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Silver Lining by Anu Shivaram: A review

Rajni Anand Luthra -
  A young Indian man in Sydney brings home an Indigenous-Australian girlfriend. A fresh-off-the-boat 7-year-old is bullied at school. An Indian-Australian couple who have travelled to India...

Khooni Vaisakhi: Poem from the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 1919

Indian Link -
  In a moving piece of Punjabi literature, this is Khooni Vaisakhi, a narrative poem by prominent Punjabi writer Nanak Singh. It’s an account of...

Star of Anise: A picture book about Australia’s early Indian hawkers

Rajni Anand Luthra -
  Annie could hear Bhagwan Singh’s wagon before she could see it. It jingled and jangled with its pots and pans as it came down...

Meet 7 yr old published author, Aahana Chakraborty

Mridusmita Haloi -
  Meet our community’s youngest author, seven-year-old Aahana Chakraborty. The Year 2 student has just published her first picture book Buzzz… The Adventures of Lily and...

‘Sita: Now You Know Me’ by Sini Panicker

Indian Link -
  When Indian American writer Sini Panicker, a trained chemist who is a heroin profiler for the US government, began her research into the Ramayana...

Book Review: ‘Ritu weds Chandni’ by Ameya Narvankar

Bageshri Savyasachi -
  "But what is wrong with that? Why shouldn't she marry Chandni didi?," asks Ayesha, the young protagonist in Ameya Narvankar's Ritu weds Chandni. The innocent...

Book review: ‘Tamil: A Biography’ by David Dean Shulman

Chitra Sudarshan -
  It was quite by accident that I stumbled upon a prodigious and erudite scholar of India – especially southern India, during one of my...

Book Review: Raj & Norah

Indian Link -
  Raj & Norah by Peter R Kohli and his daughter Shania Kohli Russo is not only a thrilling account of love found, lost and...

Book Review: ‘Kamala’s Way’ by Dan Morain

Indian Link -
  Just how did the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this countrys most effective power players? Through the human touch,...

5 powerful poems by the brilliant Javed Akhtar

Indian Link -
  A celebrated lyricist and the recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry, Javed Akhtar's name is synonymous with soul-wrenching, evocative writing.  His...

India’s 71-Year Test: a coffee table book

Ritam Mitra -
  For a sport with as storied a history as cricket, books on its past are unsurprisingly a dime a dozen. Given its origins, the...

5 memorable quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Indian Link -
  Best known for writing The Jungle Book, Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling lives on in the hearts of many literature lovers. He's also a...
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