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Doshi’s Booker shot and a memory reboot

Avni Doshi’s debut novel on the longlist for the Booker prize is apiece with a welcome trend of women writers addressing issues dominated by male documentation and commentary

1 min read29 Jul 2020
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Can India’s richest prize, JCB Prize for Literature, save literary fiction?

The JCB Prize for Literature, worth Rs25 lakh, has 'enormous ambitions'

5 min read15 Mar 2018
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Jaipur Literature Festival cheat sheet

Here's how you can make the most of the festival

3 min read2 Sep 2021
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Penguin Fever is here

Penguin Random House has kicked off the ninth edition of its annual festival on Thursday

2 min read26 Oct 2017
Industry

Will Arundhati Roy get a second Booker prize?

Arundhati Roy and two other writers from the subcontinent , Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid, are among the contenders for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction

3 min read27 Jul 2017
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Twinkle Khanna, Amish Tripathi: The storytellers

Two authors tell us why you read to write better, and how assigning a time to write helps you to be more productive

10 min read19 Mar 2017
Companies

Notion Press raises $1 million from HNIs

Co-founder and CEO Naveen Valsakumar says Notion Press will be intensifying its coverage across India and fuel operations internationally as well with the funds raised

1 min read29 Aug 2016
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On tour with the Authors XI

Reviving a cricket team that once had P.G. Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle as opening batsmen

7 min read19 Mar 2016
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Translating Ananthamurthy is a political act: Vivek Shanbhag

The Kannada writer on comparing himself to the best of writers right from his first short story as a teenager, and how his day job at Hindustan Lever provided the seed of the story of 'Ghachar Ghochar'

15 min read25 Feb 2016
Companies

We try to help authors connect with readers: Amazon’s Neal Thompson

Amazon sees self-published authors as a key driver of its e-books business globally, says the firm's director for author and publishing relations

4 min read23 Dec 2015
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