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Book Lists

Award-winning Indian Books of 2019

There are the really big book awards. We know the Booker prize, we know the Nobel, the Pulitzer. Closer home, any list of award-winning Indian

Jessica Joshi April 3, 2020

Book Reviews

The Far Field: A Review

Some books, like people, have ways of finding you. This is what happened with The Far Field. I didn’t find it, it found me. I

Sneha Pathak October 27, 2019

Book Reviews

A Patchwork Family by Mukta Sathe

A Patchwork Family would have definitely gone past my radar had it not been long-listed for the JCB Prize for literature. A short yet hard-hitting

Sneha Pathak October 27, 2019

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Book Reviews

There’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari

When I read the blurb of There’s Gunpowder in the Air, I couldn’t help but be reminded of an iconic scene from the popular Hindi

Sneha Pathak October 3, 2019

Essays

Creating a New Category: Audiobooks In India

The last year has seen momentous growth in the literary sector – there was a new Literary Prize, record adaptations with companies like The Story

Akhila Menon July 16, 2019

Book Reviews

Jasmine Days by Benyamin

I once had a conversation with my friend, of a different and politically opposing faith. When push came to shove, if the two of us

Prakruti Maniar April 10, 2019

Book Reviews

Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan

“Once, in a village, there was a goat. No one knew where she was born. The birth of an ordinary life never leaves a trace,

Sneha Pathak February 19, 2019

News

The Really Big List of Award-Winning Indian Novels of 2018

Some new names and some old, some popular choices and some critically-loved. 2018 was an exciting year for Indian literature, a time when the reading,

Prakruti Maniar January 10, 2019

Book Reviews

All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy

A compass among rows of paints. The cover of All the Lives We Never Lived is enough to draw you in even without its blurb

Prakruti Maniar October 22, 2018

Q & A

Fiction begins where non-fiction ends: Shubhangi Swarup

Speaking to Shubhangi Swarup, like reading her book, is to leave the parochial behind. It is to be inspired to live as fully and engagingly

Prakruti Maniar October 18, 2018

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Award-winning Indian Books of 2019

The Far Field: A Review

A Patchwork Family by Mukta Sathe

There’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari

Creating a New Category: Audiobooks In India

Jasmine Days by Benyamin

Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan

The Really Big List of Award-Winning Indian Novels of 2018

All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy

Fiction begins where non-fiction ends: Shubhangi Swarup

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