14 Gift Ideas for Book Lovers

gifts for book lovers

Payal Morankar curates a gifting guide for book lovers for every season and every reason. I don’t know if it’s just me but some random early childhood memories are still ingrained in my mind. Unexplainably, vividly so. One of them is that of Teachers’ Day Eve when I was in first or second grade, with […]

Translations: The Talk of Publishing Town

feature image for the article a brief history of indian translation

Translation is a key political tool anywhere we go; but have the last few years of being in the spotlight changed things for the industry and how did Indian literature in translation become the latest buzzword? Payal Morankar finds out. In a country that has hundreds of languages and dialects, it might seem that Indian […]

Finding home in literature: Indian diasporic fiction

Indian diasporic authors

Even before translation and robust marketing was the order of the day, Indian diasporic writers have put Indian stories on the map of world literature. Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Aravind Adiga, Jeet Thayil, Jhumpa Lahiri, have penned unforgettable stories over the last few decades. By defintion, diasporic […]

Our minds have a heart too: Books about mental health

books about mental health

While we have a long way to go on talking about mental wellness and mental health, there are surely steps being taken in the right direction. And a good barometer of it is our literature; more and more authors are tackling the theme of mental wellness and mental health. Because literature is a great starting […]