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#FlipkartAsksDevdutt – Tweetchat with Devdutt Pattanaik, October 12, 2017

October 10, 2017

Flipkart Stories Editorial

Join Devdutt Pattanaik, mythologist and author, in a real-time Twitter conversation with @FlipkartStories about his new book, The Boys Who Fought. The best audience questions and audience answers will win prizes. Register your question!

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#FlipkartBookwormQuiz – Read, play and win cool prizes

October 5, 2017

Flipkart Stories Editorial

Books nourish the soul and feed the imagination. Play the #FlipkartBookwormQuiz to find out how avid a reader you are. Five lucky winners will take home Flipkart gift vouchers worth ₹500 each. Ready to play?

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Interview: In Sita, Amish reveals a tough and tender heroine

June 1, 2017

Vivek Tejuja

Amish Tripathi’s books have awakened our nation’s passion for mythology and epic, giving us humanized versions of revered characters and infused with details from our history and culture. In his newest book, Sita – Warrior of Mithila, the second of the Ram Chandra series, Amish brings us face to face with the feminine icon — and perhaps reveals our own prejudices. Read on see what this blockbuster author says about modern myth and female protagonists.

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Meet Saurabh Sharma, Flipkart’s bestselling novelist

April 26, 2017

Flipkart Stories Editorial

Words can break barriers, create bonds, connect strangers, and even script a change. Saurabh Sharma’s bestselling novel has done all this and more. Armed with qualities of ruthless tenacity, innovation and thinking big — values that every Flipster strives to live by — Saurabh has written his own success story

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Interview: Devdutt Pattanaik on The Girl Who Chose

September 6, 2016

Vivek Tejuja

Devdutt Pattanaik asked himself the question: Does Sita choose in the Ramayana? “Suddenly, I found five situations where Sita makes remarkable choices that takes the narrative forward,” he says. Read this exclusive interview

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Nadeem Aslam on his Top 20 Favourite Books

July 20, 2016

Vivek Tejuja

British-Pakistani novelist Nadeem Aslam is the author of three highly acclaimed novels. The much-awarded writer lists the 20 favorite books he has read at least twice, at various times in his life

Harper Lee receives medal from George W Bush

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Harper Lee – 10 facts about the great author

February 20, 2016

Flipkart Stories Editorial

Harper Lee died on February 19 aged 89. We pay tribute to the great author of To Kill A Mockingbird, a book every human with a conscience should read.

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Ken Follett – The Flipkart interview

February 15, 2016

Flipkart Stories Editorial

The bestselling author declares that he set out to write books that are popular, not to win the Booker Prize. Read the Ken Follett interview, in which he speaks out to Flipkart about writing, reading, his favorite authors and influences