“Baby Doll” by Gracy, translated by Fathima E.V.

05 03 , 2021 No Comments
Baby Doll by Gracy is a very bold, sparkling and forthright collection of short stories, written over a span of thirty years. The stories have
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Chris Power’s “A Lonely Man”

01 03 , 2021 No Comments
Chris Power’s debut novel, A Lonely Man ( Faber and Faber) gets a little tough to read in the middle due to the complexity of
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Books discussing being a Muslim

01 03 , 2021 No Comments
A tiny, tiny drop of the literature being published currently discussing what it means to be a Muslim. Or even bringing up a Muslim child.
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Christina Lamb, “Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women”

25 02 , 2021 No Comments
In 2005, I had worked as part of a global team on a seminal report published by UNRISD called Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in
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Kristin Hannah’s “The Four Winds”

22 02 , 2021 No Comments
Mega-selling, lawyer-turned-writer Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds is set at the time of the Great Depression, in the Dust Bowl era.It is about Elsa Martinelli
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“The Time Of The Peacock” by Siddharth Chowdhury

20 02 , 2021 No Comments
The Time Of The Peacock by Siddharth Chowdhury is fabulous. It is published by Aleph Book Company. Fiction that is thinly veiled account of contemporary Indian publishing is
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“Leonard and Hungry Paul” by Ronan Hession

20 02 , 2021 No Comments
This is an utterly charming, sweet, heartwarming novel about two shy men — Leonard and Hungry Paul. Why he is called “Hungry” is never explained.
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Nikesh Shukla’s “Brown Baby”

20 02 , 2021 No Comments
In 2019, en route to attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, Nikesh Shukla lost his necklace at Heathrow Airport. It was very precious as it contained
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DK Books – Excellent resource material

20 02 , 2021 No Comments
A pile of Dorling Kindersley books that Sarah has amassed over the years. They form the core of her library. An absolutely brilliant set of
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Raza Mir’s “Murder at the Mushaira”

20 02 , 2021 No Comments
Raza Mir’s debut novel, Murder At TheMushaira, is a charming historical fiction set in Delhi, 1857. It is set brilliantly in the midst of the
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