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Guest Post: Juggi Bhasin “Different roads, one destination”

Juggi Bhasin is a successful writer who ” living out fulfilling a lifelong ambition: to become a writer”. Earlier this month he began serialising
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Scholastic India literary residency for children, July 2017, New Delhi

12 09 , 2017 No Comments

Scholastic India is celebrating its twentieth year of existence in India. In these two decades it has established itself as a leading publishing firm of
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Of holy men like Rasputin

11 09 , 2017 No Comments

Douglas Smith’s Rasputin is a detailed and a fascinating biography of a holy man who was extremely close to Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. It is
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“Lab Girl: A Story of trees, science and love” by Hope Jahren

09 09 , 2017 No Comments

My strongest memory of our garden is not how it smelled or even looked, but how it sounded. It might strike you as fantastic, but
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The Erotic in the Indian Imagination

08 09 , 2017 1 Comment

Amrita Narayanan has edited Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica , an anthology consisting of extracts from literature published in India over centuries. There
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Scholastic India celebrates International Literacy Day ( 8 September 2017)

08 09 , 2017 No Comments

Scholastic India to Participate in International Literacy Day to Promote Literacy as an Instrument to Empower Individuals, Communities and Societies New Delhi, 8th September 2017 –
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Interview with Shikhandin

08 09 , 2017 No Comments

My interview with Shikhandin was published in Scroll on Sunday, 10 September 2017 as “‘The writer in me doesn’t have a gender, or is made
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s “Everybody Lies: What the Internet can really tell us about who we really are”

05 09 , 2017 No Comments

I can’t pretend there isn’t a darkness in some of this data. If people consistently tell us what they think we want to hear, we
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Angela Duckworth’s “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”

03 09 , 2017 No Comments

“Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you’re willing to stay loyal to it.” Angela Duckworth‘s Grit: The Power of Passion
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David Walliams’s “The World’s Worst Children 2”