Unveiling the eerie undercurrents of ordinary lives in Bengal through thirteen unsettling stories
A coming-of-age story in blank verse, 'Spotless' shines a light on body image, friendship, and finding beauty in imperfection – just like the moon
BY Anjana Basu 28 February 2026
Where Above Average was aware of the ways in which memory fixes itself in time, Unknown City is more interested in how memory frays, distorts and occasionally disappears altogether
BY Anjana Basu 21 February 2026
A powerful short story collection exploring Assam’s history, tea gardens, folklore, feminism, and belonging from the 1850s to 2000s. A quiet yet incisive portrait of Northeast India’s resilience and loss
BY Anjana Basu 15 February 2026
Explore Harper Lee's newly discovered short stories and essays in The Land of Sweet Forever (2025). This posthumous collection shows her early writing, themes of social approval, segregation, and connections to To Kill a Mockingbird
BY Anjana Basu 8 February 2026
What holds the novel together is the author's commitment to restoring almost forgotten women to history.
BY Anjana Basu 17 January 2026
Milan Vohra's stories veer from tough situations to tender ones with a Chicken Soup for the Soul feel to them.
BY Anjana Basu 10 January 2026
A wide-ranging essay collection that maps Indian theatre history, politics, pedagogy and intercultural exchange.
BY Anjana Basu 21 December 2025
The book meticulously brings together archival history, in-depth performance analysis, candid oral histories and auto-ethnography.
BY Anjana Basu 20 December 2025
In "The Court of the Dead", Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro rework Greek myth through a story of monsters as outsiders, inclusion, and the struggle for belonging in modern fantasy.
BY Anjana Basu 14 December 2025
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