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Of Nayantara Sahgal’s “The Fate of Butterflies” and Toni Morrison’s “Mouth Full of Blood”

Nayantara Sahgal (b. 1927) and Toni Morrison (b.1931) have new publications out this past week. Nayantara Sahgal has a novella called The Fate of Butterflies.
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An extract from Radha Kumar’s “Paradise at War”

22 02 , 2019 No Comments

Dr Radha Kumar is a historian and a policy analyst who has written several well-regarded books on ethnic conflict and feminism. She was one of
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An extract from Snigdha Poonam’s “Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World”

21 02 , 2019 No Comments

Today, 21 February, is International Mother Language Day as declared by the United Nations. In India the dialects and languages spoken change every 20 kms.
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“My Father’s Garden” by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

15 02 , 2019 No Comments

…on each trip home, I found my father working unrelentingly in his garden. And under his loving care, it flourished more than ever. A hibiscus
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Vikram Paralkar’s “The Afflictions”

14 02 , 2019 No Comments

Hematologist and witer Vikram Paralkar’s The Afflictions is a slim book with a list of diseases to be found in the Encyclopaedia Medicinae. The Encyclopaedia comprises three hundred
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Juergen Boos, President/CEO, Frankfurt Book Fair/ Frankfurter Buchmesse, on “Freedom to Publish”, 23 Jan 2019, Jaipur Bookmark

14 02 , 2019 1 Comment

Juergen Boos, President/CEO, Frankfurt Book Fair/ Frankfurter Buchmesse, delivered the inaugural speech at the Jaipur Bookmark. It is the business conclave that is inaugurated the
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Of Nayantara Sahgal’s “The Fate of Butterflies” and Toni Morrison’s “Mouth Full of Blood”

An extract from Radha Kumar’s “Paradise at War”

An extract from Snigdha Poonam’s “Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World”

“My Father’s Garden” by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Vikram Paralkar’s “The Afflictions”

Juergen Boos, President/CEO, Frankfurt Book Fair/ Frankfurter Buchmesse, on “Freedom to Publish”, 23 Jan 2019, Jaipur Bookmark

Vera Michalski-Hoffman’s keynote address at Jaipur Bookmark, 25 Jan 2019

Saikat Majumdar’s “The Scent of God”

Book Post 26: 3 – 9 February 2019

Extract from “The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution”

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