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Amphan’s effect on publishing: How to Help

  • by Jessica Joshi
  • 31 May
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The publishing industry was going through a tough time already with the lockdown, and it has to now deal with Amphan’s effect..
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In Conversation with: Jane Borges

  • by Jessica Joshi
  • 29 May
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We caught up with author Jane Borges, whose debut fiction novel Bombay Balchão released in 2019, captures the life and role of..
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Bombay Balchão by Jane Borges

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 29 May
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Undoutedly the first thing that attracts you about Bombay Balchão is its cover – filled with colour, and people – like the..
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In Custody by Anita Desai

  • by Ilona Dam
  • 26 May
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In Custody is a Booker Prize shortlisted novel, by Indian American author, Anita Desai. Plot Summary The story is set partially in..
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Greatest Kashmiri Folk Tales By Onaiza Drabu

  • by Ilona Dam
  • 22 May
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Remember when we passed our evenings lying on Grandma’s lap, listening to the tales from Panchatantra? Grandpa’s animated voice as he would..
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Her Stories 20th Century Bengali Women Writers

  • by Divya Shankar
  • 22 May
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Her Stories is a set of eight stories by eight eminent Bengali women writers translated by Sanjukta Dasgupta. It is a collection..
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Woman to Woman, Stories by Madhulika Liddle

  • by Savitha Vaidyanathan
  • 22 May
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Woman to Woman Stories by Madhulika Liddle is a collection of a dozen short stories about women. The cover is a minimalistic..
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Ten novellas to kickstart that reading habit

  • by Sneha Pathak
  • 22 May
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Situated between a sprint and a marathon, novellas are the perfect remedy for our shortening attention spans. Longer than a short story,..
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Shadow Men by Bijoya Sawian

  • by Ayushi Mona
  • 21 May
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Shadow Men by Bijoya Sawian, is a combination of a novella and two short stories, published by Speaking Tiger books. It is..
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The Little Book of Everything by Ruskin Bond

  • by Dhivya Balaji
  • 20 May
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The Little Book of Everything by Ruskin Bond would read well even if they opened on a random page, and catch your..
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