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Sneha Pathak reviews Subversive Whispers originally written by Manasi in Malayalam and translated by J Devika in English (Published by Penguin India, 2023) Subversive Whispers
Neha Kirpal reviews Mansoor Khan’s debut novel One (Published by Harper Collins, 2023) Bollywood film director and producer Mansoor Hussain Khan recently released his debut
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
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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
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
Team P3 curates a list of recommended reads that take you through the Indian History Timeline in the 1970s. The 1970s in India was a
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Qabar by K.R. Meera is a social commentary on religious polarisation and has to be read between the lines. Originally written in Malayalam, Qabar by
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