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A retelling of Sita s life but a take not taken
I was won over by the author in the very opening when she tells us that while Sri Ram was a God Sita too was a God. Both cannot be measured by each other’s yardsticks since both represented a larger cause. This clarity of attitude sets the emotional tone for this rendition. It remains rock…
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One of my best reads of 2025, set in Kolkata
read the novels that envision cataclysm in sweeping, cinematic strokes, and I read Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief, in which the world flickers out quietly, intimately, in a room at a time. Set in a near-future Kolkata battered by famine, rising heat, and the slow violence of climate failure, this story never deals…
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A nice poetry collection
The Weeds That Grow in Cemeteries by Nirmal Ghosh is an array of quiet registers; it trusts the reader to sit inside its silences rather than reach for flourish or explanation. The poems move with an unhurried steadiness, observing the small, insistent things that endure at life’s margins-the weed growing through cracked stone, the body…
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A quiet mystery set in the hills
Trouble in the Tea GardensMitali Perkins places her story amidst the steep, mist-wrapped slopes of Darjeeling, yet it is through the interior landscape-a young girl learning to hold her ground-that Trouble in the Tea Gardens deeply mines its rich terrain. Sona, twelve years old, Nepali by heritage, fiercely observant by nature, lives a life stitched…
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A macabre yet evocative book
There is a hitch, a macabre that pulls you in to Slashed Beauties that has little to do with either shock value or spectacle, but rather with a certain curiosity that ensues from its premise, with the presence of Anatomical Venuses that sends a certain chill down your spine. This has all the makings of…
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A deep topic dealt with maturity
A child learns arithmetic before he learns heartbreak. One, two, three numbers fall into place neatly. But emotions don’t. In Three Is Not Equal to One, Roopal Kewalya @roopal_kewalya takes this simple truth and turns it into a deeply moving story about a young boy trying to understand why the maths of family suddenly no…
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The legend and Lattes, legend continues.
In Brigands & Breadknives, Travis Baldree gently shifts the center of his cozy fantasy world from the comfort of fixed spaces into the quiet uncertainties of the open road. Continuing the emotional lineage begun in Legends & Lattes and Bookshops & Bonedust, this book follows Fern, the rattkin bookseller who once truly felt she had…
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The technological advancement of India post independence summed up for children
Instead of organizing the post-Independence story of India around cabinets and constitutions, Uncoded reorients it around scientific institutions, technological ambition, and infrastructural imagination.The narrative is divided into two parts, across ten concise sections each devoted to a distinct current of progress, industry, agriculture, communication, space, computing, healthcare, and digital turn. The design language will feel…
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an anonymous note triggers the story!
Storybook Ending begins with a gentle, almost accidental spark: April, a quiet woman working remotely and often slipping through the world unnoticed, leaves an anonymous note inside a book at her local bookstore. She writes it for Westley, the bookseller she admires from a distance but never finds the courage to approach. That small gesture…
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Absu লিট ফেস্ট ২০২৫
“আপনারা হয়তো ভাবছেনআমি ABSU Lit Fest 2025 নিয়ে এত কথা বলছি কেন।কারণ সহজ… এই উৎসবটার সঙ্গে আমার একটা পুরনো, নরম সম্পর্ক আছে। ২০১৯ সালে আমি যখন বই-ব্লগিং শুরু করছিলাম, তখন খুব কম মানুষই আমাকে চিনত। ঠিক সেই সময় ABSU Lit Fest প্রথম আমাকে মঞ্চে ডেকেছিল। কোনো বাড়তি কিছু নয়—শুধু একটা সুযোগ।কিন্তু সেই সুযোগটাই আমার জন্য…
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