Malvika Singh
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The carton arrived the way good things always do here in Mumbai: sweating slightly, a little battered at the corners, smelling of somewhere else. I knew what it was before I opened it. You always know. There is a particular hush that falls over a house when the year’s first mangoes from your own farm…
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We moved to Mumbai at the beginning of monsoon season. The city arrived in my life already drenched — and slowly, through rain and books and Little Miss’s deeply held opinions about puddles, it is beginning to feel like home.
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Three monsoon moods, three books, three cups of chai. A reading pairing post for Mumbai’s grey, rainy afternoons.
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Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a love story that refuses to call itself one – a novel about games, grief, creativity, and the people we can’t live without.
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There is a particular kind of friendship that only the 70s and 80s seem to have produced. The kind built entirely on proximity, on shared afternoons with no agenda, before phones made distance feel optional. The Song of Our Bond by Pinki Bakshi is a tribute to exactly that kind of friendship
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Some Father’s Days, I find myself standing in two places at once. I’m the daughter who grew up wrapped in a love that never asked for anything back — and I’m the mother now, watching my own Little Miss look up at her father the way I once looked up at mine. This year, that…
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Reading Heathcliff’s revenge as a two-generation leveraged buyout, not a love story.
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The summer holidays always end the same way for us – too fast, and with a small human who has very strong opinions about waking up early again. School reopened this week, and our mornings are back to their familiar shape: my alarm going off, a gentle (and then less gentle) round of nudging, and…
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Halfway through 2026 and eighteen books deep — a mid-year reading check-in from a rainy Mumbai, spanning Japanese comfort fiction, classic mysteries, Indian voices, and one banker’s risk-reader lens.
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Sensory-friendly, affordable indoor activities for special needs children this monsoon — calming corners, fine motor crafts, and rainy-day play that’s actually been tested at home.