Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new book, “The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance,” tells the story of Maharani Jindan, the last queen of the Sikh Empire.
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Honor by Thrity Umrigar
Enduring Love Surmounts Religious Savagery in Thrity Umrigar’s Newest Novel Reading a novel by Thrity Umrigar is like experiencing a … More
The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor
Deputy Director of OutRight Action International Maria Sjödin stated, “Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which made sexual behavior … More
America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibilities by Rajika Bhandari
A Ph.D.’s Memoir Champions a U.S. Education https://indiacurrents.com/america-calling-a-ph-ds-memoir-champions-a-u-s-education/ Each fall, thousands of students arrive with dreams and two suitcases each, … More
Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman
Born in a Pandemic, a Children’s Novel Tackles the Broken Justice System In 2013, multi-award-winning author Padma Venkatraman read an … More
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Sunjeev Sahota’s China Room Reclaims Family Generations Later In 1929, while freedom fighters scour the country for new recruits, fifteen-year-old … More
Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
The Yin and Yang of Jane Austen Is Alive and Well Thanks to Sonali Dev Yash Raje, the son of … More
Historical Mysteries of 1921 in India Resonate a Century Later
Oxford-educated Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female solicitor, is a clever, spirited young woman working for her father’s respected law firm … More
Hands for Language by Uma Menon
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. Auden In … More
Seeing Ceremony by Meera Ekkanath Klein
In Seeing Ceremony, Meera Ekkanath Klein’s sequel to her 2017 debut novel, My Mother’s Kitchen, the narrator, Meena, is now … More
When Loose Ends Meet 