A quirky murder mystery steeped in Bengali nostalgia, The Scratch and Sniff Chronicles follows sommelier-sleuth Ollie as she sniffs out secrets in a crumbling ancestral home.
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A cross-genre tale of resilience and reform, where “bad girls” of colonial Bengal defied tradition to claim education and identity.
BY Anjana Basu 7 September 2025
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Anjana Basu reviews The Thief of Taxila – A Silk Road Mystery, a novel by Veena Muthuraman
BY Anjana Basu 30 August 2025
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Manjul Bajaj’s Once Upon a Summer is a tender rebellion against race, caste, and colonial rule—told through the lens of love.
BY Anjana Basu 3 August 2025
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Strange moving lights, the churail’s scream from a deserted village, unseen terror ... Jim Corbett did not encounter man-eaters alone; he also had a faceoff with ghosts and supernatural powers
BY Anjana Basu 2 August 2025
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A new historical novel revisits the dramatic life and legacy of Marthanda Varma, the king who defeated the Dutch and transformed his kingdom through war, reform, and strategy.
BY Anjana Basu 27 July 2025
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The story makes a quiet but vital point: when young people grow up believing their feelings are “abnormal,” the cost is high—anxiety, isolation, shame.
BY Anjana Basu 20 July 2025
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Lucidly written and an easy read Wajid’s memoir tells the story of coming to terms with loss in simple terms surrounded by her own awareness or worries regarding the reactions of family and society.
BY Anjana Basu 19 July 2025
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For the most part, unlike Heart Lamp, which the style, the underlying sorrow and the narrow canvas recall, the stories lack the sophistication of urban undercurrents- life revolves around festivals and the cycles of the seasons, which directly impact livelihoods.
BY Anjana Basu 5 July 2025
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Translating Rituparno Ghosh: star Bengali writer, Ram Ray’s favourite and monarch of all he surveyed from silver betel boxes to books
BY Anjana Basu 2 June 2025
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