“I could hear the thud-thud-thud of his Bullet,” says Bengaluru-based author Anita Nair. She was talking about Borei Gowda, the protagonist of her book Hot Stage at the Lit for Life Dialogue in the city on Friday evening. Hot Stage is the third installment in Anita’s Inspector Gowda series and in talking about the protagonist, she reveals how he is …
KYIV, Ukraine — An offer of NATO membership to territory under Kyiv’s control would end “the hot stage of the war” in Ukraine, but any proposal to join the military alliance should be extended to all parts of the country that fall under internationally recognized borders, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a broadcast interview. An invitation for Ukraine to join …
The one word to describe all three of Anita Nair’s Inspector Gowda novels would be the Merriam-Webster word for this year: authentic. In Hot Stage, the third and latest instalment, the cop goes about first uncovering homicides, then solving a whodunnit in the contemplative yet brisk and wholly authentic manner readers are now familiar with. ‘Hot stage’ refers to a …
