Some books arrive when we least expect them, in moments of quiet fatigue in internet’s one of the rabbit holes, YouTube’s glimmering corners led me to Haley Pham, whose irrepressible energy while speaking about Emily Henry’s books was almost cinematic in its intensity. Her passion felt like a dare. Soon enough, I found myself ordering … Read more
Burnt Sugar’s Bitter Alchemy In the midst of memory and the butchery of betrayal, Avni Doshi’s debut unveils a mother’s disquiet and a daughter’s fractured inheritance In the lilac haze of a Pune morning, Antara stands before a canvas that refuses her brush strokes. She breathes in the oppressive quiet and wonders whether the echoes … Read more
In Spies, Lies and Allies, Kavitha Rao breathes life into Virendranath Chattopadhyaya and M. N. Roy’s forgotten odysseys. Kavitha Rao’s fast paced prose carries us from Kolkata’s humid dawns to clandestine cafés in Paris. We read about coded letters slipped under hotel doors, whispers in autumnal Moscow, footsteps on rain-slicked London streets. From the first … Read more
In this Lady Doctors review I felt a fire ignite in my veins. Here were women who would not be silenced. Here were women who claimed stethoscopes when society tried to deny them breath. Each page pulses with their defiance. Each chapter demands that we acknowledge their right to heal bodies, minds and nations alike. … Read more
A literary journey across a sunburned land where absurdity and beauty collide. Bill Bryson and the Art of Wonder There are few writers who can turn absentminded curiosity into an art form. Bill Bryson belongs to that rare tribe. His sentences are like river stones: smooth, flowy, funny, yet quietly weighted with a genuine reverence … Read more
A Short History of Nearly Everything In Bill Bryson’s Popular Book Turns the Lab Notebook into a Lantern of Wonder 1. a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-review opens the cosmic attic A Short History of Nearly Everything begins, not with thunder, but with a gentle knock on the door of the universe. Bill Bryson wonders how “something” arrived from “absolutely … Read more
Chronicles of a Matrilineal Kingdom’s Last, Long Echo.. There are books one reads, and there are books one walks into, like rain-soaked courtyards where memory clings to the squared stones. It was not a railway waiting room that first introduced me to Manu S. Pillai. It was a room lined with books. A cup of … Read more
When a Pen Becomes a Sword How this Yellowface review Slashes Through the Veil of Stories, Identity, and the Silent Hunger to Belong There are books that whisper. There are books that weep. And then there are books like R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, a novel that carves through the soft flesh of the literary world with a … Read more
The Quiet Art of Becoming: A Deep Dive into Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation How a baseball game, a stubborn dream, and a mind full of “automatic dwarves” built a literary world unlike any other. There are writers who arrive with the noise of a brass band, pages flapping like banners in the wind.And … Read more
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan – A Poetic Journey Through Memory How my Birthday Gift Opened the Door to the Mind of a Legend Introduction: A Gift Wrapped in Silence On my birthday last year, a dear friend, a music aficionado whose knowledge could rival any seasoned producer, placed a carefully wrapped gift into … Read more