Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq & Deepa Bhasthi on the Booker Prize!

We are proud to share that Bhavana Magazine (April 2000) had featured Banu Mushtaq’s powerful short story “Edeya Hanate” –meaning “Heart Lamp”. This story later became the title of her acclaimed collection published in 2004.
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We're getting close to double our target! Your support means so much!

Each one of our contributors gets a percentage of whatever excess amount we raise, so keep spreading the word!

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48 hours left for our Kickstarter! Book your copy of GUJARATI PULP FICTION now!

Murder for hire! Headless ghosts! Mermaids! Nightclub dancers out for revenge!

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"Such an important piece of work... a well-told narrative about why dams are so destructive... It is a brilliant graphic novel and should be essential reading for young people!" -- Marcy Newman

Get your copy of Orijit Sen's classic graphic novel River of Stories, on sale in our webstore through tomorrow

https://www.blaft.com/products/river-of-stories-25th-anniversary-edition

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#translation

"Translation is an un-self-conscious act in India; it’s in the air, in the cosmos. And it’s hidden by being most proximate and natural."

Brilliant conversation between Rita Kothari and @jennybhatt.

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-12/on-the-evolution-and-craft-of-gujarati-literature-in-translation-an-interview-with-dr-rita-kothari/

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Also sending love to one of my favourite novels on the #JCB shortlist, Sheela Tomy's Valli:

"Kalluvayal is a real place. It’s my own village where I was born. It is also every village in the Western Ghats. Wherever nature is exploited by man’s greed, there is a Kalluvayal."

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/my-village-is-every-village-in-the-western-ghats-exploited-by-mans-greed-malayalam-writer-sheela-tomy/2588573/

#Indianwriting #books #reading

Khalid Jawed, winner of the JCB Prize, The Paradise of Food:

"The world had shrunk into a village. A village where the game of loathing, fire and blood was being played all the time. And everyone was participating in this game in their eagerness to be called modern.”

https://scroll.in/article/1025443/the-paradise-of-food-horror-lurks-in-kitchen-corners-in-khalid-jaweds-fiction-of-hostility

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