The lawns of Alipore Jail Museum, the venue for the Exide Kolkata Literary Meet, partnered by The Telegraph, were brimming with people. “I read The Inheritance of Loss (the acclaimed second novel by Desai, which won the 2006 Man Booker Prize) just as I stepped into college. Around 15km away, Central Park in Salt Lake, venue for the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair, was also packed throughout the day. In 2022, the book became the first novel translated from an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize. Her daughter, a student in Class IV, purchased a couple of books from the classic six-novel series Malory Towers by Enid Blyton.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2026 02:06 UTC