Editor’s Picks is our monthly, curated list of best books to read. I scout far and wide, scanning publishing house catalogues across fiction categories...
Sharanya Manivannan’s Incantations over Water: A graphic novel that submerges into the deep blue oceans of diasporic longing and folklore. Meet Ila – a...
Purple Pencil Project’s Amritesh Mukherjee caught up with Makarand Paranjpe at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022, to talk about his latest, JNU. Excerpts. Please...
Edited Excerpts from an interview with author Simran Dhir. “And as for Delhi, the city continues to blossom with bouquets of bright bougainvillea, champa...
Amit Majmudar is a novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist. His works include Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf/Penguin Random...
Prakruti Maniar interviewed A.J. Thomas, one of the most prolific literateurs of our time. His work with poetry, translation, and editing, spanning 40 years,...
Arunava Sinha, winner of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022, spoke to us about being a translation practionery,...
Mamta Kalia, who is one of the speakers at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022, spoke to Prakruti Maniar about Hindi Literature, observing the trends...
Archana Mirajkar is a communication specialist, author, and translator from Marathi to English. Her original play ‘Hello, Kon?’ was critically acclaimed. Her latest book,...
Prakruti Maniar speaks to Aditi Maheshwari-Goyal, who heads the Department of Copyrights and Translation at Vani Prakashan and is the Managing Trustee at Vani...
After what seems like a lifetime, on-ground literature festivals are making a slow and cautious comeback. The Jaipir Literature Festival 2022, produced by Teamwork...
Written By Nandini Nayar, Illustrated by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya Right from the time of birth, the life of a child situates around two most important...
Are you confused about how to organize your book shelf? Even though library science has been refined over hundreds of years, personal libraries continue...
Prakruti Maniar speaks to Urvashi Butalia, Founder of Zubaan Books, over email about the strategies and considerations involved in managing an independent press, the...
The Enchantress of Florence, published in 2008, is Salman Rushdie’s most researched novel. It includes Indian, Persian, and Florentine history at large. In the...
Aranyaka is a mythographic tale re-written through a feminist lens, weaving pre-Vedic concepts with lessons gathered from Aranya. What place does a large woman...
Rita Kothari is a translation theorist, translator, and writer, and a pioneer of bringing the spotlight to Gujarati and Sindhi stories through her work. Purple Pencil Project...
Prarthana Banikya speaks to Purple Pencil Project about the magazine inspired by the eight states– Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura– of...
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain is a must-read for fans of Manto, Chughtai, and Partition Literature I discovered Partition literature long...
