“One of the most important and exciting things about objects is that they were made by people, for people.”- Sushma Jansari (Historian & Author)

Interview with Sushma Jansari

Prakruti Maniar from Team P3 is in conversation with British Indian Historian Sushma Jansari at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 Sushma Jansari is a British Indian historian specialising in the Mauryan period and collecting histories. She is the Tabor Foundation curator of South Asia at the British Museum and a trustee of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.  Jansari is […]

“You want to shape the story to how it should be. It fails because it’s not your story. It’s the character’s story. It’s a story’s story. You are just a channel. Let the characters speak.” Saras Manickam

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Prakruti Maniar was in conversation with award-winning writer Saras Manickam at the Jaipur Literature Festival early this year. An award-winning writer, Saras Manickam’s story, My Mother Pattu won the regional prize for Asia in the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Contest. In 2021, it was included in the anthology, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories, published by Bloomsbury, and […]

Book Review: The Storytellers’ Secret by Sejal Badani

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Prakruti Maniar reviews Sejal Badani’s The Storyteller’s Secret (Lake Union Publishing) The Storytellers’ Secret, author Sejal Badani’s second novel, has an incredibly promising and compelling premise. New York-based Jaya, who shares a difficult and estranged relationship with her immigrant mother, finds herself in a very dark place following several miscarriages and the resulting broken marriage […]

What to look forward to at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024

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Team P3 is at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 as they share notes on what to expect. Purple Pencil Project is at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 for the third time this year. Amritesh and I have been busy the last few days preparing for it – going through the speaker’s list, highlighting the sessions […]

14 Literary Awards in India 2023

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Team P3 curates a list of literary awards 2023. Outside of the popular awards like the Jnanpith Award, JCB, and Sahitya Akademi, there are plenty more awards in India, both central and regional. In this article, we’re going to look at the several literary awards 2023 in Indian literature. List of Literary Awards 2023 Bala […]

The power of a good story remains unchanged: Lavanya Karthik

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As a child, Lavanya Karthik spent all her time writing stories in her school notebooks and drawing the pictures to go with them. She is now a slightly older child, still making up stories and drawing pictures. You can find her wandering about the bylanes of Mumbai, nibbling on chocolate, chatting with street dogs and […]

Technology is just one more way to connect with the kids: Likla Lall

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Likla writes for children of all ages. She has published with Art1st Books- look out for ‘Art is a Verb’, a fun take on grammar through art, and ‘Somnath Hore: Wounds’. She’s currently making her way back to a dance and movement practice. She’s one of the speakers at the Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival 2022, […]

Creating classics: Kayva Gokhale, creator at Amar Chitra Katha

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Kayva Gokhale the junior sub-editor at the iconinc Amar Chitra Katha, is going to be at the Bookaroo Children’s Festival 2022 to be held in Vadodara from 19th to 20th November 2022. Her sessions include one on scripting for comics and another on fantastic folktales. Excerpts from an interview with the creator. Let’s talk a […]