Book Name: By God: The Making of a Messiah Author: Shashi Warrier Genre: Fiction Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: Ghublistan. An island resplendent with the divine herb. A country rich in bat Guano. A society where people are content,…
I stitch words for a ballad & decorate these on my page When I open the page It’s only a tabula rasa … Where are my chosen words? Where is my favorite ballad? In utter disgust, I look up The…
A solid, engaging, well-researched book on the history of the Indian state’s interaction with technological innovation and scientific progress Viking | 256 pages| Hardback| Non Fiction/Technology/History/Politics About the Book Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen,…
Book Name: So Now You Know: Growing up Gay in India Author: Vivek Tejuja Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Memoir Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: The year was 1991. Vivek was eight. He realized he was gay. Only he didn’t: he just…
Superb, subtle, surprising stories that show, through a prism of unforgettable characters, what it means to live between two worlds: India and Canada About the Book A swimming instructor is determined to re-enact John Cheever’s iconic short story, ‘The Swimmer’, in…
How would we know the difference in the flight of dragon-flies? Could you tell the stellar of the un-said, bursting Into a million fragments. Snow-fall is a ridiculous assessment of love, It is actually permitted to park here. When the…
A special and definitive biography of the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak on the occasion of his 550th birth anniversary Viking | 264 pages| Hardback| Religion/History/Biography About the Book In this highly accessible and comprehensive biography, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh deftly mines…
The editors would like to thank all who participated. The prize winning entries for NAW Short Story Competition 2019 are: Belonging by Satish Tiwari Satish Tiwari was born in Kerala and worked as a journalist for many years. After an early…
Love is not complicated, people are! Pyaar, Mohabbat, Ishq, Junoon—Love has its own synonyms. The four-letter word, easy to spell and easier to say, is far more complicated when the brain and heart play their parts in a relationship. Aditya,…
Say hi to Rumana. A freshly minted (baked?) chef who decides to trade her powersuit for chef’s whites to live her dream of owning a café. Cut to six months later and there is Not Too Sweet, a gorgeous little…
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END. Kalki Hari arrives at Indragarh to find out that his brother has been taken prisoner, his beloved is about to be butchered, and the city is embroiled in a ghastly war with the…