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An interview with Roanna Gonsalves

Roanna Gonsalves is from India. She earned her PhD from the University of New South Wales. She teaches creative writing workshops within communities, schools, and
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On business and management books by Vaynerchuk, Taleb, Rosling, et al

27 06 , 2018 No Comments

Reading business and management books can be an interesting experience. Usually an entire book of approximately 300 pages has a single idea to discuss and
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Beck Dorey-Stein’s “From the corner of the Oval office”

26 06 , 2018 No Comments

“The Vagiants,” she says with a half smile. Hope goes on to explain that after President Obama took office in 2009, there was widespread criticism
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“Less” by Andrew Sean Greer

25 06 , 2018 No Comments

Arthur Less has been here for three days; he is in New York to interview famous science fiction author H.H.H. Mandern onstage to celebrate the
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“I’m a REAL Boy” by Clayton Koh

22 06 , 2018 2 Comments

The idea of masculinity which dominates across societies around the world is that of a heterosexual male oozing testosterone. The moment a male shows signs
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Sarah Moon’s “Sparrow”

21 06 , 2018 No Comments

And then there it is, our new, terrible silent routine. And to top it off, I have no birds and the world feels like a
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Siddhesh Inamdar’s “The Story of a Long-Distance Marriage”

19 06 , 2018 No Comments

Instead of muddling up so many things in your head, why can’t you simply be with me? Here. In the moment. Siddhesh Inamdar’s debut novel The
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Shandana Minhas’s “Rafina”

19 06 , 2018 No Comments

Shandana Minhas is a publisher and a writer. She established her independent publishing firm Mongrel Books recently. ( I interviewed her in 2017 for Bookwitty.) Rafina:A
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Clarification on painting supposedly depicting “Eid ka Chand”

17 06 , 2018 No Comments

Publisher Indu Chandrasekhar posted this message on her Facebook page today saying: The painting [above], which seems to have been shared widely by several of
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Manu Pillai’s “Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji”