We often imagine that the most dangerous secrets in a relationship are the ones someone tells us. Perhaps they aren't. Perhaps the more dangerous ones are the secrets someone successfully keeps from us. That thought stayed with me while reading Anubha Gupta's The Almost Perfect Wife. Because beneath the murder mystery, the twists and the ancestral house in Mashobra, this is really a story about something much more uncomfortable: how little we may actually know about the
Some books arrive like conversations. This one arrived like a late-night voice note you replay twice before sleeping. I happened to interview Umang Agarwal a while ago, and I remember noticing how carefully he chose his pauses while answering questions. Not polished pauses. Protective ones. The kind people use when they are deciding how much of themselves can safely enter a room. While reading Raaz Chhupaaye Rakhna Dilbar, that memory kept returning to me. Suddenly the emot