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UNINVITED...

A short story by Indrani Raimedhi
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Liquid Ambience in Poetry...

Mitali Chakravarty’s poems alternate between spirituality and the down to earth.
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A WINDOW UPON ASSAM...

Sic poems by Nirmalprabha Bordoloi
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Reflections from the Heart...

Merry Baruah talks about this evocative poetry collection
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A Fistful of Moonlight ...

The “Write Assamese” project features 14 contemporary short stories
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The Different Rays...

A review of 3 Rays: Stories from Satyajit Ray
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The Stage is set for KLF...

Over 10 countries and 25 languages will feature at the ninth edition of the annual literature festiv
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Muslim Spring...

Excerpt from HASAN SUROOR's book, 'India's Muslim Spring'
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Waiting for the Storm...

Excerpts from Bangladeshi author Farah Ghuznavi’s short story collection
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Alluring Guwahati...

RITUPARNA GOSWAMI PANDE celebrates Guwahati city in her new coffee table book. She writes about the
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A Strangers Touch...

An excerpt from INDRANI RAIMEDHI's collection of short stories, A Strangers Touch
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A Happy Place...

Author VINEETHA MOKKIL uses Delhi city as a fictional backdrop in her new book
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One Sohra Summer...

Iadalang Pyngrope's book is a delightful blend of history and fiction writes ANANYA S GUHA
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Poetry of Darius Cooper...

ANANYA S GUHA traverses multiplicity of worlds in the poems of Darius Cooper
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Mosaic...

Iadalang Pyngrope's poems are experiential totality writes ANANYA S GUHA
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Between you and me...

Indrani Raimedhi's new book is a intimate tete-a-tete with her readers writes ARUP DUTTA
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The Smell of Rains...

Excerpt from the book 'The House of Twining Roses: Stories of the mapped and the unmapped by NABINA
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Fable of the region...

PETER W INGTY's book is a interesting exposition of certain historical truths writes ANANYA S GUHA
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Tea Motif...

NINA HARKNESS's novel straddles three decades in tea estates writes ANANYA S GUHA
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Best reads of the year...

Author and journalist INDRANI RAIMEDHI picks the top ten books she has read in 2013
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Honour for Temsula Ao...

ANANYA S GUHA chats with Sahitya Akademi award winning writer TEMSULA AO
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Colour of gold...

GITA ARAVAMUDAN's new book is based on Kolar, one of India’s oldest gold mining towns
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Unbreakable...

Ace Boxer Mary Kom's book was launched in Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati by actor Sushmita
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Assam to Goa...

MITRA PHUKAN is amazed at Goa’s culture of inclusiveness at the recently concluded Goa Arts and Li
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Shut Up and Train...

Actor SHAHRUKH KHAN released Deanne Panday’s new book in Mumbai recently
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The last orange...

KISAN UPADHAYA narrates the saga of reunion with mother and sister after four decades in his book -
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The Hogarth Shakespeare...

Two bestselling authors have been commissioned to write prose ‘retellings’ of Shakespeare’s pl
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Honour for Parajuly...

PRAJWAL PARAJULY is the only Indian on the long list for the Dylan Thomas Prize
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Artistic Connections...

Artist S.G.Vasudev's book 'Vriksha' demystifies the process of artistic creation writes PRAMILA LOCH
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Life and Death...

MITRA PHUKAN delves into diplomat Amit Dasgupta’s latest book which is a simple story of loss and
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Speaking Poetry...

JAYA BHATTACHARJI ROSE profiles a slim hardback volume of poems by Adil Jussawalla
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New Innings...

CEO Markus Dohle announces Penguin Random House Global Leadership Team
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Foreign and the Familiar...

Sonora Jha’s debut novel Foreign, soon to be launched in India by Random House, is an account of f
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Life Lingua...

Bureaucrat SAUMITRA MOHAN pens lessons learnt from his life in his new book
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Rhymes with a reason...

The North East Writers’ Forum had an interactive session with "second generation" of committed wri
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Semantics of Poetry...

ANANYA S GUHA reviews a book of poems by Nabina Das27
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Women Unbound...

What emerged after one year of travel and research was an amazing story of the lives of these women
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Connecting Calcutta...

BUNNY SURAIYA on her novel which is set in Calcutta at the turn of the decade, one of the most vibra
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In search of roots...

Bureaucrat PETER W INGTY on the evolution of his debut historical fiction which was released at the
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Parable of a racquet sport tit...

DEV S SUKUMAR, who authored the first ever biography of an Indian badminton player, writes about the
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The Magic of Storytelling...

ANU KUMAR unveils the varied nuances of Rajat Chaudhuri's book Hotel Calcutta
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Recapturing Guwahati...

Mitra Phukan delves into the journey of her new book which is a collection of her columns
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Rural Retreat...

It started as a series of holiday snapshots which grew into a photographic narrative. Photographer C
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Testing Times...

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh launches his memoirs The Test of My Life
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An Ode to Tawang...

Bureaucrat Pomi Baruah fell in love with Tawang and decided to write a book
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The Swagger...

Rahul Pandita was inspired by Sir Vidia to write his new book on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits
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A Perfect Murder...

Mitra Phukan feels that it takes a murder to know the life of a small town as she reads through Anu
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A novel with no words...

M S Murthy released his `visual novel’ two years back. The book received rave reviews, despite def
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Going Global...

Tripty Chaudhari gives an account of the London launch of The Gurkha’s Daughter by Prajwal Parajul
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The Quest...

Saba Naqvi embarks on a journey in search of an unknown India in her new book
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The Quest...

Saba Naqvi embarks on a journey in search of an unknown India in her new book
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Women inspired me to write...

She grew up wanting to write, but never got down to it. Florence Handique Rabha started off with adm
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Kooking-booking with Kornelia...

A passionate cook who loves her kitchen, Kornelia Santaro shares the story behind her two books devo
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In vogue, Guwahatis writerly e...

Mitra Phukan writes about Guwahati's thriving literary ambience, the city's bustling venues and tren
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Newsman talks of tryst with In...

It was love for food that drew this man to a career in South Asia with the BBC. Daniel Lak, former r
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Recording the riot fabric...

Journalist and author Meena Menon talks of the journey behind her well-researched treatise on the Ma
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Bookworm turned publisher...

Book publishing czar and author David Davidar is credited with publishing some of the best known aut
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The elephant-hunters and mad d...

Janice Pariat's first book Boats on Land comprises cross-currents of history and people and place. T
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Its just a story...

Anjum Hasan writes that her characters are often solitary people whose choices are no longer so dete
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Nipped in the Womb...

India's girls were going missing at an alarmingly fast rate. And we didn't even know about it. In fa
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Wizard of words on life and mo...

Journalism is about the here and the now and fiction is about the universal and the timeless. The sk
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Media as Guardian of Democracy...

The tiny Himalayan kingdom, which had recently witnessed democracy, has a nascent media industry whi
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Why I wrote Bhiwani Junction...

Indian boxing is in its purplest patch ever right now. Seven men and one woman have qualified for th
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Insist, persist with stories: ...

His career graph is rich, with experience of conflict reporting from Kargil to Colombo, reporting fr
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Railway Tryst with Northeast I...

An official of the Indian Railway Service, Shruti Smita Agnihotri claims that her debut novel is not
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Write your stories: Jerry Pint...

Frank. In-your-face. Touching. Rare. Amitav Ghosh even mentions he cannot remember when he read some
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