Longing and Belonging in India by Ruskin Bond
Jainand Gurjar reviews Ruskin Bond’s My India, Longing and Belonging (Publishing by Rupa Publications, 2023) India has celebrated its 77th Independence Day this year, marking 76 years of freedom. A freedom that came from people of diverse dimensions, ideologies, thinking, working, and living, and yet bound by the idea of oneness, togetherness, collective consciousness, of […]
“Writing has always recharged me…”- S.B. Divya (Author of Machinehood, Saga Press)
S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. Divya is the Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated author of Runtime and co-editor of Escape Pod, with Mur Lafferty. Her short stories have been published in various magazines including Analog, Uncanny, and Tor. She is the author of the […]
14 Books Based on Indian Mystery Places
Team P3 curates a list of Indian mystery places explored in books by writers that are a MUST-READ for every mystery lover! Mysteries are interesting, little things. An observation that doesn’t make sense, a dialogue whose meaning you can’t decipher, a story that keeps you awake at night. Or a place that harbors secrets of […]
12 Must-Read Translated Literature 2023
Team P3 curates a list of must-read translated literature 2023 for your TBR. Translated Literature has rarely been more in fashion than now! Globally, more and more stories are being translated and sought by new audiences. You can easily observe this in the changing trends of Indian literature as well. More and more publishers are […]
Decolonising Culture And the Self in Shubnum Khan’s How I Accidentally Became A Global Stock Photo: And Other Strange And Wonderful Stories
Disha Chakraborthy reviews Shubnum Khan’s How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo: and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories (Published by Pan MacMillan, 2021) Introduction Described as “part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter” by the author in the introduction to her book, Shubnum Khan’s How I Accidentally Became A Global Stock Photo: And Other […]
A Lost People’s Archive by Rimli Sengupta
Akankshya Abismruta reviews Rimli Sengupta’s A Lost People’s Archive (Published by Aleph Book Company, June 2023) Rimli Sengupta’s second novel A Lost People’s Archive is about the impact of the partition of India on the people of present-day Bangladesh, known in the book as Bangals, different from the Bengali folks of India. The Punjab partition […]
Won’t You Stay, Radhika?: A Glimpse into Diasporic Alienation and Longing from a Female Perspective
Anna Lynn reviews Won’t You Stay, Radhika, originally written in Hindi as Rukogi Nahi, Radhika? by Usha Priyamvada, and translated into English by Daisy Rockwell. Introduction This is the first novel written by a woman on the diaspora experience, as far back as 1967 by Hindi writer, Usha Priyamvada. It is brought to the English reader’s […]
30 Book Adaptations from Indian Regional Literature
Team P3 curates a list of recommended book adaptations from Indian Regional Literature that are a must-watch for every cinephile and book lover. Indian literature, as we know, knows no bounds. It’s diverse and complicated and contains many cultures and subtexts in various forms. It’s equally interesting how stories from different regions translate to a […]
My World Without Jehan by Liana Mistry: Emerging from the depths of grief into light and healing
Samiksha Ransom reviews My World Without Jehan: Surviving a Brother’s Suicide by Liana Mistry (Published by Speaking Tiger Books, 2023) Trigger Warning: Suicide My World Without Jehan: Surviving a Brother’s Suicide is a deeply uncomfortable memoir by Liana Mistry in which she recounts her life against the backdrop of the suicide of her older brother, […]
Devotion of Suspect X: A Crime Fiction with a strong undercurrent of love
Rahul Vishnoi dissects the popularity of a timeless detective fiction Devotion of Suspect X, recently remade into a film titled Jaane Jaan for Netflix India. (This article is spoiler-free, for both the book and the movie) Keigo Higashino, at forty-seven years of age, wrote a Japanese detective fiction in 2005. Little did he know it […]
