It is often said that books are a person’s friends, philosophers and guides. This could not have been any truer in my case. Be it the childhood days spent honing my English-language skills or those attempts at filling my inner void, books were with me through thick and thin. That said, the one instance that Read more…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sayantani DasGupta is a pediatrician by training. She teaches at the Columbia University. She is a team member of We Need Diverse Books and has grown up hearing Bengali folk tales about the man-eating Rakkhosh demons, brave princesses, serpent kingdoms, Tuntuni birds, and flying horses. REVIEW The Serpent’s Secret is a fantasy Read more…

I had always been a very simple and down-to-earth person. I was fairly easy-going in almost every situation. All that changed on the day when I lost my baby in the sixth month of pregnancy. Those six months had been the most exciting phase of my life, until that fateful morning when my water broke. Read more…