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Team P3 curates a list of brilliant reads from translated children’s literature in India for your TBR list. How do you ensure the next generation after us is aware and appreciative of our country’s rich culture? How do you provide your children with diverse stories that help them understand the many regions, practices, and lifestyles […]

Team P3 curates a list of translated classic literature in India recommended for all classics-lovers Reading classics is a fascinating experience in that those books don’t just whisper to you stories written decades, if not centuries, ago but also help you better appreciate the history and culture of a region. The Indian states differ remarkably […]

Team P3 curates a list of recommended translated poetry books in India for your TBR list! There are few mediums as concise and precise to convey your emotions as poetry, which is why translating one becomes doubly difficult a task. Unlike prose, verses often use the reader’s knowledge of the language to play with it, […]

Team P3 curates a list of recommended reads from Indian Literature Books through the decades focusing on the 1990s. This was the decade of economic liberalization, this was also the decade of the Babri demolition, this was the decade of political uncertainties, this was also the decade of new socio-economic certainties. As Dickens’ legendary quote […]

Team P3 curates a list of recommended post-emergency Indian literature for your TBR list. The country was at the precipice of change: the Emergency was issued in the previous decade itself, and political volatility was as high as it could be. The regional arts and culture were seeping into the mainstream, and how! Not just […]