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A not-so-samajdar-beti decides to take a year off from academia, fly off to the city of her birth, and start working on her first novel.
Madhuri Banerjee, author of bestselling novel Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas spoke to us about her book, love, lust, and what losing one’s virginity might mean to people in India.
Omair Ahmad paints a vivid picture through his carefully constructed, true-to-life characters in this socially and politically relevant novel.
28 vignettes of campus life, covering the Amazing Technicolor Life that school and college are made out to be.
Arjun Rao, author of Third Best, in an exclusive interview about life as a student and teacher in Indian boarding schools.
The mystery remains intact in Ruskin Bond’s original short story, and the suspense is held captive under a gravestone—or seven.
The Fakir is a simple tale with an important social message in a world where material things define boundaries between human beings.
Emma Donoghue’s award-winning book is devastating, tough, moving, tragic, and funny, all at the same time.
Iranian-born author Abbas Kazerooni spoke to us about what made him want to share his remarkable story of hope, survival, and growing up in On Two Feet and Wings.
Award-winning author Pallavi Aiyar speaks to us about her latest novel Chinese Whiskers and life in China.
Utpal Dutt revisits the racial discrimination, injustice, and denial of human rights as witnessed in the Scottsboro trials of 1931.
