Books

5 Books by Indian Authors You Should Read

As India continues its slide into majoritarianism, books by Indian authors reveal different facets – the good, bad and ugly – of a nation that’s flawed but still encompasses multitude of voices and ways of living. …

Book Review: Orbital

Six astronauts rotate in a spacecraft above Earth, conducting experiments and collecting data. They circle the planet sixteen times, seeing sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets. The “whip-crack of morning” arrives every ninety minutes. In the…

Short Book Reviews: Volume 1

Yellowface gives us a glimpse of the publishing industry. It reveals just how skewed it is, how it brackets authors into genres, and how little concern it has for ethics. When Athena dies and June…

The God of Small Things

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of life that is purloined… Esthappen and Rahel are just seven at the time of the incident.…

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Into the Wild

In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild for his great adventure. For two years, the young lad had been on the road, working off odd jobs, wandering across North America…

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Manto: selected stories

“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don’t even try to cover it, because it is…

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Poetry Collection

Poetry Corner: Volume 13

It’s almost time to pack up and burn the old year. We’ve been thinking about a few words we read online the other day. It…

New in Shop: Poetry Cards

If you are a reader of A Thousand Mornings, you know the role poetry plays in our lives. In a world that is going to…

A Held Breath

Dense dark day, two sun chairssit on the lawn in the rain.Which stops. A mist comes toroost in the leafy intervals oftrees over-burdened in mid-September.…

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