Book Review: A House of Rain and Snow by Srijato Bandopadhyay
Neha Kirpal reviews Srijato Bandopadhyay’s A House of Rain and Snow (Published by Penguin Random House India, 2023), translated from Bengali by Maharghya Chakraborty Srijato’s latest novel, A House of Rain and Snow, is his most autobiographical work to date. The journey of a young poet is lyrically narrated and beautifully written and makes for […]
Turning Civilisation on its Head: Mansoor Khan’s Debut Novel ‘One’
Neha Kirpal reviews Mansoor Khan’s debut novel One (Published by Harper Collins, 2023) Bollywood film director and producer Mansoor Hussain Khan recently released his debut novel One: The Story of the Ultimate Myth. The book starts simply with two strangers meeting by chance in a park: Sonal, a 37-year-old former sociology professor and firebrand activist […]
Aaraampur Chronicles: The Simple Life in a Small Hill Town
Neha Kirpal reviews Prof. Dhruv Nath’s Welcome to Aaraampur calling it a charming and amusing debut novel of angel investor, mentor, author, and director of the Lead Angels Network Welcome to Aaraampur is the charming and amusing debut novel of angel investor, mentor, author, and director of the Lead Angels Network, Prof. Dhruv Nath. The […]
A thriller book packed with royals, 1 murder and many disappearances
Mumbai based award-winning writer, ex-journalist and advertising professional Richa S Mukherjee’s latest novel The Curse of Kuldhara is a humorous thriller book that is soon to be a major web series. The story begins in the small town of Gwaltoli in Uttar Pradesh, located about five kilometres from Kanpur. Here, we meet our protagonist, Prachand […]
Put yourself into the world you create: Veer Devgan
A fourth-generation Army brat, 16-year-old Veer Devgan changed seven schools in his childhood before finally finding his roots at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, where he is a student of Class XII. His debut book, What to Do if There is a Murderer in Your Family?, is inspired by his love for soap operas and family […]
Rare book on Shimla history; this illustrated guidebook is a delight to read
Simla in Ragtime, a rare book on Shimla history should not be confused with Ragtime in Simla by Barabara Cleverley’s book. Justice Deepak Gupta, a Simla man through and through, served as judge of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh for more than eight years, and had one of the finest collections of rare books […]
Secrets, Identity, and a Coffee Estate: A Place Called Home by Preeti Shenoy
The latest novel from bestselling author Preeti Shenoy is a story about secrets, family and finding oneself. “There are two kinds of secrets. Some we wear like an invisible cloak, which we don when we need to be shielded from the judging eyes of society, and discard over a few drinks in the company of […]
Charming debut for the ageless middle-class India by Aravind Jayan
The debut novel of Bangalore-based writer Aravind Jayan, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, is a hilariously narrated, small-town family drama. On the day that a family from middle-class India brings home a brand new white Honda Civic, they discover that a filmed video of their eldest son, twenty-two-year-old Sreenath, and his girlfriend of four years, Anita, […]
Indira Gandhi, Bibliophiles and Love: Once Upon a Curfew
In 1974, twenty-three-year-old Indu (named after India’s then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi), inherits a sprawling four-bedroom flat from her grandmother. Given that the house is filled with more than a thousand books that her grandparents had lovingly collected over the years, Indu decides to turn it into a local library exclusively for women—a dedicated space […]
Avinuo Kire gives us a peek into Naga Life and Culture in her latest book
The latest book by Kohima-based writer and teacher, Avinuo Kire, Where the Cobbled Path Leads (Penguin, 2022) is a folk fantasy novel. Eleven-year-old Vime is struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother as well as her father’s impending marriage to another woman. She frequently visits a cobbled path close to her […]