
Books of the week: From Aravind Mallagatti's Karya to Ashok Ferrey's The Unmarriageable Man, our picks
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Books of the week: From Love Letters from Golok to Manjima Bhattacharjya Intimate City, our picks
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Books of the week: From short story collection The Demoness to Ghazala Wahab's Born A Muslim, our picks
Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar.

Readers take to 'cosy' mystery books that offer a calming experience without the violence of murder thrillers
The 'cosy' mysteries genre’s parameters are few: no swearing, no sex, and little to no gore. Just what the pandemic-era doctor ordered.

In Memory of Memory: Maria Stepanova shares scraps of her familial past and paints a poignant portrait of her roots
If you appreciate sifting through boxes of anonymous photos at an antiques store — that spur to emotional imagination — then at least some of In Memory of Memory will scratch an itch.

Books of the week: From Meena Kandasamy's The Orders Were to Rape You to Gracy's Baby Doll, our picks
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Books of the week: From a translation of Sane Guruji's Shyamchi Aai to Yashaswini Chandra's The Tale of the Horse, our picks
Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar.

Amitav Ghosh on his book Jungle Nama, folk traditions: 'We have to find ways to make reading collaborative'
Through his new book Jungle Nama — written completely in verse, with artwork by Salman Toor — the writer wishes to uphold and celebrate folk traditions of storytelling by engaging with diverse mediums such as audiobooks, graphic novels and video-gaming.

Priyanka Chopra reveals in Unfinished how Thamizhan co-star Thalapathy Vijay taught her humility
Priyanka Chopra wrote in Unfinished that Thalapathy Vijay's friendliness with his fans was crucial when she was interacting with her's on the sets of Quantico

Books of the week: From Priyanka Chopra Jonas' memoir to Fakir Mohan Senapati's Six and a Third Acres, our picks
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Books of the week: From Kaajal Oza Vaidya's Krishnayan to Manada Devi’s An Educated Woman in Prostitution, our picks
Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar.

Bhanu Kapil wins 2020 TS Eliot Poetry Prize for How to Wash a Heart; judges laud 'formidable' work
How to Wash a Heart explores the relationship between an immigrant guest and a citizen host.

Books of the week: From Avinuo Kire's The Last Light of Glory Days to Vijay Kichlu's biography, our picks
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In Bhairavi, Shivani’s thundering response to the patriarchy is also a mirror to selective activism
Mrinal Pande talks to Firstpost about how her mother's recently translated novel is an exaggeration of her own struggles.

Books of the week: From Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Last Queen to Ashish Khetan’s Undercover, our picks
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Books of the week: From Raza Mir's Murder at the Mushaira to Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Exiled from Ayodhya, our picks
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N Kalyan Raman on Salma’s writing style in The Curse, his approach to translating, and the lack of literary discourse
Salma doesn’t mince words, there is no modulation or playing down. She’s very even-toned but she doesn’t hold back, says N Kalyan Raman of the Tamil author's powerful style.

From Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague to Manu S Pillai’s The World of Raja Ravi Varma, 20 books to look forward to in 2021
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Books of the week: From Rachel Shihor's Yankinton to Kishwar Desai’s The Longest Kiss, our picks
Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar.

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, noted Urdu poet-critic and Padma Shri awardee, passes away at 85
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi was conferred with the Saraswati Samman in 1996 for his work Sher-e-Shor Angez. In 2009, the Government of India conferred upon him the Padma Shri.