Did you await a Hogwarts letter on your eleventh birthday too? Did you long to visit the wizarding world somehow, someday? Was it your childhood
In 1974, twenty-three-year-old Indu (named after India’s then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi), inherits a sprawling four-bedroom flat from her grandmother. Given that the house is
Although a novel that opens with a train burning might somewhat naturally bring to mind the Gujarat pogrom following the Godhra train burning in February
Jahnavi Barua is an Indian writer based in Bangalore. Next Door (Penguin India, 2008), her debut collection of short stories was longlisted for the Frank
Undertow by Jahnavi Barua, a family saga spanning three generations, explores love, kinship ties with a mother-daughter relationship at its fulcrum and loss – of
Translated from Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan Samskara, originally written in Kannada in 1965, sheds light on the caste system and ways of Brahmanism in the
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