijayan's influence on Indian modernism, the philosophical underpinnings of Khasakkinte Itihasam, and the challenges of translating his distinctive Malayalam prose into European languages. Prof. Meena T. Pillai delivered the keynote address, drawing connections between Vijayan's narrative technique and the magical realist tradition.