Book Reviews

Kith and Kin by Sheila Kumar

Sheila Kumar’s Kith and Kin is a collection of nineteen short stories centred on the Melekat family – an upper-caste Nair family from Kerala, all

Anupama Kumar December 28, 2020

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Waiting For The Dust To Settle by Veio Pou

In 1947, the new entity known as “India” officially became a sovereign state, gladly relinquishing its former ‘British colony’ status. And that is where the

Kirtana Menon December 26, 2020

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Fishing for love in Chemmeen

Chemmeen is written by T.S. Pillai and translated from Malayalam by Narayana Menon Set in the “tiny fishing villages of Kerala on the southwest coast”

Prakruti Maniar December 25, 2020

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Colours of Loneliness and other stories by Paramita Satpathy

What is it that you think of when you have a collection of short stories in your hand? There is vigour, excitement and most importantly

Dhviti Vora December 23, 2020

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Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

Difficult Daughters by Manju is an intimate and gripping tale of three women, Virmati, Shakuntala and Swarna, set in the pre-independence era who choose to

Kritika Agrawal December 19, 2020

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Short Story Collections – October 2020

Short Story Thursday is a weekly series dedicated to highlighting the short-stories from Indian literature. In October, we focused on the themes like Mental Health

admin December 17, 2020

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Tales from the Himalayas by Priyanka Pradhan

Tales from the Himalayas is a collection of seventeen short tales set in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, published by Rupa publications. These stories, borrowed

Sneha Pathak December 15, 2020

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Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India: Edited by Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa’s ‘Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India’ Celebrates the Muslim Women-Led Nationwide Anti-CAA-NRC Protests The nationwide Muslim-women-led protests against the notorious Citizenship (Amendment)

Saurabh Sharma December 10, 2020

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Separate Journeys : Edited by Geeta Dharmarajan

Separate Journeys, the new collection of short stories edited by Geeta Dharmarajan, is earthy and raw in its exploration of womanhood in multiple forms –

Anupama Kumar November 26, 2020

Book Reviews

Forsaking Paradise by Abdul Ghani Sheikh

Translated from Urdu by Ravina Aggarwal Discovering Indian literature across the country giving a broad spectrum of stories known and unknown is one of my

Swathi VK November 25, 2020

Category: Book Reviews

Kith and Kin by Sheila Kumar

Waiting For The Dust To Settle by Veio Pou

Fishing for love in Chemmeen

Colours of Loneliness and other stories by Paramita Satpathy

Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

Short Story Collections – October 2020

Tales from the Himalayas by Priyanka Pradhan

Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India: Edited by Seema Mustafa

Separate Journeys : Edited by Geeta Dharmarajan

Forsaking Paradise by Abdul Ghani Sheikh

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