Top 10 Free books on Kindle Unlimited

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Kindle, Amazon, ebooks, print books: the litereary world it seems will never stop debating about the pros and cons of each. As the world battles COVID-19, though, it seems we have a temporary winner. Ebooks are now our saviours in isolation, so I headed find free books on Kindle Unlimited and found these ten gems. […]

Timeless Tales from Marwar by Vijaydan Detha

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Translated from Rajasthani by Vishes Kothari Timeless Tales from Marwar is a delightful collection of 17 short stories translated by Vishes Kothari from Vijaydan Detha’s Batan Ri Phulwari. They are steeped in the oral storytelling tradition and have belonged to the people for generations.  And yet, as we read these tales, they seem to be […]

#InsideEdge: In Conversation with Sridhar Balan

Who are the key Indian publishers? What does the Indian publishing industry look like on the inside; from the eyes of professionals like editors, marketing executives, sales managers, book cover designers? Understanding this can tell us a lot about how to write a book to suit the demands of Indian publishing, how to approach Indian […]

Award-winning Indian Books of 2019

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There are the really big book awards. We know the Booker prize, we know the Nobel, the Pulitzer. Closer home, any list of award-winning Indian books will include there’s the glamourous JCB, and to some extent the DSC and the Sahitya Akademi awards. But India, with its many languages, has a multitude of smaller awards […]

Ismat: Her Life, Her Times

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Lihaaf was the first Ismat Chughtai story I read, back in my first year of college. I was 18, bright-eyed with curiosity and excitement, in a new city, far from home. Lihaaf stood out and became my favourite short story from our “Indian writing in English” course, which featured such names as Tagore to Amitav […]