Arshia Sattar’s “Ramayana” for children

Arshia Sattar’s Ramayana for Children is based on the original Sanskrit text of Valmiki. As she writes in a recently published article “…although there are ‘three hundred
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Shirley Jackson

< Love this!> #ShirleyJackson “The #NovelistDisguised As a #Housewife” Shirley Jackson wrote 17 books while raising four children — and she couldn’t have had a
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Chris Riddell on the importance of reading out aloud

These pictures have been downloaded from Chris Riddell’s personal page on Facebook and shared with his permission.    The Scholastic India released the Kids &
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Press Release: Jeet Thayil announces a new book with Aleph

Aleph Book Company is delighted to announce that it will be publishing Jeet Thayil’s new novel, The Book of  Chocolate Saints, in 2017. This book
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Press Release: “Harry Hole is Back!”

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! Harvill Secker announce Harry Hole’s return in a new JO NESBO novel in 2017 THE THIRST by JO NESBO will be
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Press Release: V.S. Naipaul’s THE INDIAN TRILOGY (with an Introduction by Paul Theroux)

THIS OCTOBER PICADOR    INDIA  publishes V.S. Naipaul’s  THE INDIAN TRILOGY   (with an Introduction by Paul Theroux)   IMPRINT: PICADOR INDIA ISBN: 9789382616900 MRP: INR 799
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Volga “The Liberation of Sita”

‘Till you take decisions for Rama’s sake and not yours, it will continue to pursue you, Sita. Look at yourself. You are enduring great pain.
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Literature on mental health

This past month I have spent a while reading literature about mental health. It was sparked off by the publication of the maginificent collection of
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Wyl Menmuir, “The Many”

Timothy has come to resurrect Perran. He has come to destroy Perran’s house, to erase his memory. He’s come because that’s what upcountry folk do, to replace the
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Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian”, translated by Deborah Smith

She was crouching, still wearing her nightclothes, her dishevelled, tangled hair a shapeless mass around her face. Around her,  the kitchen floor was covered with
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