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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai’s Booker shortlist

  Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006....

Mukta Gilda: the dawn of a budding author in ‘Twilight’

  “Books are a world filled with imagination and discovery, like portals to another world,” says 11-year-old Sydneysider Mukta Gilda, author of her very own...

Shilpa Wason’s debut poetry collection is for ‘every immigrant’

  “Migration shifts your relationship to home forever. You can visit the same house, walk the same streets, smell the same rain, but it is...

Book Review: Nikhil Kulkarni’s My Summer of Cricket

  Last summer’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy had no shortage of stories - from record crowds and the rise of a new generation to fiery punditry that...

These bilingual picture books teach immigrant kids to stay connected to their roots

  For Auckland writer Dr Aruna Shekar, memories of Chennai are close at hand. The auto rides to the beach and the railway station, the...

Book Review: Mother Mary Comes to Me

  Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me is a testament to the one presence that shaped her most — her mother’s rage, searing and...

From Mysuru to Melbourne: Aman J. Bedi’s fantasy earns global recognition

  When Aman J. Bedi sits down to write, the weight of his journey, from Mysuru to Vizag, Bengaluru, Bangkok, Christchurch, and now Melbourne, inevitably...
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