Bookshelf by Usawa
Across ULR and Matchbox — essays, reviews, excerpts, and interviews in conversation with books that shape our time.

Children’s Books: An Indian Story
by Editors: Shailaja Menon and Sandhya Rao
Children’s Books: An Indian Story is a 2022 edited volume that traces the evolution, diversity, and cultural significance...
Excerpts

India’s Forests: Revisiting Nature and History
by Suchi Govindarajan
India’s Forests brings together essays by some of the country’s leading scholars with a fresh view of nature...
Book Reviews

Letters From Your Therapist: On Love And Loss
by Kareena Mehta
Excerpts

The Man Traps
by Kalashree Sengupta
The Man Traps helps women recognize toxic relationship patterns, emotional manipulation, and trauma bonding before they become deeply...
Excerpts

moon blooms
by Athira Unni
Athira Unni asks the important questions: whether our lives are just storyboards, and when it’s gone, whether we...
Excerpts

Stories the Fire could not Burn
by Hoihnu Hauzel
Journalist and author Hauzel writes from inside the Kuki-Zomi experience of Manipur's devastating ethnic conflict — the night...
Book Reviews
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Dive deeper into conversations with the authors, activists, and thinkers shaping contemporary feminist literature.
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