It’s been a great start to the first quarter of 2024 for Racket Boy! First, there was our dynamic debut at the KL Alternative Book Fair, with the dragon ushering in prosperity and good tidings for the iconic Central Market where the book fair took place. In quick succession, our Malaysia publisher, Gerakbudaya, participated in …
When, within ten minutes of getting into your vehicle, you’re greeted on the street by a bossing elephant, you just know Jaipur is going to take “literary tourism” to other horizons! I timed my visit to this sensational terrain with the Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) that promised “an inimitable experience with characteristic flavour”, courtesy of …
During my travels in the south Indian states of Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala, I visited India’s oldest bookshop, trekked up a hill to explore an ancient cave with archaeological importance, stopped by a major grape growing region, marvelled at India’s largest earthen dam, toured a historic fort operated at various points in history by the …
It was my first time attending the Chennai International Book Fair (CIBF) although I’ve travelled to this land of tantalising culture, heritage, banana leaf and filter coffee enough times to have established favourite go-to joints, and friendship network ever-prepared to show me this rapidly growing city’s latests. In three action-packed days Chennai swung with flair, …
Argentina grows on me like Italy has, as each day I take in Phil’s travel notes, photos and the occasional video while he slow-travels the length and breadth of the country he calls “my place”. The two countries may have more than seven thousand miles separating them yet the glaring similarities between them cannot be …
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