Set in Pakistan and the UK, Hijabistan by Sabyn Javeri is a collection of short stories which explores the lives of women crushed under the weight of the all-encompassing veil and those who feel sheltered by it. An excerpt from ‘The Adulteress’: The shrill ringing of the phone broke into her thoughts and she looked […]

Adithi Rao’s Left from the Nameless Shop is a collection of stories set in the 1980s featuring the residents of Rudrapura, a fictitious town in Karnataka. An excerpt from “Wife”: Their eyes met and the woman smiled, and Maithili wondered how she had thought her to be plain. In fact, she was beautiful. Maithili felt Tayavva stiffen […]

Rishi Piparaiya’s Job Be Damned – Work less, Career Success, is a wise and witty guide to climbing up the career ladder. An extract on “Appraisal Discussions”:  The mother of all feedback sessions is the annual performance appraisal. Positioned as an employee development initiative, it is simply an attempt to mess with your mind by […]

‘Kuch nahi laaye the. We brought nothing. We came with nothing, was an inevitable first response that oral historian Aanchal Malhotra was meted out with when she asked own family about their belongings from 1947. The partition of India, had displaced an estimated 10-12 million people. Soon enough, she discovered her great grandmother’s maang tika. […]

Ex-Publisher and Chief Editor at HarperCollins India is to start a new publishing division for Amazon owned Westland Publishers. She had stepped down from HarperCollins last year, shocking the publishing industry and creating much speculation about what she would do next. The new division that she will head at Westland will focus on literary and […]

By Kanchana Banerjee By Invite I had a dream. Everyone has dreams but mine has been with me for years. It was a quiet murmur, a soft whisper which gradually grew louder. In the recent years it began screaming in my ears. Not letting me sleep. When will you write the book you’ve always dreamt […]

Publisher and chief editor of HarperCollins India, V K Karthika, has resigned from the post after spending 10 years with the company. Karthika started her career at Penguin India in 1996, where she spent 10 years before joining HarperCollins India. She has published some of the biggest literary and commercial names in India, including Manu […]