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Book review of Naveen Kishore’s ‘Mother Muse Quintet’

Book Review: Naveen Kishore’s ‘Mother Muse Quintet’

Naveen Kishore's 'Mother Muse Quintet' is more than just an ode to the memory of a mother. It is a recognition of beauty in fragility, glory in defiance, refuge in silence, and calm in chaos.

02 April 2023

Book Review: Ananya Chatterjee’s Barefoot On Splintered Glass

Book Review: Ananya Chatterjee’s Barefoot On Splintered Glass

Using the tropes of the seasons in her poems, Ananya Chatterjee has dealt with human relationships and nature interchangeably. The robin-abandoned Gulmohar and the heartbroken human are the same. By doing so, she has given...

05 March 2023

Are writers weak on the whole and determined to persevere on their chosen path against all odds?

Book Review: If I Could Tell You

Detail by detail the narrator takes us through his daughter’s school going, the tension of entrance interviews and all the things that anxious parents are aware of. That is when the book comes to life, the love of Oishi...

26 February 2023

The Trend Breaker:  Kitty Texeira has broken the stereotype of the Anglo-Indian community by marrying a local tribal man

The Custard Apple’s Seed

Kitty Texeira, an Anglo-Indian woman, has been living in McCluskieganj for decades, searching for her identity. An extract from Vikas Kumar Jha’s novel

23 March 2023

Re-canonising Kannada Literature

An anthology of translations brings rare gems of pre-colonial Kannada literature to readers

02 March 2023

Winter evening at Scandal Point

No Scandal At Scandal Point

This was the time when the soon-to-be-famous, Rudyard Kipling came to the ‘summer capital’ of India and its glittering social swirl. Well over a century and a half, after he first put pen to paper, part fiction, part...

26 February 2023

Pico Iyer opens The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise with his wanderings in Iran. Since Persia gave the world that very specific word for the kind of heavenly bliss only found in a garden, Iran is obviously the best place to start.

Book Review: ‘The Half Known Life’ Is The Life’s Struggle To Find Paradise On Earth

‘The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise’ is a combination of musings, travels back in time, and actual wandering. It goes back and forth in time, drawing on Pico Iyer’s travels with his Japanese wife or the...

12 March 2023

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An old-Delhi view.

Book Review: Attribution Before The Storm

The book takes its title from verses by Qadir Baksh a lesser-known Urdu poet who wrote under the takhallus ‘Sabir’ and who referred to the number of houses that the British razed in Delhi, making Liddle’s account of...

18 February 2023

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13 February 2023
Kalinga Literary Festival 2023: A Feat For Literature And Art Enthusiasts

Kalinga Literary Festival 2023: A Feat For Literature And Art Enthusiasts

The KLF has emerged as one of the leading literary platforms in India, attracting both experienced and young litterateurs will be running from February 24 to...


12 February 2023
Chaff And Grain: Dilemmas Of The Criminal Justice System

Chaff And Grain: Dilemmas Of The Criminal Justice System

With three decades of experience as criminal counsel, Vivek Sood has written the book Chaff and Grain: Guilt, Innocence and the Dilemmas of Justice. In this...


11 February 2023
Book Review: Tabish Khair’s New Book Cannot Be Boxed Into A Genre

Book Review: Tabish Khair’s New Book Cannot Be Boxed Into A Genre

The Body by the Shore is a ‘scandinoir’ suspense-mystery thriller that takes the reader on a wild ride on the Danish high seas.


09 February 2023
Book 'Sikh Business Leaders Of India' Exhibits Remarkable Role Of Sikhs Toward India’s Economy

Book 'Sikh Business Leaders Of India' Exhibits Remarkable Role Of Sikhs Toward India’s Economy

The book covers 51 inspirational and motivational sagas of dauntless Sikh heroes so that not only our nation but the whole world sings their contribution. The...


29 January 2023
Book Excerpt: The Nemesis By Manoranjan Byapari

Book Excerpt: The Nemesis By Manoranjan Byapari

An extracted from The Nemesis by Manoranjan Byapari, published in English.


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29 January 2023
Is There A Future For The Short Story?

Is There A Future For The Short Story?

Writer Saeed Ibrahim writes about the debate on short stories that he attended. While the supporters of short stories highlighted accessibility and...


29 January 2023
Bookstagram Is Where Reading Goes To Die

Bookstagram Is Where Reading Goes To Die

Reading is essentially reduced to daily statistics, expediting into uncritical mass consumption where more books are hoarded than read. It has largely come to...


27 January 2023
Eminent Artist Ganesh Shenoy To Release His First Fiction Soon

Eminent Artist Ganesh Shenoy To Release His First Fiction Soon

The book will certainly conjure up and raise the imaginations of readers. The author has endeavoured to meld science with spirituality without lowering the...


22 January 2023
Book Review: ‘Right To Sex’ By Amia Srinivasan Walks Us Through Difficult And Important Conversations

Book Review: ‘Right To Sex’ By Amia Srinivasan Walks Us Through Difficult And Important Conversations

The basis of Amia Srinivasan book is her 2018 essay which generated a debate that prompted her to write more about the public life of sex. The book includes...


22 January 2023
Book Review: ‘The Haunting Of Delhi City’ Tells Delhi’s Stories Through The Eyes Of Its Ghosts And Djinns

Book Review: ‘The Haunting Of Delhi City’ Tells Delhi’s Stories Through The Eyes Of Its Ghosts And Djinns

The authors follow a simple and effective template — they pick a place that resonates with people, walk them through it to build familiarity, and then plunge...


21 January 2023
Snehil Niharika’s Throwback Tribute With A Contemporary Spin

Snehil Niharika’s Throwback Tribute With A Contemporary Spin

‘That’ll Be Our Song’ is deeply sensitive towards the inner complex of those who hover between fantasy and reality. A glimpse from the conversation we...


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19 January 2023
Home Doctor Reviews - Is The Home Doctor Practical Medicine For Every Household Legit?

Home Doctor Reviews - Is The Home Doctor Practical Medicine For Every Household Legit?

The "Home Doctor book" is a practical medicine for every household. It is a book specifically designed for isolated clients and contains all the information...


18 January 2023
INFECTED Book Reviews (2023 Update) Secrets From The Medical Underground (Dr. Ralph LaGuardia) Self Reliance Association

INFECTED Book Reviews (2023 Update) Secrets From The Medical Underground (Dr. Ralph LaGuardia) Self Reliance Association

This article will hint at the novel's major plot and help you decide whether you should buy it or not. In addition, we have mentioned the main features of the...


18 January 2023
KLF Book Awards 2022: Sanjeev Sanyal, Hindol Sengupta Among Awardees, Writers Across Genres To Be Awarded

KLF Book Awards 2022: Sanjeev Sanyal, Hindol Sengupta Among Awardees, Writers Across Genres To Be Awarded

Writers across several genres, such as fiction, non-fiction, environment, and biography, will be felicitated at the annual Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) on...


13 January 2023
E-Books Can Never Replace The Joy Of Flipping Pages

E-Books Can Never Replace The Joy Of Flipping Pages

Writer Anita Agnihotri lamented on the now "forgotten act" of letter writing and recalled penning texts sitting at bookstores during the AKLF literary meet. 


04 January 2023
Spain To Be Theme Country Of International Kolkata Book Fair

Spain To Be Theme Country Of International Kolkata Book Fair

The fair will be held from January 31 to February 12 at the Central Park Mela Ground, which has been newly named Boimela Prangan, in Salt Lake near Kolkata.


21 December 2022
Journey Of Bluerose Publishers: One Of The Best Publishing Houses In India

Journey Of Bluerose Publishers: One Of The Best Publishing Houses In India

One of the best self-publishing houses in India, BlueRose Publishers, whose motto ‘Stories Matter’ again reflects how the right words can be simple, has...


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