If Wishes Were Books
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Turning our backs to our TBR pile, we draw up a wish list of the fiction we wish would come out of the Indian literary scene. A novel about friendship in today's India? What about ditching the fixation with mother-daughter relationships, and instead writing about aunties? And isn't it about time we had fantasy fiction that wasn't rooted in religious mythology? You can find Supriya Nair at @supriyanair, Deepanjana Pal at @dpanjana and Mae Thomas at @maemariyam on Instagram. This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at www.maedinindia.in.  Theme Music: Easy Wanderlings - Here’s to You If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at [email protected].  For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out: https://thelitpickers.fanlink.to/books
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