Amish Raj MulmiBooks that made my year: The 2021 editionMacabre short story collections and butterfly musings to Ghalib as the detective and a defeated soldier’s journals.11 min read·Dec 3, 2021--1--1
Amish Raj MulmiBooks that made the Coronavirus year —Part IV!My annual list of books, in a year when the passage of time made little sense. Season’s greetings, everyone!12 min read·Dec 28, 2020----
Amish Raj MulmiBooks that made my year, part IIIKeeping with tradition, here’s the third instalment of the books that made my 2019. Happy New Year, folks!6 min read·Dec 29, 2019----
Amish Raj MulmiThis crime series set in Bangkok’s neon-lit streets brings the city’s lurid side to lifeJohn Burdett’s Sonchai Jitpleecheep series compels readers to look beyond Thailand’s beaches and the fetishisation of its sex industry7 min read·Nov 22, 2019----
Amish Raj MulmiWriting from beyond India and PakistanA personal South Asian reading list featuring books beyond India and Pakistan5 min read·Jul 5, 2019----
Amish Raj MulmiBefore Lisbeth Salander: The couple that invented Nordic noirThe 10 Martin Beck books mark the beginning of what we now know as Nordic noir.7 min read·May 21, 2019----
Amish Raj MulmiCountering the narrative of being a Muslim in the West: on Ausma Zehanat Khan’s crime writingAusmat Zehanat Khan’s series of crime novels starring Detective Esa Khattak counters the demonisation of Muslims in the West7 min read·Jan 29, 2019----
Amish Raj MulmiTo understand modern China, read Qiu Xiaolong’s crime fictionQiu Xiaolong‘s crime books starring the reluctant detective Chen Chao show a side of China beyond the news7 min read·Jan 11, 2019----
Amish Raj MulmiBooks that made my year, Part IIA short note on my favourite books of 20183 min read·Dec 24, 2018----
Amish Raj MulmiTwo detectives for our troubled timesOn the novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan & Abir Mukherjee6 min read·Jul 26, 2018----