Blogs in February 2025

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories 25th February 2025

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize A PEN Translates Award winner In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their...

Read More 

Courting India 22nd February 2025

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English...

Read More 

The Lantern’s Dance 22nd February 2025

‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...

Read More 

Ten Days Of The Strike 22nd February 2025

Sandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost fiction writers of his time. A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, his writings reflect his concerns with class and gender...

Read More 

Six Days in Bombay 20th February 2025

When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she’s expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a...

Read More