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We cannot talk about Indian literature without talking about its rich, impossible-to-capture, and all-fascinating canon of folktales. We bring together folktales from across nooks of India to show you how fascinating, and fundamentally shared, our cultural heritage is. Bonus points, you get to read amazing tales filled with magic and myth, virtue and vice, and absolute wonder.
In Search of the Lambs and Other Stories by Divyank J. is a skilfully crafted anthology of enthralling stories of the human condition. Delving into
श्रयना भट्टाचार्य की लोकप्रिय किताब Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh का हिंदी अनुवाद, महिलानॉमिक्स – उम्मीद, उन्नति और शाह रुख खान, शुचिता मीतल द्वारा किया गया
What You Are Looking For Is In The Library, a feel-good Japanese bestseller, is about how the perfect book recommendation can change one’s life. In
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Indian literature has a rich tradition of dramas and plays through the centuries. With strong oral traditions, stories were seen and heard, and not read.
As they say (or should say, if they don’t), everything starts from the page. Almost every movie has its inception through a screenplay (or a
Amritesh Mukherjee curates a list of Indian actors who became authors for your TBR. You often see artists switching mediums, an actor becoming a producer,
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Indira Goswami is an Indian Assamese artist. She writes short stories and novels set in different locales of India, which give her readers a taste
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