Book Name: Tides Don’t Cross Author: Simar Malhotra Publisher: Rupa Genre: Fiction Rating: 3.4/5 Book Blurb: Sparks fly immediately when Rukmani—fierce and assertive in the best and worst possible ways—meets the gentle Ayaan in the magical city Paris. Meanwhile, back in…
THE SIXTH STRING OF VILAYAT KHAN By Namita Devidayal An imaginative, deeply empathetic biography of one of Indian music’s most charismatic figures. Everyone knows Vilayat Khan, but no one knows Vilayat Khan. In this beautifully layered biography, Namita Devidayal presents the ustad:…
Book Name: India Ahead: 2025 and Beyond Author: Bimal Jalan Publisher: Rupa Genre: Non-fiction Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: India’s fundamentals are, no doubt, stronger now than ever before, but the country also faces several old and new challenges in the areas of…
Ethos Literary Festival 2018 (ELF 2018) PRESS RELEASE In a recent tweet the New Asian Writing, an online Asian literary community, has urged, “The Indians are ruining literary festivals. There are more people from Bollywood than real writers. Invite…
Arjun and Anjali, a young, successful, and apparently happily married couple drive from the city to picturesque Kashipur to spend a few weeks at their friend’s summer house. They are well looked after by Shanti, the housekeeper, who takes pains…
‘Nothing’ is about the ancillary or collateral existence of women in traditional Indian set up. They are objects and conduits and means to ends. They are taught to pare down their own selves till they reduce themselves to relationships. The…
MILK TEETH by Amrita Mahale (The first novel of Westland’s Context imprint) Amrita Mahale is an aeronautic engineer by profession, from IIT Bombay and Stanford University, a department topper and also the only woman in her class, who took a…
Bloomsbury to Publish The Restless Girls by Jessie Burton Illustrated by Angela Barrett A dazzling, feminist fairytale from the bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. An essential gift, this inspirational story about family, sisterhood, imagination and bravery is…
Bloomsbury to Publish Yeh Un Dinoñ Ki Baat Hai: Urdu Memoirs of Cinema Legends by Yasir Abbasi A rich and unusual treasure trove of translations from old Urdu magazines that were immensely popular from the 1930s to the 1990s Peppered…
Book Name: The Sane Psychopath Author: Salil Desai Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: Finding inspiration in a real life incident that took place in Pune years ago, where a state transport bus driver went on a rampage on…
Book Name: Secret Diary of an Incurable Romantic (Um… and a closet alcoholic) Author: Chitrangada Mukherjee Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Quirky, honest, and always relatable, Secret Diary… chronicles a year in the life of a recently widowed thirty-year-old woman,…