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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of India’s Money Heist: The Chelembra Bank Robbery by Anirban Bhattacharyya

When you think of crime stories, your mind might immediately drift to gritty fictional thrillers or TV shows where detectives solve cases with cinematic flair. But India’s Money Heist: The Chelembra Bank Robbery by Anirban Bhattacharyya occupies a fascinating space that is both rooted in reality and as riveting as fiction. Its genre is true crime, a category that celebrates fact-based storytelling...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy by Yasser Usman

The first time I saw Sanjay Dutt on screen, I remember thinking: this man is either acting or simply being himself. The swagger felt too authentic, the rough edges too raw. Years later, holding Yasser Usman’s Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy in my hands, I realized that maybe the reel and real had always bled into each other in Sanju Baba’s life. And isn’t that the very r...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Khullam Khulla by Rishi Kapoor

I opened Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored expecting a polite Bollywood memoir — the kind that tiptoes around gossip and glosses over the messy bits. Instead, I found myself sitting beside Chintu, a glass of whiskey in hand, in a smoky green room, watching him spill every story, every feud, every heartbreak, in real time. It was intimate, electric, and occasionally, downright scandalous. Thi...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Sach Kahun Toh by Neena Gupta

I’ll tell you where I was when I opened Sach Kahun Toh. Midnight. Rain outside. My bedside lamp spilling that warm amber glow across the pages. And almost instantly, it felt less like I was reading a book and more like Neena Gupta herself had pulled up a chair across the table and begun to talk. Not with the guardedness of a celebrity, not with the practiced diplomacy of someone used to cameras, b...

Darktown

Gritty, fast paced, and pulling no punches with the darkness that envelopes the context. Good read.

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Secret of Secrets by Robert Brown

I didn’t expect to find myself sprinting through the cobbled streets of Prague at midnight, heart hammering, clutching a book that seemed to pulse with its own life, but there I was.Dan Brown is back, after nearly a decade, and he’s brought Robert Langdon with him — the Harvard symbologist whose wardrobe is as memorable as his mind: loafers, turtlenecks, and a Mickey Mouse watch, a little like a l...

Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of The Whispering Delulu by Dr. Sohil Makwana

There’s a certain thrill in picking up a book by an author you already trust to mess with your mind — in the best way possible. For me, that’s what happened when I cracked open The Whispering Delulu by Dr. Sohil Makwana. I’d read his Murdrum duology and The Sleepwalker’s Lullaby before, so I knew to expect sharp twists and a mind-bending premise. What I didn’t expect was just how strange, layered,...

Tempest 2025

Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of An Unexpected Detour by Pallabi Ghoshal

Imagine booking a honeymoon on a postcard-perfect island — the kind of place where the sky seems freshly painted and the sea whispers promises of forever. Now imagine that same paradise turning into a stage for your worst nightmare. That’s exactly the slippery turn Pallabi Ghoshal takes us on in An Unexpected Detour, and let me tell you, once I started, there was no “just one more chapter.” Sleep ...

Bass, Rahman bass.

You like something Rahman has created. Let me re-phrase it - some piece of music that Rahman has magically woven is amongst, if not your outright favorite pieces of music ever created. There are many many reasons for this, most of which I do not understand clearly. But the one I do, is found in the lower ranges of the frequency range. The bass. The thump. Think back to a time before Rahman - all ...