A Light of Hope and Direction for Teenagers

Arushi Brotia … “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Gustav Jung In a time when teen mental health grabs more attention, Narmeen Shah and Avinash Kumar Gupta’s Building Inner Strength: A Guide to Mental Health for Teenagers, shines as a light of hope and direction. […]

Femme Tales of Surreal Transgressions and Traumas

Gunjan Pant Pande … Her Body & Other Parties: Carmen Maria Machado In this feminist collection there’s this: Then the hazy buzz of summer saunters in, and the air screeches and hums. Cicada-killing wasps catch the weakest and stab them motionless, hauling the weight of their bodies and their glass wings up and up and […]

‘Climate anxiety led me to write The Man Who Lost India’

Seema Kumar Seth is the richest man in town who wants to get his extremely beautiful daughter Ida married off to Harsh Shah, who holds a National Identification Card. And what is the significance of that. Well, it is because Meghna Pant’s new book The Man Who Lost India, set in 2032, talks about India […]