For a major part of my life, I never really considered myself as a writer. I always thought that any art, including writing, was a skill that only the naturally talented could take up. So, after my essay recital in school one day was followed by a classmate narrating her kickass two-pager that left mouths […]
Flipping the pages of a new book is a joy only fellow book lovers can understand. Here is the list of non-fiction reads by Indian women authors to look forward to in 2019. My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy (Allen Lane) This 1000-page sure-shot classic and collectible features Arundhati Roy’s complete non-fiction work during a two-decade […]
‘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. […]
Women are rising up the ranks at the workplace and in business. And as they do, we are hearing more and more of their stories, and the stories that they are telling. Gone are the days when business books were written for and by only men. We have curated a list of the best books […]
Sakshama Puri Dhariwal’s loud Punjabi family admittedly makes appearances in her books. The author who has done her B.Com from Delhi University and also an MBA in Marketing has spent hours in her college lawns discussing books and movies with her friends. And now, she has followed up her bestselling debut book Wedding Photographer with […]
I have the bad habit of putting authors on a pedestal. After all, these are people whose words have often bestowed me with a sense of inherent optimism, sometimes dismay, made me feel things that actual human beings couldn’t. I am a journalist who is supposed to be objective and sharp but I am also […]
A National-award winning writer, scholar and filmmaker, Roopa Swaminathan had always wanted to explore the power of Indian cinema and the impact it has made outside of India. Given how much America has leveraged its soft power muscle by way of Hollywood, rap music, basketball and other aspects of its culture – she wondered if […]
In 2006, legal journalist Sharmeen Hakim was at her godmother’s house in Churchgate, Mumbai after a long day at school when she heard of the train blasts, which were orchestrated by the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (the ISI). Within six minutes, seven blasts rocked the city at seven railway stations, killing 189 […]
It seems like everyone’s writing a book today. Everywhere you look, there’s a celebrity waving his or her memoirs on your TV screen. And since Bollywood has such a significant influence on Indians, it’s a matter of time before every single person you know will start wielding the pen. If you dream of being an […]
When it comes to Indian authors who write horror books, we tend to ignore the genre altogether. But here are some Indian women authors who seek to change the way we think or read in India. These authors will leave you mortified with their spine-chilling stories.
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