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Adam&Eve: Jeffery Archer
Adam & Eve was a comfort read. Familiar and predictable, but thoroughly comforting. Perhaps the best way to bid farewell to Jeffrey Archer. It wasn't his best, though. There were shades of almost every other book he has written: As the Crow Flies (oh, how I love that book), Kane and Abel, and most o...
Posted on 10 November 2026 | 9:23 am
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Room For One More
First published in Everyday Fiction (Inspired by a real story) It is somewhere in North India, the kind of place with endless dusty roads that lead to villages with no name. Sleepy pockets that are hours from anywhere. Now it's full of uniformed men, and machines digging, lifting, dragging. No one s...
Posted on 20 June 2026 | 6:17 am
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The Guardian at the Library Door
There's a huge debate right now around that Guardian article claiming Indians don't read for pleasure. I don't know about statistics, but I didn't think there was anything wrong in both the article or the headline. Litfests are performative. There's nothing wrong in that, but still, that article did...
Posted on 17 February 2026 | 9:01 am
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