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Sadly I cannot recommend my own book, The Lotus Queen! There are however a wide variety of historical books out there right now by authors such as I. Sundaresan and ...
I have just read, and can highly recommend, the Folktales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. Its a little dated, written over a hundred years ago by a Britisher, bu...
A festival with a difference
Over April 21 and 22, Mumbai hosted its first literary festival for children. Held in the sprawling grounds of St Anthony’s School in Chembur in the city’s eastern suburbs, it was a wonderful occasion, filled with writing workshops, storytelling sessions, panel discussions, and much more. It was very heartening to...
Funny and furiousAfter the disappointment of his last book, The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq – called, among other things, “France’s greatest literary export” – returns to his audacious, sardonic self in his new novel, The Map and the Territory. While a lot is made of Houellebecq’s nihilism and despair (Elementary Particles,...
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Sadly I cannot recommend my own book, The Lotus Queen! There are however a wide variety of historical books out there right now by authors such as I. Sundaresan and ...
I have just read, and can highly recommend, the Folktales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. Its a little dated, written over a hundred years ago by a Britisher, bu...