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No Return Ticket: Exile of Asha and the Empire’s Silence
“Some ships don’t return. Neither do some girls.” Uma Lohray’s debut novel, The One-Way Ships, doesn’t arrive with fanfare or scream for your attention. Instead, it stays, like a low tide that never quite recedes, leaving behind salt, silt, and silence. This is not a page-turner; it’s a page-sojourner. It lingers. It leans. It listens, to the overlooked stories of Indian ayahs shipped across the seas during the British Raj. Raised to cradle colonial children, many of these women were quietly abandoned. Forgotten. If that opening line doesn’t leave a mark, wait until you live through Asha’s. Threadbare Truths, Tenderly Told Lohray dares what Indian fiction seldom attempts, she zooms…
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Butshikan: Tears of Somanatha — A Reckoning Disguised as Historical Fiction
In an age when historical fiction often amounts to glorified costume dramas confused about whether they are history lessons or romantic novellas, Butshikan enters the literary space like a war conch. Ancient, resonant, and utterly uninterested in playing to gallery tastes, it does not pander. It provokes. This is not history retold. It is history reimagined through a civilisational gaze that neither flatters nor forgives. A Story That Refuses to Apologise for Its Intelligence How refreshing, in a world saturated with historical novels that treat the reader as a well-meaning but dim cousin, to find a work that assumes its audience might actually know the difference between the Cholas and the Chauhans. Butshikan…
𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮 📚
