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November 30, 2021

How a translator’s collective makes room for richer conversations and an inclusive way of life

The Indian Express

Set up in 2017, the collective aims to bridge the gap between the English reader and classics of Indian literature, with translations and events around them.

September 20, 2021

Home fires: Review of ‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’ by Usha Priyamvada, translated by Daisy Rockwell

The Hindu

Published in 1961, translated 60 years later, ‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’ could be the story of any young, urban, middle-class woman today, who, pushed into the role of the family breadwinner, is unable to fulfil her personal dreams. Read Jyoti Punwani’s review of the book.

August 22, 2021

More Than Words

The Sunday Express

How a translator’s collective makes room for richer conversations and an inclusive way of life.

May 4, 2021

Download these books at Re 1 per book

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The Dispatch covers our initiative for World Book Day with Niyogi Books and details the ongoing collaboration of sharing a book a day to keep anxiety at bay. Read more on the link or our blog.

November 21, 2020

How the pandemic has widened the opportunity to take translated literature to readers

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The Indian Novels Collective has taken advantage of increased online reach during the lockdown. Read more on Scroll.in

July 5, 2020

Poetry Will See Us Through

mid-day.com

The Fort bookstore Kitab Khana in association with Indian Novels Collective (INC) has started putting up live poetry sessions every evening on Instagram.

July 5, 2020

Poetry in the time of corona

The Week

In this time of spiralling chaos and uncertainty, look no further than poetry for curative metaphors and images. Poems are lifesaving drugs whose intake in isolation has proven restorative powers.

July 5, 2020

Watch: These poetry reading sessions took literature into locked down lives via Instagram

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The events were organised by Kitab Khana bookshop and the Indian Novels Collective, both based in Mumbai.

July 5, 2020

Meter matters on social media

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

April is national poerty onth and several poets and poetry groups are going live on social media to read their works to ease the heaviness of lockdown.

July 5, 2020

Verses in the time of virus: Poetry Live unites 71 quarantined poets on Instagram

ThePrint.in

Indian Novels Collective and Mumbai bookstore Kitab Khana brought together renowned and new-generation poets together on Instagram via daily lockdown poetry sessions.

October 30, 2019

Speaking Silence

The Indian Quarterly

The Indian Novels Collective is the latest attempt to fill the cultural vacuum caused by loss of language. Here’s what Preksha Sharma has to say about Indian languages and the reader community that Indian Novels Collective has begun to create.

May 17, 2019

In India, a Collective emerges to translate classic works into English

nonprofitquarterly.org

Here’s an article by Nonprofit Quarterly on how Indian Novels Collective aims to make Indian language novels accessible to the English readers through their promising endeavour.

May 16, 2019

Why is a Literary Collective translating 100 classic Indian novels?

bookriot.com

Read Book Riot’s take on Indian Novels Collective’s ambitious translation undertaking.

May 6, 2019

Indian Novels Collective hopes to help millennials access the classics of their regional cultures

The Hindu

Read what Indian Novels Collective (INC), a Mumbai-based group dedicated to translating Indian novels into English is doing to preserve Indian literature.

August 2, 2018

Premchand and joy of translation

Mumbai Mirror

Here’s translator and literary critic Shanta Ghokale’s account on the evening Remembering Premchand.

August 1, 2018

MoU signed to publish translations of Indian literary works

Business Standard

In an attempt to bring out translations of Indian literary works, publishing house Speaking Tiger has signed an MoU with JSW Group and Indian Novels Collective. Read more on the development in the press link.

August 1, 2018

Millennials can soon browse Odia, Tamil, Konkani classics in English

The Times of India

To ensure contemporary Indian classics are reintroduced to GenNext, Indian Novels Collective has launched a project to translate a hundred twentieth-century novels from various Indian languages into English. Read more on the press link.

August 1, 2018

JSW Group signs MoU with Speaking Tiger Publishers and Indian Novels Collective to take Indian literature to the world

Indian News and Times

Read the details of the arrangement, the books and the reason why this project is being undertaken in the press link.

August 1, 2018

MoU signed to publish translations of Indian literary works

EenaduIndia.com

In an attempt to bring out translations of Indian literary works, publishing house Speaking Tiger has signed an MoU with JSW Group and Indian Novels Collective. Read more on the development in the press link.

August 1, 2018

How a non-profit collective is bringing regional literature translations to the forefront

The Week

Here’s what Sneha Bura of the week writes about the announcement of the first lot of five books going into translation.

June 20, 2018

Reviving the past: A literary collective is translating 100 classic novels across Indian languages.

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Read Bhavya Dore’s story on the Indian Novels Collective discussing its objective, vision and plans.

June 19, 2018

‘It’s like wearing a sari vs. wearing jeans, you just walk differently’

The Hindu

Last weekend, Kitab Khana hosted the second edition of the Indian Novels Collective (INC), an initiative to create awareness about regional literature. During a span of two hours, some of the city’s renowned authors, poets, translators, theatre actors convened to encourage the audience to access regional literature. Click on the image above to read the entire article.

June 17, 2018

Indian Novel Collective – Mrs. Sangita Jindal

JSW Group YouTube Channel

Mrs. Sangita Jindal, the Chairman of the JSW Foundation, reads Kabuliwallah in front of an engrossed audience at the Indian Novels Collective launch. Click the link below to view the reading.

June 15, 2018

Like an open book

Financial Express

Indian Novels Collective with an aim to reach new dimensions to English readers is bringing non-English regional classics to them. Read on to find out more.

June 2, 2018

The Print joins Indian Novels Collective as its digital partner

ThePrint.in

In an attempt to bring the classics of non-English Indian literature to English readers, The Print will join hands with Indian Novels Collective. Read on to find out more about this collaboration.

June 1, 2018

Richa Chadha, Vivek Oberoi turn storytellers at Times Litfest

Bombay Times

Books and films have much in common. Making this clear to the audience on the final day of the Times Litfest 2017 were actors Richa Chadha and Vivek Oberoi. The duo flexed their literary muscles as they took to the mic at a session titled ‘Bioscope Classics’. Read on to find out more.

May 30, 2018

Spreading the literary treasures of India

Mumbai Mirror

As a new generation of English readers show different reading habits, Indian Novels Collective has taken the initiative to gift the wealth of Indian literature to them. Find out how.

May 28, 2018

Found in Translation: A few noteworthy initiatives are helping Indian literature breach the language barrier

FirstPost.com

Recent translation efforts have boosted new life in the Indian publishing space, as it breaks language barriers and touches the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Find out how the Indian Novels Collective is in a process of translating 100 novels across India.