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…
Sacred India is best read not as a coffee‑table spectacle, but as a sustained act of cultural documentation. Conceived and photographed by Utkarsh Sinha, the book sets out to record the living fabric of one of the world’s oldest civilisations—how faith, architecture, ritual, and community continue to shape India’s everyday life.Structured as a visual and…
In a period when India’s spiritual life is increasingly mediated through spectacle, speed, and simplification, adopts a markedly different approach. His work resists interpretation through instant explanation or visual excess. Instead, it proceeds with patience—treating faith not as an event to be consumed, but as a civilisational practice to be documented. Sacre d India, Sinha’s…
Randomness of Life by Sumit Bhatia belongs firmly to the latter. This is a collection of prose-poems that does not chase perfection, closure, or spectacle. Instead, it turns its attention to the fragments—those quiet, often overlooked moments that shape who we are long before we realize it. Poetry Rooted in the Ordinary—and the Unsaid Randomness of Life explores love,…
Jestus on Rampage is a work of satire that proceeds with unusual restraint. It does not rely on exaggeration, emotional urgency, or overt confrontation. Instead, it unfolds with a steady calm, allowing its absurdities to sit plainly on the page and trusting the reader to recognize their implications. The novel follows Professor Bagdenborg, a figure who…
