“I choose my subjects very carefully because I have to live with these projects for a long time.”-Kai Bird
Team P3 interacted with Kai Bird at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024. We had a chat with Kai Bird, the bestselling author of The American Prometheus (co-written with Martin J. Sherwin) and The Outlier, at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024. Some excerpts: We’ll start with your experience at JLF. You’ve been here quite a few […]
11 Award-Winning Southeast Asian Authors
Team P3 curates a list of award-winning Southeast Asian authors for your TBR. Southeast Asia is a region rich in cultural diversity, historical depth, and storytelling traditions. From the evocative Indonesian prose to the poignant Vietnamese poetry, there is much to explore in Southeast Asian culture. Our article today looks at some of these luminaries, […]
Book Review: Hot Stage by Anita Nair
Sneha Pathak reviews Anita Nair’s Hot Stage (Published by Harper Collins, 2024) Certain books, for reasons I don’t yet understand, demand that you read them. They won’t leave you alone till you get your hands on them and finish hearing what they have to say. Take Anita Nair’s Hot Stage for instance. As a mystery/thriller […]
Book Review: The Storytellers’ Secret by Sejal Badani
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 […]
Book Review: The Velvet Hotline by Arsh Verma
Sneha Pathak reviews The Velvet Hotline by Arsh Verma (Ebury Press, 2023) When I picked up Arsh Verma’s The Velvet Hotline, I thought I was going in for a hard-boiled, racy crime thriller. The quote on the cover by Ruskin Bond and the fact that Verma is an IPS officer were perhaps responsible for this. […]
Book Review: Mansur by Vikramjit Ram
Rahul Vishnoi reviews Vikramjit Ram’s Mansur (Published by Pan Macmillan India, 2023) Anirudh Kanisetti, the author of the Tata Lit Live winner for best book (non-fiction) 2022 in his promotional byte for Mansur, calls it ‘entrancing, soulful and evocative.’ It is indeed. All three of those. Shortlisted for the prestigious JCB Prize 2023, Mansur by […]
Book Review: Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar
Sneha Pathak reviews Hema Sukumar’s Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments (Published by Coronet, 2023) Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments is Hema Sukumar’s debut novel which is set in the fictional Grand Apartments in Chennai and takes its readers through the life of the various characters who inhabit the place. We meet and become […]
Book Review: An Unfinished Search by Rashmi Narzary
Dishari Malakar reviews Rashmi Narzary’s An Unfinished Search (Published by Pippa Rann Books and Media, 2023) In the realm of contemporary fiction, Rashmi Narzary’s “An Unfinished Search: One Lineage, in One Village, through Three Nations” stands out as a remarkable literary accomplishment. This novel captivated me due to my keen interest in Partition Literature. The […]
Book Review: The Silent Coup by Josy Joseph
Rahul Vishnoi review’s Josy Joseph’s The Silent Coup (Published by Context, 2022) Josy Joseph is a writer-journalist specialising in investigative journalism, and his name has chiefly been associated with uncovering Mumbai Adarsh Housing Scam and 2010 Commonwealth Games scam. Here in The Silent Coup, he investigates India’s war on terror, non-military security organisations like Indian […]
To Fight Battles Not for Victory: The Free Voice by Ravish Kumar Review
Amritesh Mukherjee reviews Ravish Kumar’s Bolna Hi Hai (Published by Rajkamal Prakashan, 2019) “The act of speaking out makes you alone.” A colleague at work shares the trailer to a new propaganda movie coming soon in a new election year to a not-so-new cheering audience. “Goosebumps”, she adds with the trailer link on the group […]
