Nisarg Patel — Excerpt: Considering how deeply epics shape our day-to-day life, it comes as somewhat of a surprise to realize how narrow and limited our knowledge is when it comes to epic stories.
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‘Booked’ and ‘Java by my side’
Rohit Karir — Excerpt: My heart skips a beat when a paragraph grabs hold of me, and the search ends.
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Under the Same Moon: Seeing Ourselves in Vibha Batra’s Spotless
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Spotless isn’t about pain. It’s a coming-of-age story, a journal, and a cosmic poem all at once. The narrator’s voice is sharp, self-aware, and funny when you least expect it. You can taste it and feel the muck.
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Echoes of Memory, Nature and Rebirth in Santosh Bakaya’s At Thirty Minutes Past One
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Santosh Bakaya’s poetic mini-epic is an evocation of the dreamscape bathed in lost garden scents and memory whorls, and the rhythms of a haunted, healing world.
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Farrukh Dhondy’s Rumi: Bridging Mysticism, Music, and Modernity
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: They are a musical, rhythmic, and symbolic world, and every metaphor has a spiritual, cultural, and cosmic meaning. Translating Rumi might either dampen the original’s exuberant essence or sever its strong ties to Persian and Sufi culture.