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FORMS OF WRITING · 368 reads

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FORMS OF WRITING · 1,354 reads

उर्दू ग़ज़ल में मीटर और बह्र

किसी मुशायरे में एक अच्छा शेर पढ़ा जाता है। श्रोता उसके शब्दों का पूरा अर्थ समझें या न समझें, उनकी गर्दन हल्के...

FORMS OF WRITING · 814 reads

तुकांत और अतुकांत कविता में अंतर

बचपन में हममें से अधिकतर लोगों ने कविता को तुक से पहचाना था। चंदा था तो मामा आना लगभग निश्चित था, मछली जल की र...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 895 reads

Why Literature Needs Critics?

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ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 827 reads

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किताब पढ़ना एक बात है। किताब पर राय देना, दूसरी। और किताब के भीतर से अपने समय, समाज, भाषा, स्मृति और मनुष्य की...

FICTION · 791 reads

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FICTION · 762 reads

साहित्य, मीडिया और पाठक का बदलता रिश्ता

आपने अब तक पढ़ा, कथाकार, उपन्यासकार और पत्रकार में अंतर, अब आगे चलते हैं...तो हिंदी में पत्रकारों का लेखक बनना...

FICTION · 781 reads

कथाकार, उपन्यासकार और पत्रकार में अंतर

किसी ने प्रश्न किया,क्या कारण है कि आज हिंदी में पत्रकार ही कहानीकार और उपन्यासकार हो रहे हैं?क्यों कहानीकार,...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 1,263 reads

Bhikhari Thakur

तो हुआ कुछ यूँ कि Rachnaye के एक Social Media post पर, ये प्रश्न आया की,भिखारी ठाकुर को भोजपुरी का शेक्सपीयर क...

PICTURE BOOKS · 982 reads

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There’s a familiar scene playing out in homes across India these days,A tired parent.A restless child.A glowin...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 1,670 reads

Why Indian Language Books Feel “Hard to Find”

I walked into the bookstore looking for a Kannada novel.Not a rare one. Not out of print. Just a good contempo...

FICTION · 1,821 reads

The Unspoken Hierarchy of Genres

What is the “genre hierarchy” in Indian language publishing?It’s the informal ranking of genres by cultural st...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 1,195 reads

Borrowed Genius or Strategic Shortcut?

Why are foreign books translated so heavily into Indian languages?They carry built-in recognition, lower copyr...

BEST INDIAN BOOKS TO READ · 1,526 reads

Resolve to Read

I am part of a book club WhatsApp group where people from across India discuss books throughout the year. I, t...

FORMS OF WRITING · 1,588 reads

Not All Editing Is the Same

Not All Editing Is the Same. And That’s Where Most Writers Go Wrong.Why manuscripts fail, relationships sour,...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 1,409 reads

The Editor–Author Power Imbalance

The publishing world loves a comforting story: an editor “discovers” a manuscript, an author gets “guidance,”...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 1,487 reads

Editorial Room Inside Story

After twenty-odd years in Indian publishing, you develop certain instincts.You can tell how a meeting will end...

BEST INDIAN BOOKS TO READ · 1,659 reads

मगध - अतीत का संग्रह

“मगध” - एक नगर, साम्राज्य, गणराज्य, युद्ध, महाप्रलय, सत्ता, पतन, पुनरुत्थान - सब कुछ और बहुत कुछ।कुछ कथ्य, कुछ...

READER'S BEHAVIOUR · 1,714 reads

Cash On Delivery

If there is one arena where India’s contradictions theatrically perform, it’s the intersection of books and Ca...

FICTION · 1,527 reads

From Meme to Manuscript

After a very long time, I was on a train journey, primarily because the railway station I was heading to was m...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 1,968 reads

The Mood of 2025

2025 didn’t wait for permission. It rewired Indian publishing while everyone was busy predicting its death.The...

READER'S BEHAVIOUR · 1,179 reads

How Algorithms Choose What India Reads

Here’s a secret most readers don’t know: you didn’t “discover” your last read; it was delivered to you, by a m...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 1,409 reads

Why Microfiction Is the New Bestseller

And the story’s over. But... you’re still thinking about it.Once upon a time, stories were told in chapters to...

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Who Really Writes India’s Bestsellers?

Every bestselling author has a secret co-author, sometimes human, sometimes algorithmic.The Truth They Won’t T...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 1,372 reads

The Glance that sells a Thousand Words

Once upon a time, we read blurbs. Now, we scroll.In a world where books share screen space with Instagram grid...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 1,197 reads

How Indian Fiction Grew Up with Urban India

Once upon a time, Indian fiction was infused with the scents of wet earth, temples, and mango orchards.Then ca...

BEST INDIAN BOOKS TO READ · 1,363 reads

Hampi nunchi Harappa daka

In the landscape of twentieth‐century Telugu literature, certain autobiographies stand out for their candour,...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 1,221 reads

How Indian Fiction Surviving the Screen Age

Ever imagined The Screen Ate the Story, or Did It? What happens when every story we used to read is now stream...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 2,031 reads

Retelling Epics in a Time of Algorithms

In an age when our thumbs flick over reels and our attention hovers for seconds rather than chapters, somethin...

FORMS OF WRITING · 7,924 reads

दोहा: ज्ञान, व्यंग्य और लोक की आत्मा

“बड़ा हुआ तो क्या हुआ, जैसे पेड़ खजूर; पंथी को छाया नहीं, फल लागे अति दूर”ये प्रसिद्ध पंक्तियाँ बचपन से हमारे...

FORMS OF WRITING · 906 reads

Essay aka निबंध

मुझे आज भी याद है, कक्षा पाँच की हिंदी की वो क्लास जिसमे उमाशंकर माटसाब ने कहा की चलो आज निबंध करेंगे, अपनी कॉ...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 1,457 reads

The Forgotten Masters

Walk into any second-hand bookstore in India, and you’ll find them, names you might have heard once in passing...

INDIAN DIALECTS · 2,340 reads

The Hidden Politics of Indian Literature

In Indian literature, words do more than tell stories sometimes, they decide which stories survive. One such w...

MAKERS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 5,462 reads

The Barefoot Storyteller

Vaikom Muhammad BasheerBasheer’s characters were drawn from society’s margins, gamblers, pickpockets, and pros...

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The Curious Case of Indian Novels

Novels That Were Not Written for the Masses...Many exceptional Indian language books are critically acclaimed...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 5,954 reads

When Publishers Lose the Plot

Why Publishers Lose Good Writers (and Sometimes Their Sleep Too!)Here are the primary reasons:Royalties &...

INDIAN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY · 6,199 reads

The “Moving Out” Story

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READER'S BEHAVIOUR · 6,194 reads

The Nostalgia Trap in Indian Reading

Ever Wondered?:Indian readers still heavily gravitate toward older, classic Indian novelists. Why?Is it a matt...

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जब भी मैं अपने पुस्तकालय में जाता हूँ, एक शेल्फ पर सलीके से रखी किताबों की कतार में मानसरोवर की मोटी जिल्द मुझ...

INDIAN DIALECTS · 6,714 reads

Swipe, Scroll, Read

The first time I came across a beautifully narrated Santali folktale on Instagram Reels, I paused.Not because...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY · 6,479 reads

Loved, But Legally Forgotten

A Write-up from a Legal Research Scholar Specialising in Intellectual Property & Indian Publishing. It's n...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY · 6,643 reads

The Hidden Cost of Free PDFs

In our country, storytelling is woven into the cultural fabric, and the written word holds immense power.Yet,...

READER'S BEHAVIOUR · 6,721 reads

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Every time a new book lands on my desk, I wonder: Will this one catch fire?Not just commercially, but cultural...

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Choose the Right Book Format

There’s a quiet joy in the rustle of a page, the glow of an e-ink screen on a late-night flight, or the satisf...

INDIAN DIALECTS · 6,665 reads

Between the Lines

Lost in Translation? Not Quite.I still remember the first time I sat with a 400-page Hindi manuscript, commiss...

INDIAN DIALECTS · 6,375 reads

Languages Need to Die?

Hi there. I would like to begin with a confession.I’m a PhD scholar (yes, willingly doing more studies after a...

ERAS OF INDIAN LITERATURE · 6,943 reads

Why Different Languages Share the Same Script

Have you ever wondered why Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit all use the same script—Devanagari—even though...

PICTURE BOOKS · 6,385 reads

More Than Just Pages: A Publisher’s Story

I remember the exact moment this story was born—not the one inside the book, but the one I’m about to tell you...