unBlock Meetup 101
We kickstarted our second event series after Filmi Keeda, with unBlock 101, a meetup for aspiring authors and creative writers to come and, well, write; get live feedback and return with actual tips that they can apply to their next draft. In unBlock Meetup 101, held in September 2019, we gave the participants three prompts […]
unBlock Meetup 102
unBlock Meetup 102, a writers meetup held in November 2019, saw writers, both aspiring and established, come together to work at their craft, either aided by the prompts we gave or independently. The feedback session that followed raised important questions – How to create edgy characters? What to do when one too many ideas drop […]
The Wizard Khizr by Katha World Library
The Wizard Khizr, published by the Katha World Library, is a colourful, glossy adventure story that promises to make the child in you thrilled. Books are one way you can surf along the memory wave, reliving your childhood, along with all its amusing and bizarre details, full of knick-knacks of nostalgia. The Wizard Khizr is […]
Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale
Milk Teeth by debut author Amrita Mahale was last year’s runaway hit, a story about friendship, love, family, and society – but above all, a story of and about Mumbai, and how it makes the people, even as it is made by the people. Milk Teeth revolves around the lives of civic beat reporter Ira […]
Strewn Flowers – Selected Hindi Poems, translated by Pavitra Mohan
Strewn Flowers – Selected Hindi Poems is a treasure chest of poetry with English translations, including old and new, classic and vintage verses from 30 poets, both celebrated and obscure. Strewn Flowers comprises 51 poems from different eras on a variety of themes and topics categorised by chapter – Love and Passion, Wisdom, Harmony, Melancholia […]
Sheet Sahasik Hemantolok by Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Translated from Bengali by Tutun Mukherjee Sheet Sahasik Hemantolok is a poignant reminder of universal truth. Age is a heartless abductor. Youth arrives with a lot of fanfare, like a king, it leaves surreptitiously, like a thief. The silent arrival of middle age is barely noticed – a couple of grey hairs, a wrinkle or […]
The Resignation (Tyagapatra) by Jainendra
Translated from Hindi by Rohini Chowdhury “… No, I cannot analyse vice and virtue, morality and immorality. I am a judge; so I know the limitations of the system of justice. Which is why I say, those who have the authority to pronounce someone a sinner, basing their verdict only on the weighing and measuring […]
Shikhandini by Ashwini Shenoy
There is a scene in the Hindi film Badla when Amitabh Bachchan refers to Sanjaya from Mahabharata. Tapasee Pannu cannot identify Sanjaya. On being asked if she knows the Mahabharata, she tells Bachchan that she had read it in childhood and she knows its basic storyline. Like most Indians. We know the basic story of […]
Poetry book Poetic Howl 2, by Shashank Sharma
The blurb of Shashank Sharma’s poetry book, Poetic Howl 2, reads, ‘An intimate portrayal of life with its perplexing realities, Poetic Howl 2 encompasses a breath-taking casket of a fresh collection of Hindi poetry with English translations’. In reality, it’s a collection of dry, lukewarm and poorly translated Hindi poems which lack depth. Most poems […]
Haiku, Senryu, Tanka and Haibun: A Unique Anthology
The FIRST Katha Book of Haiku, Senryu, Tanka & Haibun is a collection of 154 poems spanning the four genres, written by 35 poets from diverse backgrounds, bringing an Indian spin to these four-hundred-year-old Japanese art forms. Edited by Kala Ramesh, Johannes Manjrekar, and Vidur Jyoti, and illustrated by Surabhi Singh, the collection accentuates that […]
