Lana Sabarwal debuts with a psychological murder mystery: Maya, Dead and Dreaming, set in the 1950s US

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The most striking element of Maya, Dead and Dreaming greets readers before they even turn the first page. The cover art, featuring a woman’s face half-illuminated and half-swallowed by darkness, perfectly encapsulates the novel’s central tension between truth and concealment. This visual metaphor extends throughout Sabarwal’s narrative, where characters exist in similar states of partial revelation.…


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Rita Chhetri’s Boy with the Red Balloon, an emphatic entrance on the horizon of Indian English Fiction

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In Boy with the Red Balloon, Rita Chhetri delivers a profoundly moving narrative that traverses the fragile terrain of memory, love, childhood trauma, and human resilience. What is particularly commendable is how Chhetri—better known for her distinguished academic achievements in physics and her contributions to the nuclear industry—exhibits an intuitive command over the emotional and…


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The Curious Case of Amitav Ghosh: Why Literary Recognition Eludes India’s Most Distinguished Storyteller

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Amitav Ghosh stands as one of the most formidable literary voices of our time—a writer whose novels are as expansive in their historical vision as they are meticulous in their craft. His works, from The Shadow Lines to the Ibis trilogy, do not merely tell stories; they excavate buried histories, interrogate colonialism’s lingering shadows, and map the interconnectedness…


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