My earliest memories are of sitting on the floor of a bookshop and gazing at pictures in a book. I do not know if these are actual memories or if the image is imprinted in my brain from the stories told to me by my parents. The context here is that, soon after my birth, Read more…
As a child, I remember growing up listening to my grandma’s wonderful stories, which were recited to me as songs. The characters in those stories would meander in my imagination and I would play with all those cows, buffaloes, princes, princesses, and all the other characters that came alive in the colorful world of a Read more…
My love relationship with reading actually began way back in 2009. I was a ninth-standard kid back then. I can still remember that fateful English class in which we had a story reading session from O. Henry’s collection. It was titled The Girl and the Graft.
My tryst with books began when I was 8 years old, during a vacation when I accidentally stumbled upon my older sister’s English book. I was bored and had no one to play with, which led me to coming across Oliver Twist. Together with it, I conspired to kill my boredom. I had been reading Read more…
A hydel-power project in the remote Himalayas. Three people brought together by fate. Nanda, an engineer from Kerala at the dam construction site hiding from his past, from the law, torn between the love of his dear ones and the traditional kalari code of revenge.
Books Ameya commenced its journey on April 27, 2018 as The Ameya Literary Foundation (TALF). A month later, we cut short our name to Books Ameya, or simply Ameya, which is the Sanskrit word for the endless – a word that perfectly describes our desire and appetite for books. We believe that our previous logo Read more…
Every person’s life is in a book, half filled, and half yet to be written. Will you be the author to yours? Books were my companion when, as a child, I had very few interactions with the outside world. The other cool kids always knew the moves to the latest songs, the latest shows, and Read more…
“How could those who had committed Nazi crimes or watched them happen or looked away while they were happening or tolerated the criminals among them after 1945 or even accepted them – how could they have anything to say to their children? But on the other hand, the Nazi past was an issue even for Read more…
Summary: It is the early nineteenth century. The British East India Company has been bringing in Chinese indentured laborers to work in the tea gardens of Assam and West Bengal. Amidst days of misery and toil, they slowly begin to find contentment in their day-to-day lives. Descended from the slave Ho Han, Mei Lin lives Read more…
