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Kanmani & Co. by Lalitha Ramanathan was a trip to my childhood, to the days when I used to be hooked on Enid Blyton’s. The book is a delightful, fun, easy, cute read. Right from the naughty protagonists to the narrative, Lalitha brings us an offering that everyone will relate …

As an Indian woman, I have spent much of my life being defined by one thing above all else: brownness. Sawla rang became my identity long before womanhood did. Colour prejudice in India is deeply normalized, especially for women. Growing up in India meant learning very early that melanin is …

Coffee is my love language. Not flowers. Not chocolates. Not expensive gifts. Coffee. Well that and furry babies but that’s material for another post. Hand me a well-brewed cup of coffee and I’ll emotionally commit faster than Gappu (my dog) with his chewy treat. Unfortunately, courtesy a deeply discourteous lactose …

Chaos in a coupe by Divya Dugar is a book that snuck into my TBR (ever since she kindly invited me for the launch) and refused to behave. Like Divya’s pampered furry babies, the book took umbrage at the time it took me to systematically work through my TBR to …

Char Dham (The Sacred Shrines) by Shweta Mathur Lall (published by Rupa) is a book that will stay with me for a long time. It blew my mind, exactly like a racy thriller fiction would, even though this book is non-fiction. In Hinduism, the Char Dham yatra or pilgrimage is …

Enter at Your Own Risk by Anirban Bhattacharya is an interesting collection of six horror stories rooted in India’s most infamous haunted locations. What makes this book stand out is not just its chilling subject, but the inventive way in which the author enhances the reading experience. The prose is …

Pages – 273 Language – English Purchase link – https://amzn.in/d/02BKiyMp format – available in paperback and kindle format Publisher – Readomania About the book – Burps, Chirps & Cat-astrophic Turfs is the hilariously heart-tangled tale of Mrs Choudhary—a meddling midlife maven with a PhD in chaos, a minor in melodrama, and …

Pages – 129 Language – English Purchase link – https://amzn.in/d/25Ch7sW format – available in paperback and kindle format Publisher – Ukiyoto Publishing About the book – Somewhere between the ache of longing and the hush of acceptance, between what lingers and what lets go, lives a space where the shadow touches …

The panic that sets in the moment we step out for a journey is rarely about the journey itself. Or its uncertain outcome. It is about absence…our own. It is about ceding control because of our absence. We like to believe we are merely occupants of our homes (and I am …

You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas is a brooding psychological thriller. At its core lies a deceptively simple question: can we ever truly know another person, or even ourselves? Set against the gritty, unvarnished backdrop of Delhi, the novel dives into a world where appearances deceive and morality blurs. …