The author is a Ph.D. candidate in Journalism and Electronic media at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and runs the independently owned Storyteller Bookstore in Kolkata. Storyteller has an extens...

Upcoming I Am Onir and I Am Gay: A Memoir by Onir with Irene Dhar Malik One of the few Bollywood personalities  to come out at a time when it was perhaps unthinkable in this industry, Onir&rsqu...

The Wait by Damodar Mauzo, translated from Konkani by Xavier Cota (Penguin India) 2022 Jnanpith Award winner Damodar Mauzo lives in Goa and writes in Konkani. His collection of short stories have bee...

In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra (HarperCollins India) Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra’s 2017 book Remnants of Separation was applauded for its ...

Loving and letting go brings us to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera where Florentino Ariza teaches us that love is patient and persistent. Falling in love with Fermina who la...

Anupam writes, “Go, find your #ikigai - stay active and never retire” and we completely agree. ...

Casket and Besky are a set of two novellas that are women’s stories told in contrasting light. While Casket narrates the tale of Sanyukta, an archer in Chandennagore who fights against all odds ...

The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris If you’re a Loki fan, you might want to consider this one. The Gospel of Loki brings to light the perspective of the God of Mischief. Tired of being misun...

Loveless by Alice Oseman Aro-ace representation is something that we seldom see in YA novels. Loveless features an aro-ace protagonist, Georgia, who struggles with her identity. The novel takes us th...

Late in 1923, Franz Kafka lived in Berlin with his partner Dora Diamant. Herr Kafka had little money and was suffering from tuberculosis. Despite all that, it was the happiest he had been in a rather ...