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Tag: books
‘We’re So Used to Literacy That We’ve Forgotten it’s a Privilege’
Author Jerry Pinto argued for the need to open ourselves up to different worlds – through books and people – if we want a more peaceful society.
How To Win the Booker Prize: Is There a Formula for ‘the Finest in Fiction’?
Examining the data from prize-winning Booker novels over the last 20 years yields some interesting results.
A Street Library, or a Silent Movement?
In an age when nobody has time for anybody and the future of libraries looks bleak, Kolkata's Patuli Street Library stands firm against the onslaught of online libraries and …
‘Glitter Girls’, ‘Ret Samadhi’ and Musings on My Reading Journey
The author recounts her experience of reading in a language she wasn’t familiar with as a child – English – to subsequently losing touch and trying to reconnect with …
Literature Beyond Borders: Two Teen Authors Meet for a Virtual Discussion
The conversation, interspersed with giggles and laughter, reveals certain important catalysts in the young writers’ journeys.
Lockdown Readings on Nature
For all its ills, the lockdown was a time to make a connection with the non-human lives around us. The author reconnects with nature by delving into four rejuvenating …
Translating the Marquis de Sade’s Only Gothic Novel Into English
A story about male violence and a damsel in distress, it is based on a true crime.
Why We Need Arts in Times of Crisis
Art confers meaning to our lives and the world around us. It makes an anxious girl cramped in her room reflect and learn so many things.
Readers on Goodreads #ReadWomen, and So Should English Departments
We scraped data from Goodreads and found that most Goodreads book club members were likely to have read books in common by women authors.