Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5) Some novels tell a story. Others create an emotional space that readers inhabit long after they have turned the final page. Based on the excerpts available, Eighteen Inches Apart by Sonia Bahl belongs to the latter category. It is…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4/5) Published by Rupa Publications, 2026 | 184 pages In Folktales, Myths and Legends from the Deccan, Nitin Kushalappa assembles an engaging collection of folk narratives, myths and oral epics drawn from the vast cultural landscape of South India…
Leela Mad Math and Witchery I met my best friend when I was six. Fell irrevocably in love with him at sixteen. Married him at twenty. Became a mother of two at twenty-two. And a widow at twenty‑nine. When I…
ABOUT THE BOOK: Life is a mosaic of misery and meaningfulness—it offers both rainstorms and rainbows. While it tests us with setbacks, turbulence, loss, and trauma, it also blesses us with the gift of resilience. Often, when fear, chaos, and…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) Alpa Arora’s Floating Worlds is a deeply introspective novel that explores the fragile boundary between reality and imagination, love and longing, sanity and self-discovery. Through the psychological journey of its protagonist Ruby Khanna, the novel examines themes…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.9/5) Introduction Salini Vineeth’s The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen is a lyrical, genre-blending novel that moves between folklore and contemporary realism to explore gender identity, shame, inheritance, and the cost of silence. Set against the vivid landscape…
Part I – Here 1. The heavy May heat had settled downwards as night arrived, like a suffocating blanket that offered dull acceptance rather than relief. Each breath, languorous and slow; in and out, relying on a disappointing routine for…
Selected Poems by Kiriti SenguptaPublished by Transcendent Zero Press (Houston, TX)Hardback | Page: 228 | INR 750 August 2025ISBN-13: 978-1946460660 Reviewed ByMohar DaschaudhuriProfessor, Centre for French and Francophone StudiesSchool of LanguagesJNU, New Delhi Poet, translator, editor and publisher, Kiriti Sengupta dons many hats.…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆(4 /5 stars) Introduction Grief rarely follows a straight path; it loops back unexpectedly, revisits uninvited, and alters the way memories are held and stories are told. While some authors try to impose order on this experience by crafting…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(5 /5 stars) Introduction Ipsita Chakravarty’s Dapaan: Tales from Kashmir’s Conflict weaves together reportage and narrative to immerse readers in the everyday realities of Kashmir. The title itself, taken from the Kashmiri word dapaan—“it is said”—captures the uncertainty of rumour, half-truths, and…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4/5 stars) Ponnu Elizabeth Mathew’s debut novel, The Remnants of Rebellion, is both a sweeping family saga and a profound exploration of Kerala’s socio-political past. Spanning generations, it meditates on memory, inheritance, and the reverberations of revolt that endure…