However, despite many obstacles, it appears that college and university students in India are still fighting to make space for books in their lives, exhibiting a wide range of reading preferences, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.
Books on Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Vedanta literature worth over Rs 50 lakh were sold in the recently-concluded 47th International Kolkata Book Fair.
Following the opening of the Ram Mandir, mythology has surged in popularity at the fair, with the "365 Vedas" book by Ajay Mago, renowned for Om Books International's children's fiction, emerging as the top-selling title in the genre.
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"While keeping the epic's storyline mostly intact, I have changed some events and subplots, added new scenes or twists, and altered a few characters as I needed to narrate Sita's story for contemporary readers," Panikcer said.
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The list includes four novels, seven poetry books, two plays, five short stories, an epic poetry and a memoir in twenty Indian languages.
Being unable to find a job for 18 months, she immersed herself into writing. She remembers,"I poured a lot of my early doubts about the future into 'A Court of Thorns and Roses'.
