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Ep. 24: Chronicling Lives with Vikram Sampath

  • by Rupal Vyas
  • 21 December
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In this episode of India Booked, host Ayushi Mona talks to Vikram Sampath, the best selling author of four acclaimed biographies, ‘Splendours..
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Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

  • by Kritika Agrawal
  • 19 December
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Difficult Daughters by Manju is an intimate and gripping tale of three women, Virmati, Shakuntala and Swarna, set in the pre-independence era..
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Short Story Collections – October 2020

  • by admin
  • 17 December
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Short Story Thursday is a weekly series dedicated to highlighting the short-stories from Indian literature. In October, we focused on the themes..
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Tales from the Himalayas by Priyanka Pradhan

  • by Sneha Pathak
  • 15 December
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Tales from the Himalayas is a collection of seventeen short tales set in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, published by Rupa publications...
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Ep. 23: Raya: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara with Srinivas Reddy

  • by Rupal Vyas
  • 14 December
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RAYA: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara, written by author Srinivas Reddy, is the definitive biography of India’s first truly global leader and one of..
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Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India: Edited by Seema Mustafa

  • by Saurabh Sharma
  • 10 December
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Seema Mustafa’s ‘Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India’ Celebrates the Muslim Women-Led Nationwide Anti-CAA-NRC Protests The nationwide Muslim-women led protests against..
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Ep. 22: Tales from the Himalayas with Priyanka Pradhan

  • by Rupal Vyas
  • 7 December
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In this episode of India Booked, journalist and children’s book writer Priyanka Pradhan takes us on a journey through the Himalayas by..
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Ep. 21: Isolation in the aftermath of Covid-19 with Ishmeet Nagpal

  • by Rupal Vyas
  • 4 December
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In this episode of India Booked, Ayushi Mona discusses with social activist, writer and editor Ishmeet Nagpal, an array of essential topics..
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In Conversation With: Mitra Phukan

  • by Rupal Vyas
  • 1 December
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Mitra Phukan is a writer, translator, columnist and trained classical vocalist who lives in Guwahati, Assam. Her published works include four children’s..
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