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Sameer Gudhate on Why Claim by Aarti V Raman Feels Less Like a Romance and More Like an Emotional Co

There are romance novels that feel manufactured entirely out of fantasy, and then there are books like Claim that understand something darker about attraction — how sometimes two wounded people don’t fall in love gently. They collide like storms over a city already carrying too much damage beneath its skyline.That was the feeling I carried through most of this book.Not softness. Collision.I had wa...

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Sameer Gudhate Explores the Razor-Sharp Mind of Detective Victor Chatterjee

Some books entertain you for a few hours.Some books make you feel as if you’re walking through dimly lit lanes at midnight, watching shadows move before the detective notices them.Deadly Clues: Detective Victor Rises by Amritendu Mukherjee gave me exactly that feeling.A few nights ago, I had planned to read “just one story” before sleeping. That familiar lie every reader tells themselves. But some...

The Weight of Unfinished Investigations in Murder at the Palace: A Modern Detective Review by Sameer

There are books that open like a locked door being gently pushed, and there are books that open like a gunshot in a silent hall. This one begins somewhere in between.A celebrated detective is found murdered while still mid-investigation, and that single rupture in the system is enough to tilt the world of “Murder at the Palace: A Chanaksha Rajpoot Mystery” into motion. His assistant, Chanaksha Raj...

Sameer Gudhate on a Thriller That Doesn’t Just Chase Killers — It Understands Them

There are books you read.And then there are books that make you forget you’re reading — because your body reacts faster than your mind can process.Somewhere around the middle of The Girl in the Glass Case, I realized I hadn’t moved for a while. Not even to adjust my posture. Just eyes locked. Breath slightly uneven. That quiet, involuntary tension you don’t notice until it’s already taken over.I h...

Not the End of the World — But the Beginning of Loneliness: Sameer Gudhate Reviews At the End of the

There is a particular kind of silence that does not feel empty. It feels occupied. While reading At the End of the World by Priyanshu Sunil Sinha, I kept returning to that feeling — the sense that absence itself can become a presence you walk beside.This is not the loud end of the world we are used to seeing. No collapsing skylines. No heroic last stands. Instead, the novel opens like an abandoned...

Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Salman Khan: The Sultan of Bollywood by Mohar Basu

There was a time when going to the theatre wasn’t just about watching a film — it was about showing up for a feeling. Whistles, claps, that collective surge of energy when the hero makes his entry. For many of us, that feeling had a name: Salman Khan.Reading Salman Khan: The Sultan of Bollywood by Mohar Basu feels a bit like sitting in the middle of that theatre again — except this time, the spotl...

Exploring Cinematic Boundaries: A Review of Bollywood, Hollywood and the Future of World Cinema

There are some books you read like a film. And then there are books you read like a conversation that refuses to end even after the lights come on. Bollywood, Hollywood and the Future of World Cinema by Rajesh Talwar belongs to the second category for me — less popcorn, more post-screening debate.I have journeyed through many of Talwar’s works before — from his fiction that dissects ideology and i...

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The other day I was watching a new series ‘Space Gen’. Got to know about it due to its viral vedio of its promotional event, how the chair was blocking the main poster. Reminding us how the low budget movies get promoted when compared to the huge budget films. Planned to see it just for the main lead actor and it being produced from TVF and also certainly due to its theam on Chandrayaan. You can...

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