Celebrating Keigo Higashino, the popular Japanese author, and the world of Japanese Thrillers

Featured Podcasters: Sandeep S, Krishnakumar Muraleedharan, Anup Asokan and Lekha Menon

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The Podcasters share their reads of the first half of the year - the favourites and the not-so-favourites.

Featured Podcasters: Sandeep S, Krishnakumar Muraleedharan, Anup Asokan and Lekha Menon

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The Podcasters share their reads of the first half of the year - the favourites and the not-so-favourites.

Featured Podcasters: Sandeep S, Krishnakumar Muraleedharan, Anup Asokan and Lekha Menon

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Strange coincidences and Hard tragedies behind your favourite reads. Did Dracula have a first draft that was lost - until recently? Did Authors confess their murders in their Murder Mysteries and get away with it? Did a nurse survive three Ship Sinkings/collisions, all of which were of the same class?..

Original air date: 18 July 2026

Featured Podcasters: Sandeep S, Krishnakumar Muraleedharan, Anup Asokan and Lekha Menon

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What's the story behind that book? Today we explore the strange coincidences and hard tragedies behind your favourite reads. Did Poe's only novel predict a gruesome tale of cannibalism on the seas? Extraordinary events and people that inspired hard-to-believe accounts are covered.

Original air date: 4 July 2026

Featured Podcasters: Sandeep S, Krishnakumar Muraleedharan, Anup Asokan and Lekha Menon

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We move into international fiction, talking about topics ranging from Lolita to Satanic Verses, Fortune's Rocks to Ente Kadha, and the controversial pieces by otherwise mild-mannered writers.

We've had a fair share of these. The books, in our growing years, that someone told us not to read. The books that we had in our hand as teens/ adults that had people frowning upon us. The ones we are curious about, but never got to read, worrying about the scandal, if we were caught reading them.

In this episode, we speak about Meesha, The Da Vinci Code, Perumal Murugan and others.

Without taking sides, we evaluate the various instances of plagiarism accusations in the literary society. It started as an opportunistic episode, but it slowly morphed into an in-depth conversation on tropes and plots.

We talk about books that were either banned or created controversies. In this episode, we discuss S Hareesh's Meesha, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, and other lesser-known, controversial books.

We talk about Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer's most irreverent works centered around Anavari Raman Nair, Ponkurishu Thoma, Ettukaali Mammoonju, and others.