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Divya Gupta Kotawala’s My Dad’s Daughter: A Memoir of Loss, Love, and Healing

In works shaped by personal grief, sincerity often becomes the most powerful literary force. My Dad’s Daughter by Divya Gupta Kotawala is a deeply moving tribute that transforms personal loss into a narrative of resilience, offering readers both emotional insight and quiet reassurance. Written after the passing of her father due to COVID-19 in 2021,…

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Maniyan’s Bakery and the Magic Muffins: Where Gentle Humour, Everyday Magic, and Quiet Wisdom Meet

With Maniyan’s Bakery and the Magic Muffins, the third book in the Maniyan the Donkey series, returns to the gentle, reflective storytelling that has defined the world of Maniyan. Blending humour, imagination, and emotional intelligence, the novel offers a quietly assured meditation on reinvention, resilience, and the unexpected ways life reshapes us. The story brings…

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Shivendra Sharma and Being Yogi – An Accidental Serendipity: A Quiet Reckoning with Purpose in a Noisy World

In an age defined by acceleration—of ambition, information, and expectation—stillness has become a rare achievement. , the debut novel by , engages directly with this condition. It is not a spiritual manual, nor a conventional coming‑of‑age narrative. Instead, it is a reflective exploration of how ordinary lives stumble, often unwillingly, toward deeper questions of meaning….

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Bhavya Barai and the Grace of Quiet Writing: Two Books That Give Shape to Silence

In a literary moment often dominated by urgency and assertion, writes with a rare composure. At just 22, his work demonstrates an instinctive understanding of restraint—of when to speak, and when to allow silence to carry meaning. Across a poetry collection and an introspective novel, Barai places the book itself at the centre, letting language…

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The Smile of the Bougainville : On Migration, Memory, and the Quiet Arithmetic of Choice

Migration in literature is often framed in absolutes — as escape or arrival, loss or fulfilment. The Smile of the Bougainvillea resists this simplification. Written with composure and psychological acuity, the novel turns its attention to what lies between departure and belonging: the long interim where lives are lived provisionally and choices accumulate their consequences…

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One Most Important Habit: How Intentionality Exposes the Superficiality of Modern Habit Culture

The global market for habit literature has grown into a polished industry of formulas, systems, and behavioural engineering. Readers are taught to stack habits, automate routines, eliminate friction, optimise mornings, redesign evenings, and measure progress in streaks and metrics. The promise is seductive: change your systems, and your life will follow. One Most Important Habit:…

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Pen and Paper Award Winner Prajakta Pandurang Kalambarkar on The Marathon Within and the Quiet Art of Endurance

For , writing has never been about volume or visibility. It has been about listening—to silence, to questions that linger, and to emotions that rarely find language. Her recognition as a Pen and Paper Award winner for Tiny Tales of Wonder affirms a voice shaped by restraint, sensitivity, and emotional honesty rather than spectacle. That…

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The Monk in the Corner Office: An Editorial Perspective

In an era where burnout is increasingly normalized and emotional exhaustion is often masked as ambition, offers a reflective and grounded examination of what it means to succeed without losing one’s inner balance. Rather than positioning emotional intelligence and mindfulness as corporate performance tools, the book treats them as essential human capacities—quietly transformative when applied…

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