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Mother Mary Comes To Me insists that it is an article of dissent. From its flaming red hardcover gazes a young Arundhati Roy, beedi in mouth—a brand aesthetic around a politics of defiance, carefully curated by designers at the publishing giant, Penguin.

On May 21st, author Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, a collection of twelve short stories, originally written in Kannada and later translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, won the coveted International Booker Prize, becoming the first ever Kannada book to do so. It came as a rebuke to India’s literary establishment.

Ashoka alum Nayantara Violet Alva’s (UG’19) debut novel, Liberal Hearts has already become a topic of conversation at Ashoka University.

For the first time, a South Korean author, Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize In Literature in 2024 “for her intense poetic prose that con