“Where have you been all these years, Sudha?” Paati jerks awake when my fingers graze her warm forehead. I know her mumblings are…
Djamila Morani’s The Djinn’s Apple is a captivating YA historical mystery novella that reminded me of Arabian Nights. Set in 8th century Baghdad, commonly…
How often do you judge a novel by its cover or title? Well, I have done it quite often and might continue to…
Decades ago, when I started working, one of the sweet splurges from my first salary was Amitav Ghosh’s masterpiece, Glass Palace. An excellent…
Subbulakshmi had just accepted the fact that she was dead, but with this strange interrogation her head started reeling and her lifeless form…
A Phobic Story I wish I was an author, but sadly it’s just a fanciful thought… cos I have graphophobia, a phobia of…
February is the month of love, right? But guess what I did instead of cozying up with a romantic book? I dove into…
I read Etaf Rum’s debut novel, A Woman Is No Man, two years ago, and despite a few shortcomings, I found it captivating.…
Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Chha Mana Aatha Guntha was first published in Odiya in 1897. Six and a Third Acres, translated in English…
The Travelling Cat Chronicles has been languishing on my ever-growing TBR for ages now. Every book lover’s woe, isn’t it? Its existence might…