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The Beast Within
Storizen
|Jun 2025
In “The Beast Within", Rudraneil Sengupta trades the sharp pen of a journalist for the equally piercing lens of a crime novelist—and delivers a debut that sears itself into your mind.
Delhi is not just a backdrop here; it’s a living, breathing organism of contradictions—sweltering heat, gridlocked traffic, and a society teetering on invisible hierarchies. When the mutilated body of a teenage girl is found impaled on a rusted gate, the system shrugs. But Inspector Kumar—a man weathered by bureaucracy, bound by duty, and yet quietly stubborn—refuses to let the girl be another forgotten name in a file destined to gather dust. The author doesn't care for chase scenes or dramatic courtroom showdowns. What he
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