Book Stop

In this Bookstop episode, Suneetha Balakrishnan introduces you to Indian English writer Anita Desai. Anita Desai was a well-known figure in the field of Indian English writing before Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Rai. The wonderful literary works of author Anita Desai take readers on unforgettable journeys. Her writing has received three Booker Prize nominations.

In this episode of Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about one of the most prestigious awards in the world, the Nobel Prize. Each year, a year of preparation goes into selecting the Nobel laureates. But is the procedure as transparent, open, and well-maintained as we believe? Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about how the Nobel Prize is given to wrong people sometimes due to Judjes prejudistic min...

Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses some of the well-known diaries in in this episode of Bookstop. Writers' diaries are arguably the most popular. This list includes several notable people including Frida Kahlo, Helen Keller, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath. There are hundreds of diaries available everywhere that were written during times of crisis and conflict in the world. These notes enable us...

This week on Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned novelist, and his most recent book, "Until August.". His last novel was published a decade after Márquez's death. After Márquez's death in 2014, multiple drafts, notes, and chapters of the last novel he attempted to write were kept in his archives at the Harry Ransom Center at the Univers...

Suneetha Balakrishnan introduces several not-so-celebrated people in the literary world in this episode of Book Stop. You might think it is about some writers who received little or no attention. but here it is about some women who were the wives of world-famous writers. Some of them invested everything they had in their husband's career. while some couldn't Grow their careers because all...

This time at Bookstop, Sunitha Balakrishnan introduces you to renowned Russian author Andrei Platonov. Andrei Platonov is Regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. The outside world did not start to hear about him or discuss him until the 1990s. In Soviet Russia, his art was banned. His writings were tightly suppressed even though he was a committed communist. Despite receiving fa...

The Prophet, a well-known work by Lebanese-American poet and author Kahlil Gibran, is being introduced by Suneetha Balakrishnan in this episode of BookStop. It is Gibran's most well-known composition. The Prophet is one of the most translated and best-selling books of all time, having been translated into over 116 languages. Printing of it has never stopped. The Prophet was written a century a...

In this episode of BookStop, Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses the advancements that happened in the writing industry in 2023. This year will be remembered as significant in the literary world, regardless of any literary awards or the ascent or decline of literary personalities. A significant problem that will impact the literary world was acknowledged in 2023, and it sparked talks, writings, strike...

Suneetha Balakrishnan introduces you to five well-known Indian dystopian books in the most recent episode of "Bookstop." A dystopian society is a terrifying and degrading imaginary community. An idealized state or location where everything is as horrible as it can get. Numerous books explore the idea of a dystopian society. The five books we learn about in this episode are Animal's P...

You are introduced to two Iraqi bloggers, by Suneetha Balakrishnan in the most recent episode of "Bookstop." Salam Pax and Riverbend. These two people used to blog about the real horrors of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq , under fake names. Through this blog, the world comes to know what's happening to the common people of Iraq and how much they suffer. Even if these blogs were t...

in this episode of bookstop, suneetha balakrishnam introduces you to Agatha Christie, the queen of crime novels. she is one of the best-selling novelist of all time with her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap. However, the greatest mystery in all of Agatha Christie's works was in her own life. She mysteriously vanishe...

This edition of Book Stop features Shashi Deshpande's memoir, "Listen to Me." Within its pages, readers can explore the literary and cultural evolution of Indian English literature from the 1980s onwards, with a particular focus on the insights and experiences of women writers during that era. In "Listen to Me," Shashi Deshpande shares her personal journey, offering readers...

In this episode of Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan introduces you to the very famous writer of the twentieth century, Daphne du Maurier, and her most successful work, Rebecca. Interestingly, Rebbeca, which was published in 1938, was not at first taken seriously by critics. Most people wrote about it as an average romance novel. but later Rebecca ended up being the best-selling novel of the past 8...

The rise and fall of Enid Blyton who is known as the Empress of Children's literature is an interesting episode in world literature. In the latest episode of Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan speaks about why her works became controversial, the reason behind BBC refusing to broadcast her stoies and more

Mohammed Moulessehoul is an Algerian novelist, who has explored the Civil Wars in Arab countries in a different way. Why had he taken shelter under a pseudonym Yasmina Khadra for several years? How and when has he decided to reveal his identity? And why the French media described him as a man with blood stained hands? Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about all these and more on Yasmina khadra in the la...

Susan Abulhawa's parents became refugees following the 1967 Six Day War. Decades later, she returned to Palestine and started an organization called Playgrounds for Palestine for the victim children of political conflict. Susan started writing with political goals to expose the plight of Palestine to the world. In the latest episode of Book Stop podcast, Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses the lif...

What will be the five things that haunt those who are on their dying beds? Top five by The Top Five Regrets of the Dying discusses the learnings she had acquired from those who had been dying. There was a time when top five The Top Five Regrets of the Dying struggled to get a publisher, says Suneetha Balakrishnan in the latest episode of book stop podcast

Domenico Starnone is one among the best Italian writers of our times. His novel 'The House on Via Gemito' won the prestigious Premio Strega Prize in 2001. The latest episode of Bookstop podcast by Suneetha Balakrishan discusses the literary life of Domenico Starnone and the evolution Premito Strega Prize.

shahidul zahir is known as the Marquez of Bangladesh. Like Marquez, he is an exponent of magical realism in literature. His masterpiece is the novel 'Life and Political Reality', based on the Bangladesh liberation struggle of 1971. In this episode of Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses the works of shahidul zahir

In this episode of Bookstop, Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about the first booker prize winner P H Newby, his literary life, his connection to the BBC, and the booker winning book - Something To Answer For.

This episode of Book Stop podcast discusses the works of British Novelist Shiva Naipaul. In the short life of 40 years, he has done some commendable works in which he challenged conventional values

In this episode of Bookstop, Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about the British-Polish artist Jan Pienkowski, his connection to the Booker Prize trophy, and how the trophy got its name.

Vivek Shanbag is a Kannada writer whose work has recently found place in The New York Times best seller list. His novella Ghachar Ghochar has been listed by the NYT for specific literary reasons . In the latest episode of Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan speaks about Vivek Shanbag and his 2015 work Ghachar Ghochar.

When we recall the contributions of renowned Botanist Janaki Ammal who died in 1984 on this Women's Day, there is another woman too whose name needs to be remembered along with. What is the contribution of Dr Savithri Preetha Nair to keep the memory of Janaki Ammal alive? Suneetha Balakrishnan speaks about these topics on the women's day special episode of Book Stop podcast

Claris Lispector is one of the finest Brazilian authors. Still, translation of her works had posed tough challenges to translators. In the new episode of Book Stop podcast, Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses the life and writings of Lispector.