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Read an Excerpt from Buku Sarkar’s Fantastic Debut NovelRead an Excerpt from Buku Sarkar’s Fantastic Debut Novel
Read an Excerpt from Buku Sarkar’s Fantastic Debut Novel

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Not Quite a Disaster after All is a novel about how our expectations from life shift and change, how they can be pushed in the most unpredictable ways. It is about the thin line between self-destruction and survival. It is, equally, about falling in love-with a person, a city, or simply

Wasim Akram Revisits the 1986 Sharjah Match Against India | Excerpt from ‘Sultan’

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Sultan provides an unprecedented insight into the life – both on and off the field – of a cricketer who revolutionized the sport with his speed and swing, and a patriot buoyed and burdened by the expectations of one of the game’s most fanatical publics. Read an excerpt from the book

Four Poems from ‘Meanwhile’ by Prerna GillFour Poems from ‘Meanwhile’ by Prerna Gill
Four Poems from ‘Meanwhile’ by Prerna Gill

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If our more dramatic moments are beads on a necklace, Meanwhile concerns itself with the thread that connects them. Sometimes it is soft, silken. Sometimes it pulls and tightens around your neck. A beloved heirloom. A pretty noose. Because sometimes the ordinary is far from mundane. Read four poems from

An ode to the everlasting memory of love… | Excerpt from ‘The Book of Everlasting Things’An ode to the everlasting memory of love… | Excerpt from ‘The Book of Everlasting Things’
An ode to the everlasting memory of love… | Excerpt from ‘The Book of Everlasting Things’

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An assured debut novel from historian Aanchal Malhotra, The Book of Everlasting Things is both intimate and sweeping. A story spanning continents and generations, braiding the threads of the past to the future, here is a book which will linger in the reader’s mind like the notes of an unforgettable perfume. Read

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    Excerpts from the Title Story of Benyamin’s New Collection!Excerpts from the Title Story of Benyamin’s New Collection!
    Excerpts from the Title Story of Benyamin’s New Collection!

    Featuring JCB Prize-winning author Benyamin’s finest short fiction, Márquez, EMS, Gulam and Others brings together people, places, lives and times. Translated brilliantly by Swarup B.R., these stories make you ponder about the world we live in, the people who inhabit it, the borders separating us – and the truths and lies

    Love Poems from Vatsyayana’s ‘Kama Sutra’, translated by Abhay KLove Poems from Vatsyayana’s ‘Kama Sutra’, translated by Abhay K
    Love Poems from Vatsyayana’s ‘Kama Sutra’, translated by Abhay K

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    The Book of Bihari Literature, edited and translated by Abhay K., is a vibrant collection of writings-poems, essays, stories-that have flowed from the pens of the great poets, thinkers and writers across millennia, who were born or lived in what is modern-day Bihar. This book makes accessible to English-speaking readers the