Nimish Dass — Excerpt: Special Ops is a global Indian web series in the true sense and should be on the bucket list of those—especially non-Indians—interested in Indian intelligence, state politics, and foreign affairs.
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Gulkand: A Bloom of Love, Memory, and Matriarchy
Namrata — Excerpt: On the surface, it is a light-hearted family drama. Beneath that, it is a quiet revolution in storytelling, one that centres women not only as emotional anchors but as agents of clarity, dignity, and transformation.
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Microscopes, Murmurs, and Mystics — Reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome
Anindita Basak — Excerpt: Through its shifting perspectives, the novel conjures an eerie, hypnotic atmosphere — hot monsoon nights, dank hospital halls, the colonial bureaucracy, and whispered conspiracy, hovering between scientific rationality and something more primal.
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The WhatsApp Groups Need to Stop
Zoé Mahfouz — Excerpt: “How come you’re not on the WhatsApp group? Let me add you!” That’s when the nightmare began.
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Finding Ginger
Barnali Ray Shukla — Excerpt: Zorro the cat, aka Daggu Bhaiya, boasts of a Persian lineage, crossed with a less-celebrated parent. But this bundle of wonder is now a Mumbaikar.