Megha Majumdar’s “A Burning”

19 06 , 2020 No Comments
Debut novelist Megha Majumdar has had a dream start to her literary career with A Burning. It is about a young Muslim girl called Jivan
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Tim Pears’s The West Country Trilogy

19 06 , 2020 No Comments
Lockdown reading is a way of keeping one’s sanity. Long, satisfying reads are definitely a pleasaurable way to while one’s time. Tim Pears’s The West
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“Letters to Mother”

19 06 , 2020 No Comments
New age publishing in India = celebrity publishing. This is the latest offering from HarperCollins India. 19 June 2020
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Importance of fostering a book reading culture

19 06 , 2020 No Comments
On 11 June 2020, I was invited by the renowned Hindi publishers Rajpal & Sons to talk about the importance of fostering a book reading
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Interview with Sharad Sharma regarding “Rendered Stateless: Not Voiceless” — comics created by Rohingya refugees

22 05 , 2020 No Comments
Sharad Sharma is a Delhi based cartoonist and comics trainer. More than twenty years ago he started the grassroots comics movement. It has now spread
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Books read during the lockdown, April 2020

14 05 , 2020 No Comments
It is not very easy to read while the lockdown is on but I have managed a wee bit. The following are only some of
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Taslima Nasreen’s “Shameless”

06 05 , 2020 No Comments
In 1993 Taslima Nasreen wrote Lajja ( “Shame”) in Bengali. It was her response to the anti-Hindu riots that had broken out in Bangladesh after
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“A Woven Life” by Jenny Housego

04 05 , 2020 No Comments
Memoirs, autobiographies and biographies are a great introduction to a life. They also share a period through personal stories making history come alive. Memoirs are
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“Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi” by Sudhanva Deshpande

04 05 , 2020 No Comments
Sudhanva Deshpande’s Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi is an account of the left activist Safdar Hashmi who was brutally murdered on
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Interview with translator Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

03 05 , 2020 No Comments
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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