Darkness at Star Mills looks at the 1982 textile mill strike at Mumbai, one of the largest industrial strikes in the world.
The protagonist is a boy named Vinod, a resident of the chawl, who is struggling with changing friendships too, and out of envy and boredom stumbles upon an ugly mystery that is set to change not just his world, but the city around him.
Carri-On, Ruddy!: The Continued Adventures of the Naturalist-Sleuth Mongoose written and illustrated by Rohan Chakravarty, follows Ruddy, Kanha Tiger Reserve’s resident nature detective, as he solves weird wildlife “crime scenes” across India.
The book starts with a dance contest at which Anjali and Wolf are missing. Seeing how that is uncharacteristic of them, Nagesh, Aaraval, Minotaur and Maithili go looking for them and end up in the Isle of Insanity.
Eleven-year-old Avisha reads a book from her summer reading list and takes an immediate dislike to the motivations and actions of its protagonist. She decides to write to the author directly, to make her case, to say: you are wrong.
Sona is a twelve-year-old Nepali girl living in Darjeeling with her mother and brother, trying to make ends meet. After her father’s death due to Covid, everything narrowed. Her mother works at a tea plantation; her brother, Samiran Daju, takes on whatever work he can find and cooks for the family when he is home.
Himanjali Shankar’s Game On is a blend of science fiction and horror that feels both playful and unsettling. The story follows siblings Sammy and Simmy, who set out to fetch a glass of water but instead, they find their house glitching into a surreal game.
