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We cannot talk about Indian literature without talking about its rich, impossible-to-capture, and all-fascinating canon of folktales. We bring together folktales from across nooks of India to show you how fascinating, and fundamentally shared, our cultural heritage is. Bonus points, you get to read amazing tales filled with magic and myth, virtue and vice, and absolute wonder.
A personal essays about how literature festivals in India could change with the times.
Here’s a heads up. This is not about how brainless or even forcefully nationalistic Singham Again (dir. Rohit Shetty), is. Masala movies are meant to
Neha Kirpal reviews The Extraordinary Life of Max Bulandi by Sidharth Singh (published by Harper Fiction India, 2024). Mumbai-based writer, filmmaker, and sports producer Sidharth
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Indian literature, while vast, often remains limited in the mainstream. Outside the handful of classics and Booker-winning titles, the vast reservoir of stories and voices
The world we see is often not the only world there is. By extension, the India we see is often not the only India there
If you’ve ever searched for it, you’d quickly notice the scarcity of Indian chess books. Besides Vishwanathan Anand’s excellent memoir, they are rarer to find
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Amritesh Mukherjee curates a list of banned books in India. Books have forever been at the receiving end of power and society, provoking and dissenting.
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![If only appreciating women was as easy as handing out labels! What we often forget is that behind every label is a story—one of struggle, resilience, and a story left untold.
The book ‘Our Stories, Our Struggles’ brings such stories, bringing the harsh realities of violence against women across South Asia—India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka—revealing how deeply ingrained these issues are. It might trigger people who have been through the kind of incidents mentioned in the essays and stories and should avoid them in that case.
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