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Can You Fall in Love with a City?

Notes on the places that shaped the cases — and us. Mostly us.

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For the Love of Mumbai!

Leopold Café, Marine Drive at dawn, Dharavi's impossible spirit — why Mumbai isn't just a setting for The Inherited Sin. It's a character. The most complicated one.

February 2026 · 5 min read
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Kolkata: The City That Refuses to Let Go

The architecture of ghosts, tea as philosophy, and why Kolkata is the city where Andrew learns that patience is a different kind of intelligence.

February 2026 · 6 min read
Cities

Assam's Hidden World: Tea, Jungle, and the Stories Between

India's forgotten frontier — the tea estates, the Brahmaputra, the Bangladesh border, and the insurgency that shaped Andrew's investigation.

February 2026 · 6 min read

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