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It's interesting and engaging, has that queer yearning and angst element to it. Alot of commentary on social norms, societal prejudice, religion and the internal bigotry of homosexuality in more conservative places like South Asia, a majority of the book is set in India itself and the characters backgrounds are rooted in India and Indian culture.

This is a book written in English and published for a more international audience, I don't see the purpose of using blatant unnecessary hindi phrases written in English just to make the reader confused. Indian culture and society should be explored rather than giving the readers a difficult time to process sentences for no apparent reasons. 12% in and this continuous usage is getting out of hand.

The prose is very choppy and gimmicky, the themes are nice so far, the book trying to convey the societal discriminations and the bigotry layered within South Asian Countries, India mainly.

But there are many direct Indian (Hindi) phrasings and deliberate hindi words just written in english, which definitely will cause an issue for non-native and non-familar people to follow.

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Thank you to the author himself for reaching out and giving me an E-Arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.


Just started, actually am very interested to see how this unfolds!