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Karmickids listed in Books for Parents to read: Mother & Toddler Expo

And #KarmicKids makes an appearance in this list of parenting books by Indian parents. Thanks Kavita Jhala for letting me know.In great company, with Gopika Kapoor Pallavi Aiyar Lina Ashar Amee Misra Sonali Bendre Behl Dr R K Anand and Deepa Chaudhary.

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Beyond the Guilt: Revising the postcolonial syllabus by Sumana Roy

The very wonderful Sumana Roy, who has to her credit brilliant works like Missing, A Novel and How I Became A True, and Animalica Indica amongst others , has written this on point essay in The Point, about post colonial Indian writing in English seems to be weighed down by the need to inform, to educate, even I dare say at times, to be moralistic or performative.

I am delighted to be mentioned in it, for my usual frothing at the mouth over some books I found unreadable but have been much lauded. Nothing for or against them, but they didn’t give me joy or catharsis and that is the one thing I look for when I read.

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The New Indian Express- The Kitty Party Murder book review: Humour with a heart

By Anuja Chandramouli

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“Like the very best of comic fiction, Kay’s world is funny, filled with snark, biting observations about human nature, occasionally dark and entirely enthralling.

Nearly every sentence is packed with jokes and ideas that demand you savour each line for a truly rewarding read. And while the humour itself is wicked it is also humane. Kay might be given to abusing hyperbole and an extremely critical narrator but she doesn’t let anyone off the hook, least of all, herself. “

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TOI Books on The Kitty Party Murder: “This is a roller-coaster of entertainment.”

Laced with blood-curdling shrieks on deserted stairways, modestly famous but immodestly suave actors, vanishing society tenants, ungodly potential buyers, falling lifts, small acts of fame, insane sale in supermarkets and crazed women who fall off roofs, this is a roller-coaster of entertainment. Manral delivers her social commentary wound around the murder mystery, bowling readers with her unfazed witticism and flamboyant selection of words.
(Byline: Debasree Banerjee. She is a TOI Write India winner.)

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Reading amid the pandemic: Books and authors in 2020

Delighted to have both Raising Kids with Hope and Wonder in Times of a Pandemic and Climate Change and The Kitty Party Murder find a mention in this round up of noteworthy books of 2020 by Vikas Datta of IANS

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A conversation with Maya Sriram on Talking Books with Maya

A lovely conversation with Maya Sriram of @TalkingbookMaya about writing, my writing process, books and reading, and of course, #TheKittyPartyMurder.

Review The Kitty Party Murder: “..two books for the price of one.”

“The Kitty Party Murder seamlessly blends two distinct genres into one intense novel. You’re effectively getting two books for the price of one. I say grab it with both hands and get ready for an adventure that will send your idea of ‘routine’ up in smoke.”

Thanks Ashima Jain for this review.

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The Purple Pencil Project: In Conversation with Kiran Manral

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The Week: “Murder, mayhem and mirth: Humour and Murder form a delightful cocktail in The Kitty Party Murder.”

“This is not so much a novel as a riot. It’s a wildly funny, extravagantly inventive, no-punches-pulled, no-expenses-spared tale of a kitty party veteran, viz., Kannan Mehra (Kay, for short) who takes to moonlighting as a private detective for a bit of extra income, and a loads of extra excitement….The narrative swings like a rollercoaster, and at the controls, author Kiran Manral seems to be having a whale of a time. Her humour is on uppers so frequently, it will make Bollywood starlets look like novitiates in a particularly severe order of Sisters. Manral is prolific with her punch lines and there are such a plethora of them, that one wonders anxiously if she will have anything left for the end. But the storehouse is large, and stocks last the last page.”

Thank you Jairam Menon for this wonderful review of #TheKittyPartyMurder in The Week. Completely made my Monday morning, nay, my week.
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#TheKittyPartyMurder. Read it yet? On Amazon here: amzn.to/2HIW32E

Objectification of Women’s Sexuality and its Impact – A Critical Exploration of Kiran Manral’s Missing, Presumed Dead

Rabiya Yaseen Bazaz’s essay, Objectification of Women’s Sexuality and its Impact – A Critical Exploration of Kiran Manral’s Missing, Presumed Dead wins the title of Pan Macmillan India’s BEST LANGUAGE & EXPRESSION
Submitted for #TMYSreview December 2020, the essayist has won a book hamper from Pan Macmillan.
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