Literature

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The Phone Is Ringing. But Nobody Plugged It In — The Velvet Hotline by Arsh Verma, Read & Reviewed b

I have always found something slightly unsettling about telephone calls. Maybe it is because you cannot see the person on the other end. You hear a voice, but you don't know what the face behind it looks like. You cannot tell whether someone is speaking calmly because they are genuinely calm, or because they are trying very hard not to fall apart. Sometimes there is a pause. Sometimes there is sil...

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The Phone Is Ringing. But Nobody Plugged It In — The Velvet Hotline by Arsh Verma, Read & Reviewed b
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I Opened What the What?! by Nipun Jain & Mohit Mamoria for the Trivia, but Found Myself Thinking Abo

I have a confession.I like books that make me stop reading.Not because they are boring.Quite the opposite.Because sometimes I am reading a page and suddenly I have to look up and say,“Wait. What?”That happened quite a few times with What the What?!And, honestly, that is probably the best possible reaction to this book.I came to it expecting a book of strange facts, trivia and questions.I got that....

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I Opened What the What?! by Nipun Jain & Mohit Mamoria for the Trivia, but Found Myself Thinking Abo
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Can We Ever Escape the Identity We Inherit? — Am I a Dalit? by Vijhay Sundar K.G., read and reviewed

There are some questions that are asked because we don’t know the answer.And then there are questions we ask because we are afraid of what the answer might mean.Am I a Dalit? belongs to the second category.Vijhay Sundar K.G.’s novel begins in a world where caste is not an abstract idea discussed in textbooks. It is present in families, relationships, social behaviour, humiliation and the choices p...

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Can We Ever Escape the Identity We Inherit? — Am I a Dalit? by Vijhay Sundar K.G., read and reviewed
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Parashurama Before the Axe, the Rage and the Legend — Kevin Missal’s The Axe of Rudra, Reviewed by S

There is a strange problem with legends.We meet them too late.By the time we hear their names, the transformation has already happened. The doubts have disappeared. The mistakes have been edited out. The person has become a symbol.Parashurama is one of those figures.We know the axe.We know the anger.We know the warrior.But who was Rama before he became Parashurama?That is where Kevin Missal’s Para...

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Parashurama Before the Axe, the Rage and the Legend — Kevin Missal’s The Axe of Rudra, Reviewed by S
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Dr Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar Wants Us to Question Reality. Sameer Gudhate Takes a Closer Look at The

There is something deeply comforting about certainty.We like knowing why things happen. We like clear answers, predictable outcomes and explanations that neatly close the conversation. We live in a time that makes this even easier. Algorithms predict what we might want next. Search engines find answers in seconds. Experts speak with enormous confidence. Even social media has turned complicated que...

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Dr Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar Wants Us to Question Reality. Sameer Gudhate Takes a Closer Look at The
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Messi, Greatness and the Stories We Tell About Success — Messi Mania by Luis Miguel Echegaray, revie

We know how the story ends.That is perhaps the biggest problem with reading about someone like Lionel Messi.We already know the boy from Rosario becomes one of the greatest footballers the world has ever seen. We know about Barcelona. We know the goals, the trophies, the records. We know the heartbreak with Argentina. We know the World Cup finally arrives. We know Paris, and then Miami. We know th...

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Messi, Greatness and the Stories We Tell About Success — Messi Mania by Luis Miguel Echegaray, revie
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When Love Has Secrets, How Well Do We Really Know the Person We Love? — The Almost Perfect Wife by A

We often imagine that the most dangerous secrets in a relationship are the ones someone tells us.Perhaps they aren’t.Perhaps the more dangerous ones are the secrets someone successfully keeps from us.That thought stayed with me while reading Anubha Gupta’s The Almost Perfect Wife. Because beneath the murder mystery, the twists and the ancestral house in Mashobra, this is really a story about somet...

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When Love Has Secrets, How Well Do We Really Know the Person We Love? — The Almost Perfect Wife by A
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Parvati by Samar — Sameer Gudhate Asks: Do We Really Know Parvati?

We have grown up with certain identities so familiar that we rarely stop to examine them.Parvati is Shiva’s wife.She is Ganesha’s mother.She is the embodiment of Shakti.She is Durga. She is Kali.We know these names. We know the stories.But do we know Parvati?That question stayed with me while reading Parvati by Samar.Because the interesting thing about this novel is not that it tells us another st...

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Parvati by Samar — Sameer Gudhate Asks: Do We Really Know Parvati?
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If Truth Be Told by Om Swami — Sameer Gudhate Asks: What Are We Really Searching For?

What would you be willing to give up if you genuinely believed that the one thing you were searching for could not be found in the life you were already living?That question stayed with me while reading If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir by Om Swami.Because the extraordinary thing about this memoir is not simply that a successful businessman became a monk.It is that the person who had seemingly acq...

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If Truth Be Told by Om Swami — Sameer Gudhate Asks: What Are We Really Searching For?
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Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG — Sameer Gudhate on Love, Loss and the Human Cost of Partition

When a Border Separates Two People, What Exactly Does It Fail to Separate?Some love stories are about two people trying to find each other.Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG is about something more difficult: two people trying to remain connected when history has decided they belong on opposite sides of a border.That distinction stayed with me.Because we often talk about Partition through numbers...

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Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG — Sameer Gudhate on Love, Loss and the Human Cost of Partition

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