An extract from Zahir Dehlvi’s Dastan-e-Ghadar: The Tale of the Mutiny ( transl: Rana Safvi)

07 05 , 2018 No Comments
Rana Safvi’s translation from the Urdu into English of Zahir Dehlvi’s memoir Dastan-e-Ghadar: The Tale of the Mutiny was published by Penguin Random House India in 2017.
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William Fiennes “The Snow Geese” and “The Music Room”

07 05 , 2018 No Comments
Best selling author William Fiennes The Snow Geese and The Music Room are two incredibly stunning pieces of literature. They are both meditative in quality.  The Snow Geese was written soon
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Allen Say “Silent Days, Silent Dreams”

06 05 , 2018 No Comments
Caldecott medalist Allen Say’s Silent Days, Silent Dreams is a biography of self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977).  It is a “memoir” as narrated by a fictionalized nephew of
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Ken Spillman “The Great Storyteller”

06 05 , 2018 No Comments
Creatures of the forest gathered to hear The Great Storyteller for the last time.  ‘My life has been full of wonder,’ he tells them. ‘The
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“Pashmina” by Nidhi Chanani

05 05 , 2018 1 Comment
Pashmina by Nidhi  Chanani is a graphic novel about a young Indian-American teenager Priyanka, growing up in America, where she lives alone with her mother.  She
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An extract from Manoranjan Byapari’s memoir: “Making a bomb”

05 05 , 2018 1 Comment
Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit by Manoranjan Byapari is about the author documenting his life from life in East Pakistan to moving
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The JCB Prize for Literature

03 05 , 2018 No Comments
  Recently the Rs 25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature was announced. It is not the first literary prize in India nor is it the
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“Sexographies” by Gabriela Wiener

02 05 , 2018 No Comments
According to the  biography posted online renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is author of the collections of crônicas Sexografías, Nueve Lunas, and Mozart, la iguana con priapismo y otras
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Avengers books for children

02 05 , 2018 No Comments
Avengers:Infinity War is breaking all records at the box office worldwide! With its opening weekend alone it had broken records in many countries. Given the huge
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Katherine Rundell “The Explorer”

02 05 , 2018 No Comments
Katherine Rundell’s The Explorer is about four children who crashed in the Amazon jungle. They do their best to figure out the jungle and how to survive
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