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The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

  • by Zoeb Matin
  • 30 March
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Bombay Penned And Painted On An Epic Canvas Twenty years ago, I discovered, in my knee-high boyhood, that Bombay, as we had..
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Swami and Friends by RK Narayan

  • by Zoeb Matin
  • 23 March
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One of my most cherished memories of childhood is when we used to have our school exams. Everybody, I think, can relate..
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Indian historical fiction: Must-read novels

  • by Sneha Pathak
  • 22 March
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“Fiction is the lie which tells the truth” History has always held an inexplicable sway over the reader. The far off time..
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Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali

  • by Sneha Pathak
  • 17 March
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Bringing back a slice of the past Twilight in Delhi is the story of Delhi, of a particular moment in the long..
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Adapted: Ruskin Bond’s Susanna’s Seven Husbands

  • by Zoeb Matin
  • 11 March
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To Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf The Oxford Dictionary defines femme fatale as a ‘very beautiful woman that men find sexually attractive..
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Mosquito and Other Stories by Premendra Mitra

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 4 March
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A must-read classic of Bengali Literature The Context The one joy of curating a website that focuses on Indian literature is also..
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Booked: Literary Events for March 2019

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 1 March
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Looking for book-ish events in March? We looked around, and there is a little of everything happening, from conferences, plays based on..
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