#Books by indian authors

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TOP FIVE INDIAN AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS

Literature is a colourful tapestry with the colours of different authors and their iconic pieces. These iconic pieces are contributed by the most iconic and famous Indian authors. Bookswagon, with its wide range of books, presents you with a collection of books by top 5 Indian authors. These books have left an indelible mark on the landscape of literature.

Navigate the digital aisle of bookswagon and get your hands on the books by the most popular authors of India. Here are some of the authors whose books can make your head spin. Following are the books by top 5 Indian authors.

Rabindranath Tagore: Rabindra Nath Tagore, often known as Gurudev, has made a huge contribution in the field of literature. His works reflect the beauty of nature and an in-depth understanding of human emotions. He wrote in the languages Bengal and English. One of his extraordinary works is “Geetanjali”. It is a collection of poems that was originally published in Bengal but was later translated into English for a greater range of readers to access it. This devotional work is the author's admiration of nature and his appreciation for humanity. Some other books by Tagore are “Gora”, “Chokher-Bali” and “Ghare-Baire” talk about love, identity and social justice.

R.K. Narayan: Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami was an author who has contributed a lot in the field of modern Indian literature. His first novel was “Swami and Friends” which marked the beginning of his journey in the fictional world of literature. “The Malgudi series”  includes many of his novels such as “The Bachelor of Arts”, “The Guide” and “The English Teacher”. These books successfully capture the essence that lies in Indian life.

Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist whose texts scream harsh facts and truth. One of her brilliant works is “The god of small things”. It is an award-winning novel that talks about the themes of love, family cast and social injustice. The story revolves around a fraternal twin Rehal and Esta who live in Kerala as their lives take a sharp turn. The story shifts from a rich luxurious lifestyle to a lifestyle that describes the struggle of complexities of Indian households and society. The story brings memory, identity and the impact of colonialism to create an image of Indian society. Some of her influential works are “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, “ War Talk”, and “Capitalism: A Ghost Story”. These books deal with the topics of human rights, environmental injustice and globalization.

Jhumpa Lahiri: Jhumpa Lehri is an Indian-American writer whose fictional work covers the themes of identity, belonging and immigrant experience. The texts by stand out due to vivid characters and in-depth insights into human relationships and bonds.“Interpreter of Maladies” was her first work which gained popularity and recognition in 1999. Her stories reflect the experience of longing, love, and loss and also talk about struggles faced by immigrants.

Vikram Seth: Vikram Seth is a well-known Indian author who got recognised by his debut novel, “The Golden Gate”, which covers the themes of love and happiness. His “A Suitable Boy” too came into recognition due to its ability to talk about the themes of love, life, politics, religion, social convention and relationships all together. “Mapping”, and” All You Who Sleep Tonight” are some of his other works.

Bookswagon never disappoints you when it comes to catering to you with the best. It has a plethora of Famous Indian Authors and Their Books that will leave an ever-lasting impact on you and your mindset.

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This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.

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came across a few books from the horror genre by indian authors at a cafe i visited. this looked like an impressive collection from a very niche genre. the titles include:

ghosts in our backyard by alisha ‘priti’ kripalani

spooky stories by kaveri gopalkrishnan

the haunting of delhi city by jatin bhasin and suparna chawla bhasin

india’s most haunted by k. hari kumar

[finalgirrls]

A playlist for one of the best literary horror girlies: Jade Daniels from the Jade Daniels trilogy (My Heart is a Chainsaw, Don’t Fear the Reaper, and The Angel of Indian Lake) written by Stephen Graham Jones.

I had to make this as I read an advance copy of The Angel of Indian Lake (out later this year!!) with a moodboard because I’m well into my feelings about the series and Jade.

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I need I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones to be released yesterday. I cannot explain how excited i am for that book

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The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.

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I've been quiet these days... It's because I co-wrote and published a bilingual children's book set in my home country! Written in English and Spanish, my book is titled JUANITA and it's about the contemporary migrant experience in the Caribbean from a child's perspective.

JUANITA is the ideal tool for both children and adults to learn English or Spanish as a second language. It features a main story, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary lists, and written reflection exercises.

And guess what! It's available right now worldwide on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback format!

Link to Kindle purchase: here!

Link to paperback purchase: here!

Link to Goodreads page: here!

Give us a purchase, rate, and review if you would like! For language learners and people looking for Hispanic and/or Caribbean representation, JUANITA is my recommendation to you!

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Some aesthetics and POV Banners I made for some Wattpad stories <3

[veluigi]

more OR trip pics. loved seeing indian & asian diasporic-authored books for younger readers, seed library, library of things, teen center and more

[annagxx]

His pov:

"I never got her flowers, and she never complained; now every sunday I visit her with a bouquet of her fav flowers but she won't say anything, I refused to call her when I was working or occupied but now every sec of mine is filled with her thoughts, I neglected her needs mostly but she still used to look after me, she cherished me with all her heart, but now she neglects mine, I feel the most lucky man alive that a woman like her loved me but at the same time I'm the most unlucky man alive because death stole her from me." as the tear fell from his eyes, it carried with it the weight of all the unspoken words, buried emotions and pure guilt. It wasn't just a tear; it was a silent scream, a testament to the pain he could no longer hide. In that single drop, a lifetime of sorrow and heartache seemed to overflow, leaving behind a trail of vulnerability that he had to live with for the rest of his life, cos he lost someone who would die for him once again.

The real monologue is very lengthy, it's just a small piece, if you wanna read the whole thing feel free to dm 🤍

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Tapati, who is she, and why is she significant?

Well, first, she is a river goddess, but daughter of the sun god, Surya. However, her name means the hot one, the burning one. Interestingly enough, her name is tied to the river she's said to rule over - HOWEVER, language time.

Agni, a vedic fire god, has a scythian counterpart similar in name (and the scythian's are the older culture that broke off to form the vedic, indo iranian/iranian, and levant people as well as others - mixing, breeding, invading).

Back to Tapati.

Her name is cognate with the Scythian supreme fire goddess, Tabiti. Very interesting.

Tabiti is the supreme goddess of all things in the Scythian culture, primordial, the first flame, and much like Ianna (from Summerian mythology I talked about later) went on to inspire entire god/goddess roles, and had mantles inverted as interestingly enough, there's evidence some first/supreme deities were feminine, later flipped to male as cultures evolved - their places/roles attributes assigned to male gods and their places changed - made wives, daughters, so on a similar sort of flipping happens out of the Scythian culture/ proto Indo Europeans (that I've talked about) where the root word for a divine (doesn't mean good just divinely powered) being evolved along languages the ahura, asura, and asir (Norse) come from an older proto Indo-European/Scythian word.

In the Vedic stories, the daevas are good, the asura evil. In the Avestan and Iranian texts...the ahura/asura are good, and the daevas are evil.

We know the Norse asir and vanir warred also very interesting. And interesting how gods/goddesses are changed, subsumed, adopted and more, no? Tabiti was never represented in/by art, btw. Her representation was always an actual fireplace -- a flame. That's what you used.

There's historical written evidence in places of Agni's animal form being both referred to as a bull, AND a cow in places - different genders. And his flame being referred to as female in places.

In the Hindu bronze age, Agni had way more of a prominent role as fire did before later dwindling...as fire does (ooooo symbolic - okay that's just cuz of time and shifting priorities), but there are more similarities of these things in Baltic cultures -- but oh why?

(Why am I hopping around? Cuz gods/goddesses, archetypes, beats, stories all do too - all connected you muppets).

Well, did you know the closest cognate to Sanskrit is Lithuanian? It's kept so much of its proto Indo European roots.

Wait, a South Asian language and Baltic European language are cognates? YUH. WEIRD.

Almost like they both derived out of an older culture, language, their practices, beliefs and more.

And most of human history is just migrating, fucking, invading, and settling in new places and staying long enough until your features continue to change due to bow chicka wow wowing and environment.

Funny how that works.

Here's some Scythian clothing (oh btw, women were warriors/could be too - congrats you learned that).

Does this style look familiar? Yeah, you can see the evolution/adaptation from this to later styles (bearing similarities) in Iran, India, Mongolia, the Baltics.

Cuz....y'know, that's where the proto Indo Europeans went about their biz and got jiggy with it and settled. Wow-wow-wee-wah! Okay now I'm done. Circular ish convo to get there but started with a fire goddess, it's relevant, but it all comes back to this.

Btw, this is also an important lesson for fantasy authors.

Because of all these connections and how old a bad ass fire goddess is, many of the oldest cultures are regarded as fire worshippers (like the Zoroastrians) did you know some keep an eternal burning flame? -- one is in Udvada Gujarat in India.

This flame has been said to have been kept burning for 1,500 years.

FIFTEEN HUNDRED.

And again, while most of the surviving Indo Iranic sun gods are male, there is evidence the ORIGINAL sun deity (including in/from the German, Baltic, and Slavic religions) was FEMALE.

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[triviareads]

finally got my hands on The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran, a book about an earl who gets kidnapped and thrown on a convict ship bound of Australia(!!!) and now he's BACK and out for REVENGE and his wife's understandably pissed he just disappeared on their wedding night.

[inkscribbled]

Where do people go once tales end? Also where do old birds go to die? Why don't old ones fall like stones from the sky?

[dikshaaaaaaa]

There are things I wanna scream out loud but I am afraid somebody would hear ....and there are things I wanna talk about but I fear nobody would listen ...