Avirupa Basu

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Avirupa Basu is an upcoming novelist and food writer fascinated by the way meals shape memory, emotion, and connection. In their stories, kitchens and tables become more than settings—they are spaces where life’s small, meaningful moments unfold.

From clumsy kitchen experiment to a perfectly crafted recipe, Avirupa’s writing captures the gestures, flavors, and moments that reveal character, humor, and emotion.

She believes food is never just sustenance—it is a way to capture life’s small, meaningful moments...

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While writing Oops, My Heart Did a Somersault, I kept returning to how easily a stable life can be unsettled by one genuine connection. The characters don’t go looking for love. It finds them in the middle of routines they thought were enough
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"In 1940s Shimla, sisters Nalini, Noor, and Afreen run the Royal Hotel Shimla, catering to British elite. When revolutionaries ask for help in a murder plot, they get entangled in a web of lies, love, and hidden agendas, set against India's independen" Read more of this review »
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“But had we really broken up? Or was this temporary?

Was it a brief stop to reassess and realign, or was it the beginning of the end?

The lack of clarity left me stuck in a world of questions, each with its own elusive answer.”
Avirupa Basu, Oops! My Heart did a Somersault!: London to Calcutta.

“But had we really broken up? Or was this temporary?

Was it a brief stop to reassess and realign, or was it the beginning of the end?

The lack of clarity left me stuck in a world of questions, each with its own elusive answer.”
Avirupa Basu, Oops! My Heart did a Somersault!: London to Calcutta.

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