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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.
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Amritesh Mukherjee curates a list of Indian actors who became authors for your TBR. You often see artists switching mediums, an actor becoming a producer,
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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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