A Racy Edge-of-the-Seat Thriller: Tears of the Dragon Leaves You Asking for More!
Sneha Pathak reviews Tears of the Dragon by Ankush Saikia, a racy edge-of-the-seat thriller that leaves you asking for more. First, there were the gentlemen detectives with their cigars and their grey cells. Then came the spies with gazettes in one arm and a dry martini in the other. And then were the PIs, hard-boiled […]
Daisy Rockwell: Translations, the Booker prize and the way ahead
Team Purple Pencil Project spoke to Daisy Rockwell at the Jaipur Literature Festival this year held in January 2023 at Jaipur, the 2022 Booker Prize-winning translator for her work Tomb of Sand (Originally written in Hindi by Geetanjali Shree as Ret Samadhi). Daisy Rockwell is an American Hindi and Urdu language translator and artist. She […]
8 Comfort books all about grandmothers and their sweetness
Grandmothers. Often the person who saves you from the scoldings of your parents and even your grandfather. Be it your maternal grandmother, who stuffs you with many homemade sweets whenever you go to visit, or your paternal grandmother spoiling you with too much love, the relationship is one of the sweetest ones. And, grandmothers and […]
Black River : A Deadly combination of murder and mayhem
Sneha Pathak reviews Nilanjana S Roy’s Black River (Context, 2022) which masquerades as a police procedural, a thriller, and a suspense novel. What attracted me first to Nilanjana S Roy’s Black River was its cover. Done in swirls of inky blue and punctuated with lighter shades of the same colour with the title standing out […]
8 Best non-fiction books for kids making learning fun
If it’s important to introduce kids to the varied types of stories and characters for better understanding and acceptance for people, it is equally essential to introduce them to the history and general knowledge subjects. Here’s a list of non-fiction books curated by P3 to compliment the curriculum. Click on the book cover for more […]
The Only Way Out Is Death by Varun Gwalani-Thriller or Post-pandemic fiction?
Akankshya Abismruta reviews Varun Gwalani’s The Only Way Out is Death (Saga Fiction, 2022). Locked-room thriller immediately reminds me of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. While Christie used the titular poem to craft the murders in her book, Varun Gwalani uses the pandemic and the following lockdown to build the context of his […]
The Beginning of the Gameworld Trilogy: Fantasy or Fable?
Priyadarshini Gauri reviews The Simoquin Prophecies (Part I of the Gameworld Trilogy) by Samit Basu. On my second date with the guy who would be my husband, we went to the Landmark bookstore (May its soul rest in peace!) in the city that used to be called Gurgaon. The year was 2007. We were both […]
Nanda Devi: The challenge, the journey and the despair
Priyadarshi Gauri reviews Nanda Devi by Sandeep Madadi which reads more like a long-form essay than a thorough textbook exploration of the topic but is an easy read. Move beyond casual statements like, “We Indians will worship anything, even a stone,” and you will find stories that lie at the intersection of folklore, geography, mythology, […]
Experience Shakti Chattopadhyay’s poetry in translation
Priyadarshini reviews Very Close to Pleasure, There is a Sick Cat (Originally written in Bengali by Shakti Chattopadhyay and translated into English by Arunava Sinha) Shakti Chattopadhyay once declared, “Every poet’s verse is one long poem – it’s just that he writes it in fragments.” In Very Close to Pleasure, There is a Sick Cat, […]
Difference Between Fantasy and Sci-fi in Indian Literature
When it comes to literature, one of the most common genres you’ll discover is speculative fiction. For the unaware, this umbrella term covers a wide range of sub-genres, including fantasy and science fiction or sci-fi, as it is popularly known. While both sub-genres have unique characteristics and appeal to different types of readers, they are […]
