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  • Book Review: Forget Me Not

    Book Review: Forget Me Not

    Avanthika wakes with retrograde amnesia and has to rebuild her life out of other people’s testimony. An identity with no supporting evidence. A psychological thriller read through a risk lens.

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  • Mandu: The Love Story a Fort Still Remembers

    Mandu: The Love Story a Fort Still Remembers

    A Sultan falls in love with a commoner, and the kingdom pays for it. Malathi Ramachandran’s Mandu is the story of Roopmati and Baz Bahadur, set in sixteenth-century Malwa — historical fiction with a beating heart. 5/5.

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  • Book Review: Songs of a Barber’s Tuesday – Full Full Girl by Abhimanyu Jamwal

    A man wakes up one morning as a woman, keeping only his memories, and tells his life story to a barber — in verse. My Risk-Reader take on Full Full Girl by Abhimanyu Jamwal.

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  • Where the Sacred Begins: On Tomichan Matheikal’s The Simplest Guide to Religion

    I believe there is something above us that steadies you, that shows you the path when you cannot see two steps ahead. What I have never managed is the observance. Tomichan Matheikal’s The Simplest Guide to Religion showed me where all that grammar came from — and separated the reaching from the rulebook.

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  • Book Review: Dance Like a Trans – From Jogathi to Padma Shri

    A trans folk artist who staked everything: name, family, certainty and danced her way from a Bellary town to the Padma Shri. My review of Raghav Chinivar’s poignant first and last book.

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  • Reading The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

    I was twenty when I first opened The Glass Palace, and I am not sure I have ever entirely closed it since. There is a particular way of reading that belongs only to youth.

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  • Book Review: The Song of Our Bond

    Book Review: The Song of Our Bond

    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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  • Book Review: Buildit – Building Blinkit in an Evolving India

    We all know Blinkit. I always feel that if you need something urgently, just BLINK and IT will be here. When we moved to Mumbai almost two years ago, I was not very familiar with this “ten-minute” livery system. For me, ordering groceries online meant waiting for it to reach to you. So, if i…

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  • N: Narrators and Trust

    When we start reading a story, we read it from the perspective of the narrator. Whether it’s a third person or first person narrator, the story is bound by them. It is they who introduce the characters, tell us about everything that’s going on and keep our interest to the maximum. There are of course…

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  • Book Review: All Roads Lead Here

    I love magic. In real life and in books, I keep looking for magic both literal and figurative. So when I got the chance to read All Roads Lead Here, I jumped with joy (not literally though because jumping in the gym is already too much for me). Suchita Agarwal’s book revolves around Parth, Saurabh,…

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