Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a small book with a lot of noise. Not the heavy kind that demands attention, but the cheerful, chaotic kind that sneaks up on you and makes you grin. It’s a story about a man who climbs a tree to escape the world, only to find the…
Some books are about good people versus bad people. Heroes fighting villains. Clear moral lines. Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga is not that kind of book. This is about what happens when money enters a shared space and morality becomes negotiable. Not dramatically. Not all at once. But gradually, almost reasonably, in ways…
Let me be clear from the start. Poonachi by Perumal Murugan is not a cute animal story. Not a heartwarming tale about a pet goat. This is allegory. Sharp, unflinching social commentary disguised as a simple narrative about a goat’s life. It’s about power. About control. About how we treat the vulnerable. About systems that…