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Perfect Landing by Jyoti Singh

Jyoti Singh’s Perfect Landing releases today, May7th,2016. In Perfect Landing , the diminutive Captain Sara Jena’s flight path collides with the suave scion of the Khanna Conglomerate, Samrat Khanna and she … Continue reading

May 6, 2016 · Leave a comment

Asmara’s Summer by Andaleeb Wajid

See, I don’t claim to know much of Bangalore besides Sadashivnagar where I live, and Indiranagar and Koramangala and, of course, places like M.G. Road and Brigade Road. But there’s … Continue reading

May 5, 2016 · 1 Comment

The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota

Visa fraud, illegal migration and loss of jobs in host countries are part of every society’s current narrative, and economic migrants, legal or illegal, are looked upon with suspicion everywhere. … Continue reading

May 2, 2016 · Leave a comment

An Interview with Anita Anand, author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

Anita Anand has been a radio and television journalist for almost twenty years. She is the presenter of ‘Any Answers’, the political phone-in on BBC Radio 4. She was a … Continue reading

April 30, 2016 · 2 Comments

The Day of Second Chances by Julie Cohen

H ‘You’re not the only one in this family with secrets.’ Honor put her foot on the step where Jo was sitting, and Jo moved over to let her past. … Continue reading

April 14, 2016 · Leave a comment

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

I actively began to seek books by Nigerian authors when my parents moved to the country almost a decade ago. My mother would send me cut-outs of the editorials that … Continue reading

April 4, 2016 · Leave a comment

We Are Afghan Women – Voices of Hope

Having read enough and more fiction, with Afghanistan as the central theme, I thought I knew all there was to know about what the country had endured. Add to that … Continue reading

March 28, 2016 · Leave a comment

The Bookseller by C. Robert Cales

“It’s our story, Frank. I wanted to document everything, and with my ability to trace people back into their past, I put together a complete picture of all of us, … Continue reading

March 24, 2016 · Leave a comment

The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman, reviewed by Ines Rodrigues

A Two-Family House is Lynda Cohen Loigman’s first novel and we can just hope there’s more to come. The story enwrapped me from the very first paragraphs, when the reader … Continue reading

March 17, 2016 · Leave a comment

River Of Flesh, edited by Ruchira Gupta

River of Flesh is an anthology on the prostituted woman in Indian Short Fiction, and each of the twenty one stories in this collection is riveting and horrifying. In ‘Woman … Continue reading

March 14, 2016 · 1 Comment