@Sharmistha

Sharmistha has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in September 2020. Besides social media accounts, Sharmistha has populated their site with Review: Broken Nest and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, The trees and rivers that talk of writing, The weary weight of womanhood, Review: No Place To Call My Own by Alina Gufran, ‘Deviants’: A life-affirming, heartbreaking intergenerational novel about queer life in India, Review: Summer of Then by Rupleena Bose, Garth Greenwell: “The book is structured like nesting dolls of brokenness”, ‘The Fertile Earth’: An epic debut novel about how class and caste dictates whom and how to love, The dead and the living | Review of ‘Martyr!’ by Kaveh Akbar, Review: This Our Paradise by Karan Mujoo, Love in the shadow of the Holocaust | Review of 2024 Booker Prize-shortlisted ‘The Safekeep’ by Yael van der Wouden, Review of Veronica Raimo’s ‘Lost on Me’, translated by Leah Janeczko and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, Kira Josefsson – “Working to bring Ia’s words into English was an unalloyed joy”, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, The Details review: Swedish writer Ia Genberg’s ode to love, literature and memory, Interview: Manav Kaul, author, Rooh - “I carry my home with me”, Murder on WhatsApp | Book review of ‘Chronicle of an Hour and a Half’ by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, ‘The Yellow Book’ makes the reader dig into their lives in search of good writing and conversations, Interview: Zeyad Masroor Khan – “My relationship with faith is always oscillating”, I Named My Sister Silence: How a Hindi novel depicts Chhattisgarh tribals’ plight, ‘A Bird On My Windowsill’: Actor-writer Manav Kaul’s book is an introspective guide for every artist, 'Western Lane' book review: Language of belonging, Grief, love and everything in between | Review of ‘Wednesday’s Child’, short stories by Yiyun Li, Review: This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara, The boy from Orwell’s town, Essay: Missing mothers in recent fiction, Why Amit Chaudhuri’s slim book ‘On Being Indian' is his manifesto of hope, Essay: Revisiting Pinjar in time for Amrita Pritam’s 104th birth anniversary, I interviewed Nilanjana Roy-‘I don’t think we should write stories being fearful of how they will be received’: Nilanjana S Roy, Book review | Barbara Kingsolver's 'Demon Copperfield' is a coming-of-age story of an orphan boy named Daemon, Two Books on the International Booker shortlist question one of life’s most consequential decisions – to be or not to be a mother., Fruits of the Barren Tree- Open The Magazine, Mental Health Awareness Month | Love finds a way amidst madness and chaos in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom, Your Mother’s Day Reading List: Lifelong Daughters and Queer Mothers, The Bride: Review, The Book of Bihari Literature: Scroll.in, Being Assamese in India: The Black Magic Women, Gods and Ends: Review, A Passage North : Review, In Conversation With Author Jahnavi Barua, On George Orwell’s 1984 - Orwell’s ‘1984’ made a prophecy, how close is it from today’s reality?, Say hello on Instagram, Connect with me on LinkedIn.