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A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 26 February
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Here’s something about me: I love philosophy, and believe firmly that it needs to be made more mainstream. Philosophy helps root your..
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Howling at the Moon by Darshana Suresh

  • by Rishika Aggarwal
  • 24 February
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I’ve been following Darshana on Tumblr for a while now, and I’ve been waiting to read Howling at the Moon since it..
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Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 24 February
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The Test For a long time, I wanted to right about the streets of my childhood, our games of summer and rains,..
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 19 February
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I’ll be honest — I am not (yet) a science fiction aficionado. I have a very limited, can-count-on-my-fingers number of the genre, some short..
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Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 7 February
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Writers and authors, storytellers and what Neil Gaiman calls, ‘those trade in fictions’, I believe, have a hidden agenda to glorify, not..
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Tales from the Border by Blackwood

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 7 February
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Last month, I acquired a membership to a library in Mumbai; an old, dilapidated building that has volumes and volumes of old..
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Fatal Affair by Marie Force

  • by Rishika Aggarwal
  • 6 February
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*claps hands* So, romance novels are a guilty pleasure of mine – they’re the perfect way to cleanse you palate after finishing..
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