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An Indian publication featuring stories on people’s relationships with books and reading. The Reader also explores the intersection of books with mental health, gender, community building, and more. To contribute, email: editor.thereader@gmail.com

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Jun 1, 2018

Writer Richa Kaul Padte On India’s Bhabhi Fetish, Masturbating To A Book, And More

“The reason Savita Patel is so relatable is because like all real women, she lives in the grey areas.”

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May 31, 2018

Behind Viral Tweets & Trends: The Wire's Karnika Kohli On Anxiety, Social Media & More

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May 20, 2018

Writing A Feminist Thriller On Female Foeticide: Interview With Deepanjana Pal

A tightly paced…

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Aug 17, 2015

Airplane Poetry Movement: Putting Spoken Word In The Indian Spotlight

“Spoken word poetry gives you a medium to reproduce the missing voice of the generation.”

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Apr 9, 2015

Watch: A Beautiful Film About Bombay’s Relationship With Books

‘Books in the Big City’ is a short film…

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Jan 7, 2015

You Can Now Leave A Voicemail About A Book You Love

By Radhika Iyengar

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Call Me Ishmael is a website that is a quasi-book club which also functions as a repository of beautiful human stories and experiences. It invites people to call from…

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Dec 28, 2014

Protesting With Paperbacks

By Pratika Yashaswi

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Turkey in the summer of 2013 was conflagrant.

It began with the police interrupting a peaceful demonstration by a group of 50 environmentalists at Gezi Park, Istanbul, with the the…

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Dec 4, 2014

What Would Your Favourite Authors Order At Starbucks?

By Aditi Mehta

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It is not very often that one comes across a blog that touches something deep within, and fills the being with an oft forgotten love for words. This is a unique love…