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A Bouquet of Dead Flowers is a collection of ten Hindi to English stories by Swadesh Deepak, translated by Jerry Pinto, Pratik Kanjilal, Nirupama Dutt
As someone who has spent many years in the north-east India, I have long been fascinated by the region’s complex history, its diverse geography and
The nine stories of Chandan Pandey and Sayari Debnath’s The Keeper of Desolation are stories coming together, translated hindi stories that show us a different
Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words is a dystopian fantasy where humans are the Speakers but rendered mute. Must you speak? Then buy a Word. Yes, the
Shortlisted for prestigious JCB Award for his 2021 novel ‘The Plague Upon Us’, Shabir Ahmad Mir now brings a story of Kashmir replete with the
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia dissects the ‘artificial’ of AI i.e. the artificial intelligence that’s rapidly taking over the
In the content warning for ‘The Goddess of the River’, Vaishnavi Patel writes that Mahabharata has every terrible act ever imagined. In The Dharma of
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