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Bedtime stories and bookworms: The art of Indian storytelling

  I recall late nights, pleading with my dad to let me stay up just an hour longer to hear another story. These weren’t tales...

I borrowed my first books in Mumbai. Now, Sydney’s libraries are home

Love of libraries The long arm of the library has made a writer of me. This long arm, a composite of many libraries, created the...

Drishti Tolani’s My Little Dharma series

Drishti Tolani In Drishti Tolani’s book “Tied Up with Love,” a young boy visits a children’s hospital to tie rakhis. In “Let’s Get Lit for...

Top 10 books of 2025 by Indian writers

  1. Banu Mushtaq The Heart Lamp  Banu Mushtaq has well and truly earned her place in the literary canon with her collection of heartrending short...

In conversation with Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar on First Peoples stories

  Filing into UNSW on a Wednesday evening were a group of authors, academics, and book lovers raring to hear award winning Santal writer Hansda...

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...
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