Children’s Day special: 12 lovely books for kids of all ages
Celebrate the joy of reading this Children’s Day with our hand-picked list of 12 delightful new books – perfect for curious, creative and fun-loving kids of every age!
Tag: fiction
Hyphenated worlds: Marjan Kamali’s fiction and the real-life resistance of Iranian women
Marjan Kamali’s bestselling novels capture the struggles of Iranian women caught between their homeland and adopted countries, between past and present, emphasising both the power of memory and the pain of loss.
12 books to keep children engrossed in the summer holidays
From books on environment to space, history, dogs, friendship, horror and wellbeing, we’ve got little readers of all ages covered for the long, hot summer vacations ahead!
10 exciting new books for the kids to cuddle up with this winter
Winter break is here, and it’s the perfect time for the kids to dive into reading! Here’s a curated list of engaging new books for children from India, featuring a mix of fiction and non-fiction on themes like space, pets, girl power, the Indian freedom struggle, and more!
Love, murder, self-discovery: 3 novels you must read before the year is done!
Fiction lovers, we have three awesome recommendations for you this month – new novels from Kiran Manral, Puneet Sikka and Preeti Shenoy. Start reading!
3 fun and feminist new fiction titles to spice up the festive season
These 3 new novels offer excitement and a modern perspective this month. Nisha Sharma’s ‘Marriage and Masti’ rewrites a Shakespearean rom-com. Kirti Bhadresa’s ‘An Astonishment of Stars’ illuminates the lives of BIPOC women in Canada. And Anisha Lalvani’s ‘Girls Who Stray’ delves into crime and youth culture in Delhi.
4 exciting new novels by women authors releasing this October
We’re covering upcoming new fiction titles by Nayantara Violet Alva, Farzana Doctor, Trisha Das and Akshita Nanda.
These 5 books on Partition highlight hope amidst conflict and the human cost of Independence
These five works of fiction by women authors are set against the backdrop of the Independence and Partition of India, and inspire us with their strong, resilient characters who survive turbulent times.
A spectacular Lahore fantasy: Heeramandi, Kalank and their fictional tawaifs
A Lahore student compares the web series ‘Heeramandi’ and film ‘Kalank’, both centred on Partition-era Lahore courtesans, and finds that both period dramas fail to capture the tawaifs’ history and the city’s significance, which remain misrepresented in Bollywood’s romanticised gaze.
4 renowned Indian novelists feature in eShe panel at Ananke Women in Literature Festival 2024
eShe will host a panel discussion on the subject of ‘Love in Books and Life: Romance and the Female Gaze’ at Ananke’s upcoming Women in Literature Festival 2024.
eShe TV: 4 Indian novelists on female protagonists and young-adult literature
Do the youth look up to strong female protagonists in books? Who decides one kind of literature is for women and another for men? Authors Shalini Mullick, Salini Vineeth, Preetha Vasan and Arva Bhavnagarwala share their views on eShe TV.
50 years on, the exodus of South Asians from Uganda finds retelling in three debut novels
This year marks 50 years since Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expelled South Asians from his country. We put the spotlight on three recent novels by women writers that dwell on this event in world history.
‘The Black Magic Women’: Dr Moushumi Kandali on Northeastern women, myths and discrimination
Dr Moushumi Kandali’s new book takes up the biases that people from India’s Northeast, particularly Assamese women, face in the rest of the country.
“In a society that is becoming more and more unequal, the internet has not been of help in equalizing the gaps” – Vaasanthi
An interview of bilingual author Vaasanthi whose latest book lays bare the gender, caste and class inequalities in the country while offering a ray of humanity and hope
Truths Pushed Through the Sieve of Fiction: Rijula Das on Her Debut Novel Set in Shonagachhi
Rijula Das’s new novel brings up many facets of Kolkata’s red-light district, from corruption and gender violence to the effect of demonetisation on the flesh trade.
The Pandemic Through the Eyes and Reading List of a Bibliophile
From children’s books to romances to essays of healing and hope, Dr Shalini Mullick takes us through her reading list that evolved as India’s Covid crisis hit a peak.
eShe Book Launch: ‘Everything Changed After That: 25 Women, 25 Stories’
eShe’s first book ‘Everything Changed After That: 25 Women, 25 Stories’ was launched at a virtual event on 25th February attended by all 25 authors.
“The Power-Hungry Harness Hatred to Win Elections” – Journalist-Author Deepa Anappara
Deepa Anappara’s critically acclaimed debut novel ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ drew from her work as a journalist reporting on the impact of poverty and religious violence.
45 Sketches to Stories: How My Office Doodles Became a Collective Blog Project
Usha Iyer invited friends and family to write stories based on sketches she had made doodling in office. The results were enthralling.
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