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#Book Review : The Chowpatty Cooking Club by Lubaina Bandukwala

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The Chowpatty Cooking Club is a thoughtful and quietly powerful middle-grade novel published by Duckbill Books, a publisher known for curating meaningful and well-researched children’s literature. The book is part of Duckbill’s special collection, Freedom Song, which brings alive the Indian freedom struggle through the voices and experiences of children across the country. Set in Bombay in 1942, during the Quit India Movement, the story is narrated through diary entries written by Sakina, a young girl who desperately wants to contribute to the fight for independence. Along with her friends Zenobia and Mehul, Sakina lives in a city buzzing with …

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#Book Review: Abscond by Abraham Verghese

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Abscond by Abraham Verghese is a poignant short story that explores loss, grief, shifting relationship dynamics, and the search for identity in the aftermath of death. In a brief yet powerful narrative, Verghese captures how a single loss can fracture a family and force its members to confront themselves in unexpected ways. The story centres around a small family of three whose lives are irrevocably altered when the father passes away. His death leaves behind a household overwhelmed by grief and emotional disarray. The son, struggling to process his loss, begins to define himself through the rituals he performs during …

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#Book Review: A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hawawaldong by Lee Onhwa

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There are some books that don’t ask to be read so much as entered. A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hawawaldong is one of them—quiet, glowing, and softly magical, like a streetlamp you stumble upon while walking alone at night. Set in a pastry shop that opens only at midnight, Lee Onhwa weaves together stories of the living and the dead with remarkable tenderness. The shop is a liminal space, a threshold where spirits linger, not out of fear, but out of love. These spirits come searching for unfinished feelings, unresolved conversations, and the people they were unable to say goodbye …

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#Bookreview : An Educated Woman in Prostitution -A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit by Manada Debi, translated by Arunava Sinha

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Indian society holds great pride in its rich culture and values and prostitution is one such job which is considered lowly and menial.  Our society looks down upon prostitutes and they are often shunned and considered as ‘lesser beings’. What we fail to realise is that prostitution is also a product of this cultured society which is deep-rooted and took birth from the age-old customs and from the society of the elites. This is an enlightening memoir of such ‘an educated woman’ from the well-off society who embarks in the journey of prostitution after her beloved betrays her.  A great …

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#bookreveiw: A Patchwork Family by Mukta Sathe

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Have you ever felt ‘meh’ after reading a book? I was left with this feeling after finishing Mukta Sathe’s debut novel, A Patchwork Family. I was looking for a short read and the title of the book intrigued me. The story started with the narrator, Ajoba( grandfather in Marathi) and his relation with his best friend. It then spins in to how a bond of friendship, love and trust develops with his best friend’s grand daughter Janaki. While the narrator talks about this beautiful bond, he sites certain misdoings of the society and the system may be to create more …

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