Nilesh

a 🧔🏽‍♂️ of few words. Have you read @unmana ‘s Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd yet?

Prefer @nileshb.bsky.social

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

‘Chikkamma Tours Pvt Ltd’: A cosy Bangalore murder mystery with a realistic portrayal of queer lives https://t.co/hpYWGiuTET via @scroll_in

[Westland Books @WestlandBooks]

Here’s the Dilli dump from the Chikkammas!

The Delhi leg of Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd extended over the weekend. We had a book discussion with @jaiarjun hosted by the lovely folks at The Bookshop Inc!

[TNIE Karnataka @XpressBengaluru]

Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd, a gripping new queer bibliomystery by debut
author Unmana (@Unmana), turns a popular #Bengaluru bookstore into the scene of a murder and the bookstore’s travel-agent neighbours into amateur sleuths

✍️ @MahimaNagaraju

[Free Press Journal @fpjindia]

#BookReview | 'Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd' By Unmana Is A Breezy Yet Bold Mystery Ride

✍️@SapnaSarfare

Link: https://t.co/DZhe3vkk0r #FPJWeekend

[LGBTQ India News @LgbtqIndia]

Tumbling out of the closet: Chikkamma Tours Pvt. Ltd, a cosy and queer Bengaluru mystery https://t.co/k7LS5CpD0E

[Unmana @Unmana]

ah thank you @MahimaNagaraju and @XpressBengaluru for this piece on my book. So lovely to see queer fiction featured in a mainstream newspaper.
@WestlandBooks

[Manorama Hortus @ManoramaHortus]

"Murder and Mayhem: Urban Crime Fiction and Thrillers" സെഷനിൽ നിന്നും -Unmana

Watch the full video on YouTube.
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കാണാം, കേൾക്കാം, മിണ്ടാം.

🎉 ഹോർത്തൂസ് 🎉
Celebrates Art & Literature

#manoramahortus #malayalamanorama #hortus #calicut

[Rajesh Reddy @Rajeshreddyvb]

तंग आ जाते हैं जब होने से
���म न होने में रहा करते हैं
- राजेश रेड्डी

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

"A novel told by a first-person narrator whose name we never learn, who draws us into their world and leaves us gasping for breath at the intensity of their emotions."

https://t.co/AHu4U860Su

@Unmana reviews author Ranbir Sidhu's book, 'Night in Delhi'.

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

@drdang @RGVzoomin @_PVRCinemas 😮

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

I’ve been trying #Gujarati -English #poetry #translation and posting on BlueSky! Come see?

https://t.co/C0aKNFaIv6

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

I painted @anishgawande :)

Acrylic on 12”x12” canvas board.

#acrylicpainting #portrait #handpainted

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

They just learning from Indian TV dramas now!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Netflix execs tell screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along”

They also have thousands of micro-genres including “casual viewing” which is used for movies/TV that go down best when you’re not paying attention.

(Source: https://t.co/KIZ2gKloK4)

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Netflix execs tell screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along”

They also have thousands of micro-genres including “casual viewing” which is used for movies/TV that go down best when you’re not paying attention.

(Source: https://t.co/KIZ2gKloK4)

[Westland Books @WestlandBooks]

Stories that kept us up all night—our #2024 wrapped with these pageturners!

#Bestof2024

[Unmana @Unmana]

17. Peace Has Come by Parismita Singh: stories set in rural Assam, with a diverse cast of characters; beautiful, poignant, heartbreaking, funny.

[Unmana @Unmana]

Prompted by @karthikavk's thread, here's a thread of Indian books I read this year (I liked all of them, didn't completely uncomplicatedly love any, but they were all interesting and worth trying--plus I abandon books I'm not enjoying with no compunction)

[Karthika V.K. @karthikavk]

And if quirky, cozy, queer mystery is your thing, here's Chikamma, as vibrant inside as outside.

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

@karthikavk @Unmana Quality is probably an issue too, but I don’t think most readers are reaching that stage. And it’s not that international books are all equally good, even the popular/ celebrated ones.

[Nilesh @nileshpaints]

@karthikavk @Unmana Listicles + critical reviews are difficult to find even when I’d looked in the past. I do see a bit more out there in the last couple of years but that’s probably because I’ve figured out where to look, and I’m seeking them out.