A book a day keeps the blues away; Your lock reading is here

Books to read when you feel lonely…Know more…

Wednesday, 29th September 2021

 Choose a book

* Thousands of e-books are just a download away; many are available at a discount, others are free. Juggernaut Books publisher offers selected titles for free download on its mobile app. Read Tony Joseph's award-winning Early Indians or actor Twinkle Khanna's pajamas are indulgent when you're in the mood for something light. For a slice of history, check out William Dalrymple's Kohinoor, or for political discussions, Good Economics For Hard Times by Nobel Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

* The National Book Trust also offers some of its titles for free download as part of its #StayHomeIndiaWithBooks initiative. More than 100 books in various Indian languages, including Ahomiya, Bangla, Guajarati, Malayalam, Odia, Marathi, Kokborok, Mizo, Bodo, Kannada, Sanskrit, can be downloaded from the website nbtindia.gov.in. Most of these are for children and young adults, but there are also classics by Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, and others. More titles will be added soon.

* Seagull Books of Calcutta offers a free journal that can be downloaded from their website. The first batch of seven has already appeared, including translated works by writers Banaphool, Alawiya Sobh, and Florence Noiville. Come back to the site every Sunday for a fresh supply for the week.

* The author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote the first chapter of a collective collaboration novel, possibly apocalyptic given the time, in which the school teacher Manaroma wakes up and misses not only her husband and children, but the entire city in be quiet. Started by Harper Collins India, anyone can enter the contest and the compilation of the winning chapters results in a book.

 Festive Fervor

* Juggernaut Books hosted a virtual literature festival with readings, discussions, reflections on the authors' book shelves, master classes, and workshops. You can listen to actor Konkana Sen Sharma read Jhumpa Lehris HellHeaven, Shabana Azmi read the story Nanhi ki Nani by acclaimed Urdu author Ismat Chughtai, or attend a masterclass by nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar, who guides people in quarantine training and meal plans.

* Manjul publishing house is also organizing a two-day literature festival on its Instagram Live starting April 11. Check out 20 authors, including mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni at @manjulpublishinghouse.

* The annual Jaipur Literature Festival has also announced a new series called "Brave New World," which replaces the vast grounds of Diggi Palace with the limitless possibilities of the internet, with interactions with over 40 authors, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Palin, Robert Macfarlane, Aanchal Malhotra, Bee Rowlatt, Edmund de Waal, Peter Carey, Roger Highfield, Tom Holland, and others. Instead of posting videos of previous sessions, the organizers opted for "digital format, one point of view, one-on-one, half-hour meetings, face-to-face interviews with the audience, question-taking." Peter Frankopanm, who argued in an article In December after the Wuhan outbreak on "the danger of an impending pandemic," he will speak with oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee for conversation; Tom Holland will speak with Stephen Greenblatt about the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius's pandemic warning

* The JCB Prize for Literature also announced a series on its Instagram called #TheJCBPrizeCatchUp. This is where budding readers and writers can interact with writers and deal with the challenges that the virus has brought: isolation, loneliness and illness, and how this affects your creative process. Mukta will speak Sathe on April 11, followed by Vivek Shanbhag on April 13 and Roshan Ali on April 15.

* Pakistani writers Fatima Bhutto and Sanam Maher are also trying to unite the global literary community with a supporting project of writers, publishers and booksellers who are affected by event cancellations and bookstore closures at this time for distancing reasons Social. Stay Home, Stay Reading has writers from all over the world broadcasting videos in many languages ??reading from their work and works that bring them comfort in these times. While Bhutto was reading Alice Greenway's White Ghost Girls, Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes was reading her latest dark comedy The Wild Laughter and Omar Musa was reading her debut novel Here Come the Dogs.

 One for the Kids

* Penguin has created a schedule to keep kids busy with the #OnceUponABookWithPenguin online initiative. Every day since March 30 at 6.30pm, an author has been posting on the Momspresso Facebook page to tell the kids a story. While I Need To Pee by Neha Singh, The Incredible Adventures of Mr Cheeks: Hastings Carnival by Tazmeen Amna and Mukesh Starts A Zoo by Ruskin Bond were very popular with children, a Let's Do This Together reading will be offered at the next sessions of Lubaina on April 11 and Lavanya Karthik will finish it on April 14 with Ninja Nani. Mompresso has also collaborated with Hachette Publishing on another series of lunchtime sessions.

On April 11, Archana Garodia Gupta and Shruti Gupta will take an interactive history quiz.

The News Talkie Bureau

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