#Indian Authors

[inkscribbled]

Where do people go once tales end? Also where do old birds go to die? Why don't old ones fall like stones from the sky?

#arundhati roy #god of small things #scribbles #writing #spilled thoughts #literature #indian authors #dark academia #dark acadamia quotes #quotes #book quote

[coffeebooksandmore]

What has always impressed me by authors are the ones that write short stories. How are you able to shake me to my core in less than a few pages? In “Unaccustomed Earth” Lahiri writes stories about people living in all these different worlds physically and mentally. Lahiri dissects how we make it through all these strange lives we live in. I reside in many of these strange worlds. One world where I live with the world. Another where my mother’s happiness holds my goodness together. The story that gutted my heart was “Only Goodness.” I’ve only seen the worst and been disgusted by myself. “Only Goodness” that’s all I’ve ever wanted. How do you come to terms with how shame has dictated how you can live? The oldest daughter what a heavy title. Ordinanded from birth for a life of sacrifice. You make mistakes along the way which you still punish yourself to this day. I loved but not enough. I promised I’d bleed for you so you wouldn’t have to. But why can’t I look at you in the eyes? I've always tried escaping by finding a way to live through others lives. Lahiri writes about wants I’ve been ashamed to desire and the repentance I can’t seem to let the inner child in myself let go. I was young and had no guidance but still I should’ve known. I dreamt often of a life where no one needed me. A life alone of no commitments and no disappointments. I don’t see myself as the sacrificial lamb anymore. These stories reminded me of the pain I felt of living in all these worlds alone figuring my paths but also of the growth that always lead me to love.

coffeeandbookss

#book reviews #book review #book recommendations #book reccs #jhumpa lahiri #best books #reader #by the river #beautiful #thoughts about life #indian authors #butterfly #oldest daughter

[filtercoffeeonsteroids]

2022 TBR 🧿 (continuing in 2023)

On Earth, we are briefly gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (🦄)

Twisted lies - Ana Huang (🦄)

Gender Queer: a memoir - Maia Kobabe (🦄)

Lanka's princess - Kavita Kané (🫀)

Forty rules of love - Elif Shafak

All my rage - Sabaa Tahir (🫀)

Redacted : poems - Trista Mateer (🦄)

She gets the girl - Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick

Pride & prejudice - Jane Austen (🌷)

How much land does a man need? - Leo Tolstoy (🦄)

Terribly tiny tales, Vol. 1 (🦄)

God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Secret History - Donna Tartt (🫀)

The Forest of Enchantments - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (🫀)

Love story - Erich Segal (🦄)

Raavan : Enemy of Aryavarta - Amish Tripathi

The love hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood (🦄)

No Regrets - Kaveree Bamzai

Great Goddesses - Nikita Gill

Beautiful World, Where are you - Sally Rooney

Crying in H mart - Michelle Zauner (🫀)

Poetry is undead - Trista Mateer

Artemis Made me do it - Trista Mateer (🫀)

Poems I sleep next to - Shelby Eileen (🦄)

Beach Read - Emily Henry

Menaka's choice - Kavita kané

Loveboat Reunion - Abigail Hing Wen (🫀)

One last stop - Casey McQusiton

The Knockout - Sajni Patel (🫀)

A Promised Land - Khadija Mastur

Daughter of the Moon Goddess - Sue Lynn Tan

Cheer up: Love and pompoms - Crystal Frasier ( 🦄)

Tahira in bloom - Farah Heron

A Good Girl's guide to murder - Holly Jackson (🦄)

The invisible life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab ( 🫀)

Rivals (American Royals #3) - Katherine McGee (🦄)

It ends with us - Colleen Hoover (🦄)

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Normal People - Sally Rooney (🦄)

Graceful Burdens - Roxane Gay (🦄)

I want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki - Baek Sehee (🫀)

The fault in our stars - John Green (🦄)

When the stars wrote back - Trista mateer (🦄,🫀)

Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney (🫀)

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (🦄)

Flower crowns & fearsome things - Amanda Lovelace (🦄)

The Bitter End - Kaliane Faye (🦄)

Rukmini - Saiswaroopa Iyer

Kate in waiting - Becky Albertralli

Simon vs the homosapiens agenda - Becky Albertralli (🫀)

The Princess saves herself in this one - Amanda Lovelace (🦄)

The Song of Achilles (🫀)

It Starts with Us - Colleen Hoover (🦄)

Here's to hoping I actually read all of them :')

(I have removed books that I know for a fact I will not read, so this is an edited version of the list! Also, finished TSOA today (18/4/23) and The Invisible life of Addie LaRue on 24/4/23 and absolutely fucking bawled, so I decided to add it to this tbr list to honour it :'), not to mention that I actually had planned to read it for a long time, just didn't include it in this list 😭)

( read in 2022 - 🦄, currently reading - 🌷, read in 2023 - 🫀)

I'll be marking off the books when I finish reading them/ I'll be adding more books when I find myself wanting to read them!

#books and libraries #new books #book annotations #my tbr #2022 tbr #wlw culture #desi wlw #indian authors #booksbooksbooks #fantasy books #desi academia #south asian #desi things #desi memes #desi dark academia #desi aesthetic #indian aesthetic #spotify #desiblr #poetry

[rrcraft-and-lore]

instead of a shitpost/meme, I just say this: Hey, would you be kind enough to spread the word about my new epic silk road fantasy book? Would you buy a copy please? :)

Available everywhere books are sold

"Crafted with patience, passion, and most importantly, tremendous love. Read R.R. Virdi!"- Jim Butcher, NYT bestselling author of the Dresden Files

"Rich world-building, plenty of action, and devious twists abound. Very highly recommended!" ―Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and Kagen the Damned

"R.R. Virdi's The First Binding is engrossing and beautiful, joyous and painful―always entertaining, sometimes profound. This book makes me remember why I love epic fantasy."―Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dune: House Atreides

"An epic like no other - grand, sweeping, dramatic, a love letter to fantasy burning with the dust and heat and mythos of South Asia. It reads like magic and tastes like saffron." ―Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Washington Post bestselling author of the Salvage Crew

#books #bookblr #reading #books and reading #bookworm #bookish #fantasy #fantasy books #high fantasy #asian fantasy #southeast asia #Folklore #folktales #myths #legends #retelling #Indian fantasy #bestseller #salvage crew #dresden files #the dresden files #jim butcher #Kaigen the Damned #Dune: House Atreides #book review #buy this book #tor books #authors of color #indian authors #book blog

[biswajitauthor]

বিশ্বজিৎ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় একজন বাঙালি লেখক। তাঁর লেখা বেশ কিছু অণুপত্রিকা ও বানিজ্যিক সংবাদপত্রে প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। আপনি যদি বাংলা সাহিত্যের অনুরাগী হন, তবে বিশ্বজিৎ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের ব্লগ ফলো করুন।

#বাঙালি #লেখক #বাংলা ব্লগ #বাঙালি লেখক #বিশ্বজিৎ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় #indian authors

[bones-ivy-breath]

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

#milk and honey #rupi kaur #quote #typography #poetry #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #original post #literature #love #love poetry #poets of color #indian authors

[aastha-t]

This book had all my attention! And I tried something new with these pictures.

Insta: a.readss

#aesthetic #tumblr #vsco #bookworm #bookish #book #bookblr #bookishfeatures #bookishlove #booknerd #the last queen #thelastqueen #indianwoman #indianstyle #indian authors #indian literature #women writers #historical fiction #fiction #readersgonnaread #reader #readerscommunity #chitra banerjee divakaruni #indian writer #booksbooksbooks #books and literature

[deadrosessociety]

What kind of drugs did chitra banerjee put into the palace of illusions!? Every single day i struggle to not pick it up again over my long ass tbr list

#i fall in all over again with panchali whenever i read this book #she's my queen and i worship her and only her #and i say that both for panchali and chitra #indian authors #indian mythology #mythology books #indian mythology books #mahabharat #chitra banerjee divakaruni

[alettearesius]

"she died . I survived

Because i survived. I die everyday."

🖤-------------------------------------🖤

-Ravinder Singh , "I too had a love story"

#ravinder singh #indian authors #book qoutes #lines from books #i too had a love story #qoute #diary #words #lit #literature #grief #lovers #love quote #love story #love so pure

[lost-in-letters]

" 'What was left in her? Her hair had greyed, her body had given way.'

'What was left in her was herself. She who contains within her sixty years of sweet breezes, storms, pain, and happiness.' "

Ambai, A Red Necked Green Bird

#ambai #quotes #book quotes #dark academia #books #translated literature #indian authors #tamil books #tamil authors

[wackspurtsandnargles]

"All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grow stronger than them."

Forest of Enchantments

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#books #english literature #quotes #words #dark academia #literature #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia quotes #poetry #indian dark academia #indian aesthetic #indian mythology #indian culture #india #indian academia #indian history #indian authors

[lorde-d]

" It usually took strangers awhile to notice him even when they were in the same room with him. It took them even longer to notice that he never spoke. Some never noticed at all. Estha occupied very little space in the world. " - The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy.

#words words words #books #novel #the god of small things #arundhati roy #desiblr #indian authors #book quotes

[byronicist]

"Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul. What could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?"

Salman Rushdie, Is Nothing Sacred? (1990)

#quotes #literature #lit #british literature #authors of color #indian authors #salman rushdie #litblr #books #spilled ink #modern literature

[sapphireshorelines]

[...]nowadays in the evenings when the moon rises and I sit outside on the boat on my easy chair with my legs stretched out and my eyes half shut, and the soft evening breeze keeps touching my overwrought, heated forehead, then this water, land and sky, this murmuring river, the occasional wayfarer upon the shore and the coming and going of the occasional fisherman’s dinghy on the water, the obscure edges of the field in the moonlight and the distant, almost asleep villages surrounded by rows of trees—all of it appears like a shadow, like māẏā, yet that māẏā embraces life and the mind more truly than truth itself—and then it seems that it cannot be that the salvation of the human soul lies in freedom from the hands of this māẏā.

Shilaidaha, 19 August 1894

Rabindranath Tagore to his niece Indira, from Letters From a Young Poet, translated from Bengali by Rosinka Chaudhuri

#rabindranath tagore #letters #philosophy #nature #maya #indian authors #indian literature #bengali authors #books in translation #books & libraries #book quote #book excerpt #light academia #classic literature #***

[the-lady-writes-what]

The-Lady-Reads-What

I'm a very slow reader, so I started reading this massive book back in May and just finished it today. This not on account of it being boring, far from it, it's just that I'm a very slow reader, I'm easily distracted, and I'm not really in the habit any more to read a lot of fiction novels for recreation as much as I used to.

Tasha Suri's "The Jasmine Throne" takes place in a fantasy world heavily inspired by South Asia. Priya, the main character, is a servant in the regent's mahal (palace). Her past is a mystery. She encounters Malini, a princess held prisoner in the temple by Malini's despotic brother, Emperor Chandra. Both young women learn to take power back for themselves in the turbulent world on the brink of rebellion and uprisings.

If you won't read "The Jasmine Throne" for it's diversity, then read it because it's good. The characters are highly complex, and some not afraid to do even monstrous things for the greater good. It's filled with family and cultural tensions, uprisings, fighting for power, and a dash of enemies-to-lovers romance. The world is beautiful, fantastical, and even just a little bit scary (as in you will be in awe of its strength). Suri is not afraid to the ugly side of politics, war, and personal decisions. I highly recommend this book.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars

"The Jasmine Throne" sequel, "The Oleander Sword," has been out since August 16th and the finale to this series has not been released yet as far as I'm aware.

#the-lady-reads-what #new segment #The Jasmine Throne #tasha suri #book review #lgbtq+ #sapphic fiction #POC authors #South Asian authors #Indian authors #South Asian Women authors #Desi authors

[yaworldchallenge]

🇮🇳 India

Region: South Asia

Kaikeyi

Author: Vaishnavi Patel 

432 pages, published 2022

Original language: English

Native author? Yes

Age: Teen-Adult

Blurb:

A stunning debut from a powerful new voice, Kaikeyi is the story of the infamous queen from the Indian epic the Ramayana. It is a tale of fate, family, courage, and heartbreak--of an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions--much good it did me.

So begins Kaikeyi's story. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on tales of the gods: how they churned the vast ocean to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land of Bharat prospers, and how they offer powerful boons to the devout and the wise. Yet she watches as her father unceremoniously banishes her mother, listens as her own worth is reduced to how great a marriage alliance she can secure. And when she calls upon the gods for help, they never seem to hear. 

Desperate for some measure of independence, she turns to the texts she once read with her mother and discovers a magic that is hers alone. With this power, Kaikeyi transforms herself from an overlooked princess into a warrior, diplomat, and most favored queen, determined to carve a better world for herself and the women around her. 

But as the evil from her childhood stories threatens the cosmic order, the path she has forged clashes with the destiny the gods have chosen for her family. And Kaikeyi must decide if resistance is worth the destruction it will wreak--and what legacy she intends to leave behind.

Other reps: #asexual #hindu

Genres: #mythology #fantasy #royalty #historical, ancient

My thoughts:

There were so many India-inspired books that looked amazing! I chose the newly released Kaikeyi due to it being a retelling of one of the Indian epics, which I know less about than I should. I’m going to put more of the books that I found on my to-read, for sure.

Review to come.

Bookshop.org link | Kindle link

#india #ya world challenge #diverse books #indian authors #kaikeyi #mythology #fantasy #royalty #historical ancient #asexual #hindu #southeast asia #asia