Our Bones in Your Throat by Megha Rao: A YA Book That Needed a Better Editor
Prakruti Maniar reviews Our Bones in Your Throat by Megha Rao (published by Simon & Schuster India, 2024). Our Bones in Your Throat is Megha
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Prakruti Maniar reviews Our Bones in Your Throat by Megha Rao (published by Simon & Schuster India, 2024). Our Bones in Your Throat is Megha
From July onwards, the Purple Pencil Project started a new wing in its community initiatives: a book club. More specifically, for the time being, a
Neha Kirpal reviews ZardoZi: Stitched with Love by Debasmita Dasgupta (published by Harper Children’s, 2024). ZardoZi: Stitched with Love by London-based award-winning graphic novelist, film producer
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If you’ve ever searched for it, you’d quickly notice the scarcity of Indian chess books. Besides Vishwanathan Anand’s excellent memoir, they are rarer to find
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Looking for the best books on Indian athletics and Indian athletes? You’re in the right place. Many have rued the lack of sporting culture in
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