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April 6th is the anniversary of the end of the Salt March or the Dandi March, one of the most peaceful protest movements in the
April 6th is the anniversary of the end of the Salt March or the Dandi March, one of the most peaceful protest movements in the
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Sky is my Father was originally published as A Naga Village Remembered, and recently reissued by Speaking Tiger books. The change in titles definitely changes
We’ve all read about history in school books: an endless repetition of dry facts and dates, of people with unpronounceable names and long-forgotten titles. Yet history is
It is 11th Century CE, and India is fragmented and tormented by invasions of Mahmud Ghazni. This is the point where the curtains open to
An interview of Nilima Sinha, author of Red Blooms in the Forest published by Niyogi Books, where she talks about translations, genres and more.
Manu S Pillai needs very little introduction. Over the course of one decade and three books, he has contributed to taking history to a mass
There is a certain romance to historical fiction – an imaginative mind can spend hours on end going from one ‘what if’ scenario to another,
Author of the Hindu Prize winner, A Requiem in Raga Janki, Neelum Saran Gour is the voice of North India’s literary community. Born and brought
The first thing that intrigued me about the book was its title; I thought that Janki is the name of an actual “raga” and started
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