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Sangu Mandanna, Writer

The Bengaluru-born writer, who lives in England, reminisces about literary women she looked up to but could never identify with, and how that impacted her as an author of fantastical fictional tales inspired by Indian mythology
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Aisha Saeed, Pakistani-American author
January 14, 2019

The best-selling Pakistani-American author talks to Verve about complex identities, multicultural teenage romances, and staying true to her roots
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A Respectable Woman, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Book, Books, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Easterine Kire, Featured, Gun Island, Himanjali Sankar, Malala Yousafzai, My Seditious Heart, Online Exclusive, Read, Reading, Saikat Majumdar, The Forest of Enchantments, The Lies We Tell, The Scent of God, We Are Displaced

7 Books To Look Forward To In 2019

Text by Shubham Ladha

New year, new resolutions and of course, new books
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Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Bernadette Van Gelder, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, Bill Cunningham, Book, Books, Calcutta Then | Kolkata Now, Coffee Table Books, Dronescapes, Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs, Featured, Hockey India, Imagery, Indrajit Hazra, Inside North Korea, Jane Mount, Lynsey Addario, Nathan Williams, Of Love And War, Oliver Wainwright, Online Exclusive, Pain and Dreams, Pink: The History of a Punk, Powerful Color, Pretty, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, The Eye: How the World’s Most Influential Creative Directors Develop Their Vision, The Golden Smile Of India, The Illustrated History of Indian Hockey: A Saga of Triumph, Valerie Steele Share on:

The Most Beautiful Books of 2018

Text by Shubham Ladha

In these collectable coffee-table books, each picture is worth more than a 1000 words
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Amazon Books, Bhavi Mehta, book cover design, book cover designers, Books, Featured, Hachette India, Harper Collins India, Mugdha Sadhwani, Online Exclusive, Pan Macmillan India, publishing houses, Rupa Publications, Saurav Das, Semy Haitenlo, Vishwajyoti Ghosh

5 cover designers from top publishing houses in the country tell us how the fate of a book is sealed by the impact its cover creates....
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A Is For Activist, Alisha Almeida, Anusha Hariharan, Books, Breaking Gender Stereotypes, Cat Clarke, Children's Books, Children's Literature, Cornelia Funke, Cory Silverberg, Daniel Roode, Defying Gender Stereotypes, Dougal MacPherson, Featured, Feelings and You, Feminism, Feminist Baby, Fiona Smyth, Geeta Dharmarajan, Gender, Gender Expression, Gender Identity, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Talk — Big Hero. Size Zero., Inclusion, Inclusivity, Innosanto Nagara, Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship, Jessica Walton, Joan Holub, Kerstin Meyer, Lachmi's War, Loryn Brantz, Maya Gonzalez, Meghna Chaudhury, Michael Martchenko, Munro Leaf, Niveditha Subramaniam, Online Exclusive, Picture Books, Pirate Girl, Rajni Perera, Read, Reading, Robert Lawson, Robert Munsch, Sex is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Shashi Setty, Sowmya Rajendran, The Boy & The Bindi, The Gender Wheel, The Irrelevant Project Box Set, The Pants Project, The Paper Bag Princess, The story of Ferdinand, This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer, Vivek Shraya

There’s beauty in diversity, and that’s an important lesson to learn as a kid
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Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim
November 19, 2018

The former style editor connects the dots from reality to fiction in an interaction with Sholeen Damarwala
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#MeToo, #TimesUp, A Room of One's Own, Australia, Canada, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Egypt, Elena Favilli, Elif Shafak, Featured, Feminism, Feminist Stories, Feminst Books, France, Francesca Cavallo, Germaine Greer, Goodnight Stories For Rebel Girls, Headscarves & Hymens, India, Iran, Italy, Margaret Atwood, Marjane Satrapi, Mona Eltahawy, Nigeria, NoViolet Bulawayo, Online Exclusive, Persepolis, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Bell Jar, The Female Eunuch, The Handmaid's Tale, The Second Sex, Turkey, Under Western Eyes, United Kingdom, United States, Virginia Woolf, We Need New Names, We Should All Be Feminists, Zimbabwe
November 14, 2018

A comprehensive list of books from all over the world that help navigate the true meaning and impact of feminism
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Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Authors, best books, Books, Deborah Moggach, Eran Hadas, Featured, Literature festivals, Molly Crabapple, Online Exclusive, Susannah Clapp, Tata Literature Live! Festival 2018

Plus, where to catch them and what to read before you do
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Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Rabbit & The Squirrel — A Love Story About Friendship, Award-winning author

His latest work The Rabbit & The Squirrel — A Love Story About Friendship is a touching fable, exploring the nuances of relationships. Award-winning author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi writes about why sometimes silence really is golden
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Andal, Books, Exclusive, Featured, Kodhai, Online, Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen Of Jasmine Country
October 26, 2018

Sharanya Manivannan, author and poet, and poet-saint Andal are separated by hundreds of years. And yet, Manivannan reimagines Andal’s childhood in a debut novel that feels as fresh and relevant to our times as it is to the ninth century
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Kalpana Swaminathan

What’s it like for authors to grow with protagonists that they write about over multiple books? Acclaimed writer Kalpana Swaminathan talks about her favourite leading lady, Lalli the detective, from her series of crime mysteries
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