There’s a strange kind of intimacy in knowing what millions of strangers type into a search bar at 2:13 a.m.   That was the thought circling my mind as I moved through Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. Not because the material is shocking—though parts of it are—but because it treats private curiosity like archaeological evidence. Keystrokes become fossils. Patterns become evolutionary footprints. And suddenly, what feels deeply personal starts looking statis

There’s a particular sound that echoes through Indian homes—a sharp intake of breath followed by a whispered, scandalised question: Aiyyo… what will the neighbours say? It’s not just a sentence. It’s a mood. A warning. Sometimes even a full-blown philosophy of life. I smiled the moment I opened Aruna Nambiar’s Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? because I knew, instinctively, that this book understood that sound better than most people ever will.   Reading these thirteen sto

Some books arrive like an invitation you didn’t know you were waiting for. You open the first page expecting light chatter, a pleasant distraction, maybe a few smiles between sips of coffee—and then, somewhere between one chapter and the next, you realise you’ve been quietly pulled into a room full of lives that feel oddly familiar. The Secrets of Floor Five did that to me. It didn’t knock. It simply slid into the seat across from me and began talking, softly, honestly, until