Eid Stories

16 06 , 2018 1 Comment
Today is Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated after a month of Ramzan. Scholastic India published a slim collection of stories to celebrate the festival called Eid Stories. New
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DK Reference books for children

15 06 , 2018 No Comments
Quite often adults seek age appropriate non-fiction books for their children/students that will give authentic information. In the information age where plenty of free “content”
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Jane Harris’s “Sugar Money”

15 06 , 2018 No Comments
‘All those slave, the friars bought with borrowed money.’ ‘Who told you that?’ ‘Father Prudence, years agone. They took a loan from the French government
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“Sorry, Best Friend!”

15 06 , 2018 No Comments
Sorry, Best Friend! is a collection of stories edited by noted writers Githa Hariharan and late Shama Futehally. The stories are about children discovering / encountering
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V. S. Pritchett’s “The Oxford Book of Short Stories”

15 06 , 2018 No Comments
An extract from V. S. Pritchett’s introduction to The Oxford Book of Short Stories, published in 1981. ***** This anthology is a selection of short stories
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Abir Mukherjee’s Capt. Sam Wyndham novels

14 06 , 2018 No Comments
Crime writer-cum-accountant Abir Mukherjee has written three novels — A Rising Man  (2016), A Necessary Evil (2017), Smoke and Ashes (2018) . These novels feature opium addict Capt. Sam Wyndham, former
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“Kama” by Jaya Misra

13 06 , 2018 No Comments
Jaya Misra’s erotic novel Kama: The Story of the Kama Sutra is about Vatsayayana who wrote Kamasutra. Set in 273 AD Jaya Misra’s Kama is a fictionalised account of 
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“Crudo: A Novel” by Olivia Lang

12 06 , 2018 No Comments
Kim Jong-un had called Trump a dotard, perhaps they’d all be blown to smithereens. Still, ants at least would proceed, building up their infinite cities,
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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018

07 06 , 2018 No Comments
The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 was founded in 1996, the Prize was set up for “excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in
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“The Serpent’s Secret” by Sayantani Dasgupta

31 05 , 2018 No Comments
“Dark energy. It’s the energy that helps the universe keep expanding. You might call it a part of the universal life force.”  That sounded vaguely
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