There are some books you don’t exactly read—you sit with them, the way you sit with an old memory you’re not ready to let go of. That was my experience with In the Silence You Left Behind by Sumitra Manda. It didn’t arrive like a story. It arrived like a feeling I thought I had already processed… but clearly hadn’t.   This isn’t a book built on dramatic heartbreak. There are no loud exits here, no doors slammed shut. Instead, it explores the kind of absence that lingers—the k

The first time I paused while reading Beyond Love, it wasn’t because a line demanded applause. It was quieter than that. I found myself staring at the faint smudge on my Kindle screen, the kind you only notice when your mind slips away from words and wanders inward. That’s when I realised this book wasn’t asking to be read. It was asking to be felt. Slowly. Honestly. Maybe even a little uncomfortably.   Sanjeev Sareen is not trying to dazzle you with literary fireworks or spi