Some thrillers entertain you for a weekend. Some leave you glancing at the weather app a little differently afterward. While reading The Pralaya Prophecy by Mridula Ramesh, I kept feeling an unusual mix of dread and tenderness — as if ancient mythology and tomorrow’s newspaper headlines had been locked inside the same room and told to survive together. And somewhere in the middle of that storm stands Rajan. Not the polished, larger-than-life hero we are trained to adm

Some mysteries begin with a dead body. Others begin with a whisper. Unicorns in the City by Deepti L. Sharma begins with something far more unsettling — a child’s quiet secret. While reading this book, I found myself smiling at the innocence of the moment and yet feeling a subtle unease creeping in. A little girl, Gullu, casually mentions that her best friend’s grandmother has been murdered. But when her mother, Karishma Singh, tries to know more, the conversation hits a