The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is a treat for someone who loves history and literature. The Hungry Tide travels in the past and brings you back to the present smoothly, with words that leave you wanting more. Co-existence between Nature and Humans The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is set in the Sundarbans and […]
Magic and Lore in this graphic novel: Sharanya Manivannan’s Incantations over Water
Sharanya Manivannan’s Incantations over Water: A graphic novel that submerges into the deep blue oceans of diasporic longing and folklore. Meet Ila – a mermaid of the Indian Ocean, retelling narratives of war and trauma, myth and lore. There is a magic that thrives in the waters of the Earth’s wombs. We may have let […]
A must-read children’s book: My Grandmother’s Masterpiece
We have all grown up with certain ideas about our grandmothers. But, how many of us have actually imagined her in a role different from that of a grandmother? As a woman, with her own life, her own hobbies and interests? My Grandmother’s Masterpiece by Madhurima Vidyarthi and illustrated by Tanvi Bhat takes the figure […]
“Read JNU, even if you disagree with it…”
Purple Pencil Project’s Amritesh Mukherjee caught up with Makarand Paranjpe at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022, to talk about his latest, JNU. Excerpts. Please tell us what JNU, the book, is about. You have taught at the JNU, the university, for a very long time, and stood for ideas that are different from what is […]
What are the lesser known monuments of India? This book tells us
A Saint, A folktale and other stories: Lesser known monuments of India, by Rana Safvi, is a collection of 19 articles, each on a different monument (most of these in northern India), including one on the graves of select poets. I read A Saint, A folktale and other stories: Lesser known monuments of India, at […]
A Review of the Hindi Book That Won the International Booker Prize 2022
Tomb of Sand (or Ret Samadhi) is a Hindi book written by Geetanjali Shree and translated into English by Daisy Rockwell. It is the first Hindi fiction book to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The story skillfully adorns the coveted position and delivers a humorful yet hearty narrative. This Hindi book is a […]
Five Novellas About Women By Indira Goswami is a must read collection of feminist fiction
Indira Goswami is an Indian Assamese artist. She writes short stories and novels set in different locales of India, which give her readers a taste of life beyond the boundaries of Assam. When taking on the tough social issues of urban life, the harsh lives of labourers, and the plight of widows in Vrindavan and […]
Simran Dhir: ‘I love that Delhi has a deep, visible history’
Edited Excerpts from an interview with author Simran Dhir. “And as for Delhi, the city continues to blossom with bouquets of bright bougainvillea, champa and laburnum in summer; flood with water and traffic in the monsoon; and unhappily hide beneath the cover of grey smog in winter. Seemingly unchanged but ever-changing, it absorbs the corruption, […]
Amit Majmudar: “India has produced three great epics: Ramayana, Mahabharata, and its own Independence struggle. “
Amit Majmudar is a novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist. His works include Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf/Penguin Random House India, 2018) and the mythological novel Sitayana (Penguin Random House India, 2019), the poetry collection What He Did in Solitary (Knopf, 2020) and the novel, Partitions (Holt/Metropolitan, 2011) which was shortlisted for the HWA/Goldsboro Crown […]
Sparrows played a role in the Dandi March. Find out how
April 6th is the anniversary of the end of the Salt March or the Dandi March, one of the most peaceful protest movements in the history of the world as we know it. Mahatma Gandhi walked nearly 300 kilometres over a period of 24 days from Sabarmati Ashram to (then) Navsari. Ever thought about who […]
