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Tomichan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Lapbah is a collection of 57 short stories from the eight states, though two are excerpts from novels. Most of the writers are well-known in the region as well as outside, like Indira Goswami, Easterine Kire, and Janice Pariat. The stories span a per
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| A tale of rival kingdoms, war, and the eventual triumph of good over evil carries the weight of an ancient narrative tradition. The theme and setting of Sitharaam Jayakumar’s sequel to his earlier Himadripuram novella belong to the realms of epics an ...more | |
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The story unfolds in a “quaint” cantonment “at the edge of the great Indian desert” where the trees are “dry, and thorny – more like a bush gone crazy in the heat.” One day, Veer, Lucky, and three other children are on their usual adventure into the d ...more |
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The story unfolds in a “quaint” cantonment “at the edge of the great Indian desert” where the trees are “dry, and thorny – more like a bush gone crazy in the heat.” One day, Veer, Lucky, and three other children are on their usual adventure into the d ...more |
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| The essential beauty of these stories lies in the way the inner rage of the women-characters is presented: quietly. The rage never becomes a blazing flame; it remains there within the character as a fraught flicker – as a yearning in some stories, he ...more | |
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| The Vegetarian tells Yeong-hye’s tragic story on the surface. Below that surface, it raises too many questions that leave us pondering deeply. What does it mean to be human? Must humanity always entail violence? Is madness a form of truth, a more pro ...more | |
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| Lapbah is a collection of 57 short stories from the eight states, though two are excerpts from novels. Most of the writers are well-known in the region as well as outside, like Indira Goswami, Easterine Kire, and Janice Pariat. The stories span a per ...more | |
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| A politician’s memoirs will be intertwined with the history of his country. Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book is no exception. This is the second part of the author’s memoirs and it deals with the years from 1991 to 2024. The very opening sentence reassures ...more | |
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| Reba Rakshit was a rare kind of entertainer. She could lift an elephant on her chest. She would lie on a mat and a huge plank would be placed on her chest. An elephant would walk on that plank. Reba could bear the weight of that elephant though for a ...more | |
“What had Hitler achieved with his gospel of racial superiority and the hellish hatred it generated? How many millions of people lost their lives to that hatred? So that the Aryan race will retain its purity? What was the final outcome? Hitler had to die like a rat in its hole. He had to fire a bullet into his own temple in order to escape the ignominy that his friend, Mussolini, met with in the end.”
― Black Hole
― Black Hole
“Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace,” said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.”
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“Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.”
― The Nomad Learns Morality
― The Nomad Learns Morality
“Women, mused Achilles. Strange creatures. They make us mad. They make us love and they make us fight.”
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“How much should the women sacrifice for satisfying the egos of men? The question grew in her heart and became an unbearable burden. It suffocated her. We are toys in the hands of men; they play with us to soothe their tired bodies and minds.”
― The Nomad Learns Morality
― The Nomad Learns Morality
“The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.”
― The Nomad Learns Morality
― The Nomad Learns Morality
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