Crime

Posts from the crime category.

Sameer Gudhate

Sameer Gudhate on Desi Crime: You Don’t Just Read These Stories… You Realize How Close They Are

There’s a certain discomfort that doesn’t leave you when you close a true crime book.Not fear.Not shock.Something quieter.Almost like you’ve just walked past a crime scene long after the crowd has disappeared… but the silence is still holding on to something.That’s the space this book pulled me into.Desi Crime: 20 True Stories of Killers, Kidnappers and Other Sinister Criminals by Aishwarya Singh ...

Sameer Gudhate on Desi Crime: You Don’t Just Read These Stories… You Realize How Close They Are
Sameer Gudhate

Exploring the Depths of City Without Stars by Tim Baker A Review by Sameer Gudhate

There are cities that glitter at night. And then there are cities that swallow light whole.Reading City Without Stars by Tim Baker felt like walking through one of the latter — a place where hope doesn’t disappear dramatically; it erodes quietly, layer by layer, until even the sky feels complicit.Set in Ciudad Real, a fictionalised border town echoing the tragedies of Juárez, the novel drops us in...

Exploring the Depths of City Without Stars by Tim Baker A Review by Sameer Gudhate