32 Literary Magazines in India
Mustering the courage to send your written work to potential publishers and magazines might seem intimidating at first glance. Having finished writing your piece, regardless of your genre, getting it published is a momentous step in your writing career. It’s of paramount importance that you choose a suitable literary magazine for publishing. We have curated […]
Masala Memsahib: A Culinary Delight on Paper
Masala Memsahib is a food memoir, travelogue, and recipe book in equal parts. When Karen Anand arrived at the Oberoi Grand in Kolkata after a long day of travel, she requested the chef for room service – something Bengali with fresh fish. The chef whipped up Maachhher Jhol – a homestyle fish curry with piping […]
8 easy cooking course books aspiring chefs should read
Want to be a chef? Here’s a list of books curated especially for you. Whether you want to learn the art of cooking better or go the professional route, you’re certainly going to find something here, in each of these cooking course books. Do you have suggestions for more cooking course resources? Drop them into […]
20 Delicious Indian Cookbooks for the Chef In You
You can prepare all the pasta in the world or variations of ramen and Maggi, but the comfort and flavour of homecooked, authentic Indian food will never be matched by them. There are a lot of cooking videos that are available on Youtube, but again, the charm of cookbooks is unique. Imagine the days when […]
8 books with delectable cover designs that are a must-have to brighten up your bookshelf
“Do not judge a book by its cover”. An old adage. But how can you not want to pick up a book at a bookstore or add-to-cart if it has an absolutely yummy cover design? A lot of hard work goes into designing the covers, and we are sure you give it a second thought […]
Indian Food Culture: 12 Essential Books You Cannot Miss
Food is not just some matter required to keep the human body going but a language of a culture. The way the food is prepared at weddings, birthdays, funerals, etc tells what a culture thinks about the idea of life. The ingredients used in a cuisine talk about both the history and the geography of […]
Spook and supernatural: 10 horror books you simply cannot miss
Horror stories and by extension, horror books, are possibly old as storytelling itself. Death, the supernatural, the afterlife, the fear of the unknown – by nature, horror speaks to one of the most primal human emotions. Especially ancient cultures, like those in India, are replete with these stories, even if the motifs and mythologies that […]
Set after the Bangladesh Liberation War, this powerful coming-of-age story shines
Shurjo’s Clan by Iffat Nawaz is a beautifully written narrative of how the Bangladesh Liberation War, and war in general, impacts the minds of a nation’s young, and how a young country navigates through the effects. There was a patriotic song that was played every night before the 10 p.m. news on Bangladesh Television in […]
This German translation to English is a delightful cultural melange of 1857 India
The Museum of the World by Christopher Kloeble is a German translation to English by Rekha Kamath Rajan, and tells the story of years before 1857 like never before. The very first time that Christopher Kloeble went to a café in India, there was a world map on the wall that appeared distorted to him, […]
Contamination is an average horror book; but would it be a great movie?
Told in the form of a fantasy, Contamination is a horror book that tells the time-old tale of atrocities committed by the so-called civilized against a group of tribal people, motivated by both greed and racism. Contamination takes us to the fictional hinterlands of a village of Habishi tribals surrounded by Hori mountains on one […]
