Happy International Translation Day!! • Please pay translators a decent amount. • Please put their name on the cover of the book (even if it is translated by the author themself). • Please stop crying about what's supposedly 'lost' in translation. • Please buy such books♥️

Horrific sights all along the Tista and the Rangeet. Something very similar happened last October with the retreating monsoon.

We have a fresh hell.

“Literary fiction.” [...] I mean fiction that privileges art over entertainment. I did not know until recently that literary fiction ... grew up with me. We’re about the same age. And while I hope I’m only midway through my life, literary fiction might be dead.

📢FRESH! Home-grown authors have shattered the fearful silence surrounding the 1986 movement for a separate Gorkha state in India. anuradha sharma on a wave of bold new books on the Gorkhaland agitation: himalmag.com/new-books-gork…

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This child, 9 years old, is from Sindebong village in Kalimpong. He has been struck down with Guillame-Barre Syndrome. His ability to breathe on his own is severely compromised and he's on ventilator support. Please come forward and contribute. Every little bit will help.

Did you think we were done? There are so many more author sessions to attend at The White Owl_Nagaland! Nandita Basu mansi dhanraj shetty Anurag Basnet Yogesh Maitreya Mmhonlumo Kikon Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty Karthik Venkatesh (‏‎‎ کارتِک وینکٹیش, ਕਾਰਤਿਕ)

If small town bookshops could attract from publishers a fraction of interest that they have for those 5 bkstores in Delhi, readers & authors would’ve a wide space across the country to meet/engage. But all we get is a stocklist of books with some 35K titles to choose from daily.

Are you an emerging writer wanting to get published but unsure where to start? Have you found yourself wondering what lies beyond the act of writing itself? Join us for an interactive session led by Anurag Basnet on May 19. Registration link and other information in the bio 💌

I am thrilled to share that 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰, my translation of नयनराज पाण्डे's moving novel 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐫, will be published later this year by Ajit Baral at FinePrint, Nepal.

I enjoyed speaking to a focused, keen group about the intricacies of writing and publishing. Looking forward to many more such interesting interactions.

Looking forward to interacting with and learning from seasoned practitioners in the field. This will be a good one. Please drop in if you're in town.

Happy to share that Fruits of the Barren Tree has been shortlisted for the Crossword Book Jury Award hosted by Crossword. This is great encouragement , and stokes our hope that this novel will reach many more readers. Penguin India Kanishka Gupta theprint.in/.../shortlist-…...