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Devika Rani was an enigma to most – but not anymore (Book Review)

  "I hope that I have managed to establish who Devika Rani really was. A rebellious and unusually talented and beautiful woman, a great actress...

Cross Your Heart, Take My Name by Novoneel Chakraborty: A review

  Cross Your Heart, Take My Name is a rare Indian book to explore the psychological impact of social media, especially Instagram. Garv Roy Gill and...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on ‘The Last Queen’ and women empowerment

  Reading about the Kohinoor diamond and how it was taken by the British from Maharaja Dalip Singh and given to Queen Victoria, writer Chitra...

4 Indian female poets you need to read

As more and more female poets publish their works as collections and anthologies, modern Indian literature is enriched with diverse voices and expressions of...

8 Indian and 6 Oz kids help illustrate JK Rowling’s new book

  J.K. Rowling's latest offering The Ickabog has fired up the imaginations of young readers worldwide, with 18,000 responses to a competition (for the 7-to-12...

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar on “Girls and the City” and #MeToo

A trained engineer who went to IIM Calcutta, left a decade-long corporate career, and completed a Creative Writing course in the US, Manreet Sodhi...

The Incredible History Of The Indian Ocean (Book Review)

The Indian Ocean is an ocean as vast as the sub-continent whose name it bears, encompassing Asia to the north, Australia to the east,...

Mission Bengal: How the state went from ‘Laal Salaam’ to ‘Jai Shri Ram’

"Mission Bengal: A saffron experiment" by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya is an in-depth look at how Bengal went from 'Laal Salaam' to 'Jai Shri Ram' in...

It’s been a long, difficult journey: Booker longlisted author Avni Doshi

It‘s been a "long and difficult" journey spread over seven years and eight drafts, says author Avni Doshi, whose novel Burnt Sugar, about a...

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