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
Published originally in Malyalam, Valli is a climate fiction, told through the point of view various characters. It’s translated by Jayasree Kalathil, the joint winner
Anannya Nath reviews The One Legged by Sakyajit Bhattacharya, translated from Bangla by Rituparna Mukherjee (published by Red Herring, The Antonym Collections, 2023). The trees
Language empowers, but it alienates as well. Translators are literary archaeologists who empower the languages and enable the readers. They round off the sharp edges
The chasm between the rich and diverse “regional” literature and the mainstream English literature has always been large. Still, the rise in the number of
Rahul Vishnoi reviews I Named My Sister Silence by Manoj Rupda, translated from Hindi by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar (published by Eka, 2023). First things first.
Rahul Vishnoi reviews Vikramjit Ram’s Mansur (Published by Pan Macmillan India, 2023) Anirudh Kanisetti, the author of the Tata Lit Live winner for best book
Team P3 curates a list of literary awards 2023. Outside of the popular awards like the Jnanpith Award, JCB, and Sahitya Akademi, there are plenty
Rahul Vishnoi reviews Chetna Maroo’s Western Lane (Published by Picador, 2023) Western Lane, Chetna Maroo’s Booker-shortlisted debut, is a short novel, almost a novella, sketching
Rahul Vishnoi reviews Bikram Sharma’s The Colony of Shadows (Hachette India, 2022) Waddled in the garb of restrained, urban fantasy-fiction, the debut work of Bikram
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