Can Storytellers Save Lives?
She knew she was going to die. But, a well-read woman she was; she knew stories. She perused the books, legends, anecdotes as well as examples to weave captivating stories to prevent the fate, which...
View ArticleShwas’s Kinjal Shah talks to Niyogi Books | The Dire need of Education to the...
100 million That is the number of children who do not go to school in India. i.e. Four times the population of Australia. i.e. approximately 1/3 the population of the USA.And when I see, Mehul,who has...
View ArticleCome Autumn
Come late September or early October…the ruddy autumn sunlight would creep in through chinks in my bedroom window shutters and fall squarely on my pillow at day break. I would know in my semi...
View ArticleLet There be Translations
A few years ago, I embarked on a rather tedious quest to find the English translation of Agnisakshi, a novel of the popular Malayalam writer Lalithambika Antharjanam. Needless to say, it was not as...
View ArticleTranslations at a Crossroad
Just a few days back I met a family of three; mother, father and a five-year-old girl. The father was Bengali and the mother non-Bengali. During the course of the evening the parents sat separated by...
View ArticleNaropa: The Dauntless
She disappeared like a rainbow fading in the blue sky. He could only see her as an old, ugly woman, but the Vajroyogini saw him for what he was and showed him the direction, which would change his...
View ArticleWhy Do We Need to Travel?
The long tight hug from the best friend or a compliment from a stranger, the little teardrop at the corner of the eye due to uncontrollable laughter or the chuckling of a little child in the metro; a...
View Article‘The Tilted City’, Navigating the Whimsy of Zebrutopia
Masoud Malekyari’s The Tilted City is a wondrous narrative that transports readers to a town as quirky as its residents. This endearing children’s book is a fanciful examination of the significance of...
View ArticleWayel Kati: The Quest of the Seven Guardians
Multiple long spears flew through the air and some even struck the beast and made him roar in anger. Sana took her chance and escaped the monster’s claws while he fell on his knee and injured himself....
View ArticleJagadish Chandra Bose: The Reluctant Physicist by Sudipto Das
In Bengal, there has always been a ‘Boseian’ myth that Bose was the inventor of the radio and that Marconi ran away with the radio and the glory that came with it. Bose’s research on plant response and...
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