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An illustration from Edward Lear’s The Book of Nonsense—27th Edition (1889). The accompanying limerick goes: “There was a Young Lady whose bonnet/ Came untied when the birds sate upon it;/ But she said, ‘I don’t care! all the birds in the air/ Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!’”

A family of animal whisperers

My grandmother often thought of herself as a bird and talked to our pet cuckoo in his own language.

Anusua Mukherjee

The cover of 1872.

Documenting 150 years of Christianity in Nagaland

This graphic non-fiction work animates the people and places associated with the momentous event.

Anusua Mukherjee

The complete Song of the Soil team at Rachna Books (from right): Chuden Kabimo, author; Anurag Basnet, editor; Raman Shresta, publisher; and Ajit Baral, translator.

Chuden Kabimo: ‘Translated books influenced me a lot’

Song of the Soil is the English translation of Kabimo’s debut novel in Nepali, Fatsung.

Anusua Mukherjee

One feels like lingering inside Rachna Books forever, browsing the collection.

Rachna Books beckons the book-loving tourist in Gangtok

Song of the Soil, a book it had published, was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature in 2022.

Anusua Mukherjee

Ritwick Dutta: “The most problematic aspect of the approval is that it marks a fundamental shift in the approach towards the protection of forests in the country.”

‘Limited intervention was in the best interest of the islands’: Ritwick Dutta

Interview with the environmental lawyer, activist, author, and co-founder of advocacy group LIFE.

Anusua Mukherjee

Cover of “The Museum of the World”

When the twain met

A fascinating story made out of real-life adventures of three Bavarian scientist-explorers in 19th-century India.

Anusua Mukherjee

A view of Mt Kanchenjunga from Temi tea gardens.

Amidst the magic mountains of Sikkim

Seeing Mt Kanchenjunga and river Teesta, after 12 long years, on a trip to north Sikkim.

Anusua Mukherjee

A farmer from Assam’s Lakhimpur district shows his crops destroyed by heavy siltation in the Ranganadi river in 2017.

Mega dams in Arunachal Pradesh a threat to its environment and people

It is at odds with the State government’s commitment to ‘climate resilient development’.

Anusua Mukherjee

A Monpa woman winnowing maruwa crops in Jang in Arunachal Pradesh. Monpas use maruwa to prepare wheat, beer and other daily food items.

Meats dominate cuisine in Arunachal Pradesh

Indigenous groups have traditionally relied on cattle, farm, and game for nutrition.

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Cover of ‘The Bellboy’

The invisible boy

The latest novel by Anees Salim devastates with its pithiness, suggesting much more than it says.

Anusua Mukherjee

‘Poetry works to encourage discovery’

In ‘Tales of Hazaribagh’, Mihir Vatsa traces the connections between poetry, rivers, and forests.

Anusua Mukherjee

India at 75 - Fiction

Beacons that light up the path to understanding post-Independence Indian literature.

Anusua Mukherjee