Padmarajan’s Thoovanathumbikal : When rain grows on you as a character

“A close analysis of the film tells you that the pace of the narrative is not dictated by the male, but the female lead,” writes Sanjay Gopinath.

Poornima Laxmeshwar’s Thirteen Household Poems : A delicacy of language describing small town lives

“Small towns are the breeding ground of Indian men to produce more men. Daughters are dowry, menstruation, and questions of morality if they are violated before the nuptial night,” writes Bishweshwar.

Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See : Beauty is to be found in smaller things

“The fear and darkness of the regime slowly grows on you, but empathy and tenderness are never far behind,” writes Vidya Bhandarkar.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Before We Visit the Goddess : Celebrating Strong Women

“The chapters may seem disjointed, even reading like short stories in an anthology, and yet, at the end, they are brilliantly connected, like silken threads woven in an elaborate stole,” Krishna Sruthi Srivalsan writes.