Books are our best friends through good and bad times. Keeping this idea in our mind, Niyogi Books announced a special treat for the readers on this World Book Day.  This will help you to pick from an amazing collection of Indian language literature in translation.

At the price of Rs 1, Niyogi Books, in collaboration with Indian Novels Collective will let you download each book each day over the next 20 days from 00.00 hours to 23.59.

Here is a list of the books on offer.

24 April: The Heroine and Other Stories by D. Jayakanthan (translated from Tamil)

25 April: Ballad of Kaziranga by DileepChandan (translated from Assamese)

26 April: Blossoms in the Graveyard by Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya (translated from Assamese)

27 April: Elegy for the East by Dhrubajyoti Borah(translated from Assamese)

28 April: Brink by S.L. Bhyrappa (translated from Kannada)

29 April: Kasturba Gandhi: A Bio-fiction by Giriraj Kishore(translated from Hindi)

30 April: A Plate of White Marble by Bani Basu (translated from Bengali)

1 May: A Day in the Life of Mangal Taram by Anita Agnihotri (translated from Bengali)

2 May: Island of Lost Shadows by E. Santhosh Kumar (translated from Malayalam)

3 May: Giligadu: The Lost Days by Chitra Mudgal (translated from Hindi)

4 May: Generations by Neela Padmanabhan (translated from Tamil)

5 May: A Fistful of Mustard Seeds by E. Santhosh Kumar (translated from Malayalam)

6 May: Land Lust by Joginder Paul (translated from Urdu)

7 May: Laila Ke Khutoot: The Letters of Laila by Qazi Abdul Ghaffar (translated from Urdu)

8 May: In the Glow of Your Being by Govind Mishra (translated from Hindi)

9 May: Kayakalpa: The Elixir of Everlasting Youth by Lakshmi Nandan Bora (translated from Assamese)

10 May: The Story of a Timepiece: A Collection of Short Stories by Sankarankutty Pottekkat (translated from Malayalam)

11 May: The Musk and Other Stories by Arupa Patangia Kalita (translated from Assamese)

12 May: Jallianwala Bagh: Literary Responses in Prose & PoetryEdited by Rakhshanda Jalil (translated from Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi)

13 May: Beasts of Burden by Imayam (translated from Tamil)

With most of us already again stuck in our homes yet again due to the second wave of the pandemic, this will indeed be a good way to relax, refresh the mind. This will also help reduce any negative thoughts that you might have during this time.

Stay happy, be positive, and read more books.

Priyanka Dutta