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Interview with translator Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is a Bengali translator, author, and professor of English and world literature. She lives in Virginia with her husband and plants. She has
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Hilary Mantel and Kate Mosse

03 05 , 2020 No Comments

Historical fiction is always such a joy to read. If deftly created by an author with an informed imagination, then the pleasure of reading big
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Interview with Aditya Iyengar

23 04 , 2020 No Comments

Retelling of Indian mythology by Indian novelists is proving to be quite an interesting exercise as it is allows the modern storyteller to choose and
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Teaching a tiddler how to read English

17 04 , 2020 No Comments

Last year Scholastic India published a marvellous collection of essays on reading. It is called Why I Love to Read: Real Stories about the Joy
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Interview with Gaël Faye on his debut novel “Small Country”

17 04 , 2020 No Comments

I read Gaël Faye’s book more than a year ago. Loved every word of it even though the story itself is horrific about the Rwanda
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“House of Trelawney” by Hannah Rothschild

21 03 , 2020 No Comments

‘It may not take the form of sticks and stones or result in immediate action, but if the collapse is as big as I fear,
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“The Cartiers: The Untold Story of a Jewellery Dynasty” by Francesca Cartier Brickell

11 03 , 2020 No Comments

The Cartiers: The Untold Story of a Jewellery Dynasty by Francesca Cartier Brickell is a family history penned by the great-great-great granddaughter of the iconic
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Ariana Neumann “When Time Stopped”

09 03 , 2020 No Comments

…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped?
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Aravind Adiga “Amnesty”

07 03 , 2020 No Comments

A man without rights in this world is still entitled to love. Award-winning author Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty is set in Sydney, Australia. It tells the
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“I write like a reader”, interview with Ann Cleeves

02 03 , 2020 No Comments

Ann Cleeves is known for her mystery novels mostly set in Devon and the Shetlands. She has been writing for many years but the recent
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