Akil Kumaraswamy’s “Half Gods”

03 11 , 2018 No Comments
“Refugees can’t be picky. . .   .”  Akil Kumaraswamy’s debut Half Gods is a collection of interlinked short stories. These are stories revolving around a father-daughter duo
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Sharmila Sen “Not Quite, Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America”

02 11 , 2018 No Comments
When people move they inevitably bring certain things with them, leave a few things behind, and acquire new possessions. My parents had asked me to
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Patrick Ness’s “And The Ocean Was Our Sky”

29 10 , 2018 No Comments
For there are devils in the deep,  but worse are the ones we make.  Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s latest novel is a retelling of Moby Dick
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“Steed of the Jungle God” by Raza H. Tehsin with Arefa Tehsin

29 10 , 2018 No Comments
Wildlife conservationist Raza H. Tehsin’s Steed of the Jungle God: Thrilling Experiences in the Wild  is a collection of essays written along with his daughter, Arefa Tehsin,
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Shubhangi Swarup “Latitudes of Longing”

29 10 , 2018 No Comments
Former journalist Shubhangi Swarup’s debut novel Latitudes of Longing is a plot spread across a few decades, loosely held together by some characters particularly the scientist Girijia Narain
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“The Overstory” by Richard Powers

26 10 , 2018 No Comments
They read about myrrh-tree transplanting expeditions depicted in the reliefs at Karnak, three thousand five hundred years ago. They read about trees that migrate. Trees
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“Milkman” by Anna Burns

26 10 , 2018 No Comments
Man Booker Prize winner 2018 Anna Burn’s novel Milkman is about a nameless eighteen-year-old narrator, most often referred to as the “reading-while-walking” girl who prefers to read
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Book Post 15: 14 – 20 October

23 10 , 2018 No Comments
Every Monday I post some of the books I have received in the previous week. Embedded in the book covers and post will also be
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“Puu”, picture book by CG Salamander and Samidha Gunjal

19 10 , 2018 2 Comments
Manual scavenging and rubbish pickers are a sad reality of our world. Yet these stories are rarely heard. In India it is only recently these
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Book 14: 1-15 October 2018 / children’s literature and young adult literature

18 10 , 2018 No Comments
Every Monday I post some of the books I have received in the previous week. Embedded in the book covers and post will also be
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