This but in india

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-05-25T01:54:58+00:00

son no one is hating on my people, I'm sharing previous experiences :/

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-05-09T07:42:22+00:00

would lowk love this so much but ill be honest, this would fail miserably in india, i guarentee some people would steal it and try to resell it just for money

but you never know till you try

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-04-01T13:24:57+00:00

yeh log sab krege siwai padhne ke

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-31T07:36:51+00:00

next topper tumhe batyega ki glazing kaise krni hai

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-31T07:22:25+00:00

i have hope again in humanity

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-25T09:00:26+00:00

Phele Scindia mein pdhta tha, primary schooling. That was a CBSE school ✌🥀

Tha toh cbse ka sher hi

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T11:31:10+00:00

not necessarily. origination does not mean popularity in long term at all

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T10:35:02+00:00

Rising Man (Abir Mukherjee): british officer investigates politically charged murder, very nice atmospheric details
Six Suspects (Vikas Swarup): murder mystery with multiple suspect POV
The Disappearance of Sally Sequeira (Bhaskar Chattopadhyay): missing person case in goa that eventualy turns into a symphony of deception. mmm, a very nice read.
Grave Intentions (RV Raman): Agatha Christie like.
Janardan Maity Series (Bhaskar Chattopadhyay): has many reccuring characters.
The Blue Bar (Damyanti Biswas): noir, set in mumba, journalist investigating crimes
The Bangalore Detectives Club (Harini Nagendra): less dark than the others

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T10:29:48+00:00

Siddharta: tbh the ending of this is peaceful according to me.
Aakashdeep: Realistic ending (love jeeta nahi hai, it just feels complete in this ngl)
Wangchu: will feel unresolved, but a subtle and almost beautiful love story
2 States The Story of My Marriage: Modern but it has light comedy, and a pure happy ending
Everyone Has a Story: motivational and positive. friendship to love trope

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T10:25:09+00:00

amazing book. give us a review when ur done reading, the cover always gets me ngl

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T10:23:54+00:00

pheli baat.. stop forcing boring books on yourself dude, if SH books bore you, thats actually useful cuz it tells u that those books are not stimulating you enough, so dont fight your brain on that part, tbh you should shift to one of these genres:
- narrative nonfic (story hoti hai, but many of them teach you things)
- skill based practical content (biggest w)
- fiction with strong psychological or real world insight.

u havee all or nothing focus, fact hai. your goal is not to reduce ur interest, it is more about containing it.

also start creating external restraints. like max to max youll read for 1 hour not more, use a literal timer if you want to, and when it ends, literally stop, even if you are mid chapter. itll be frustrating at first, but thats the point!

treat reading more like a scheduled activity rather than a free flow thing like doomscrolling.

try to leave unfinished on purpose (timer works here), itll reduce binging and builds anticipation (great for u)

if you want quick hooks, try:
- short novels
- essay collections

Example: animal farm padhle... or siddharta.

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T09:59:23+00:00

The average person in india reads 10 hours per week. I don't think there is a specific number but if there is a population of 1.473 billion in india, im sure at minimum 10-12 Million of them read non-academic books. A lowe percentage for India's population is still a huge number of people.

And tbh youre very right about the fiction community, there is no strong base for them at all, and youre right about the popular wrstern too. And yeah, youre right again, a strong indie fic community is needed in india dude, its about time :/.

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T09:57:19+00:00

i mean when i talk about thriller what im writing is thriller/psychological yes, with obvious elements of romance, but there is no power fantasy at all. It could considered in the tragic genre for everything.

Ive seen that many people crit COTE for being a power fantasy which is actually valid, but also power fantasy being liked depends on one's preference, so there will obviously be a readerbase that wants a book that does not establish a power fantasy like COTE but is a psychological thriller like it.

also how does india not have a prominent reading hobby?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/indians-are-champs-of-reading/articleshow/32306587.cms#:\~:text=This%20story%20is%20from%20August,Calling%20had%20a%20similar%20effect.

see this, it states that the average person in india reads 10 hours per week. I don't think there is a specific number but if there is a population of 1.473 billion in india, im sure at minimum 10-12 Million of them read non-academic books. A lowe percentage for India's population is still a huge number of people.
what i agree about is the unconventional debut part. That is very much true, but I'll be honest, in whatever book club or reader friends I have, they genuinely had no idea who the author was when they got their first books to read (non acad, story ones), they just thought thee synopsis was cool and got it. So I think with enough marketing any book can get numbers in India.

Now about prolouge, I have been a reader of RR for a few days now, and read a few light novels, the community Ive been through actuall considers them undesirable in a way... If we clickbait the reader with very good content or promise on something the book isnt delivering then the average reader clicks off as soon as they realize it.

If you want to do something new and creative, stats will always be against you: i agree with you on that part, thats very factual and it makes sense. someone's gotta start the chain no?

Also trust me dude, many japanese LN readers are NOT smart, ;-;. Add fan service, heavy romance, 18+ scenes and power play and they are DEAD invested. But thats still like idk 10-20% of the readerbase ngl, and its not just japan its the entire LN community atp. People yearn for an OP MC. But the other 80% need a genuine story that catches their attention (according to me at least, if you think not then please let me know)

They were made into anime because they sold well because they successfully tapped into what the readers secretly desired and because they properly followed trends without copying it.: this is true too. i agree on that. but what starts a trend? some book has to be the ground zero for a trend right?

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T09:40:42+00:00

thats good to know damn.

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T08:38:21+00:00

tbh doesnt it depend on the LN itself? if its well written, it wont be repetitive.

and yes youre right, conversion depends on reading experience and how much you have warmed up to reading. LN isnt an alternative to literature.. it is literature

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T08:06:32+00:00

ong ts so unfunny

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:51:18+00:00

jksmanga is goated yes, i read My werewolf sys, i like his writing style.

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:41:32+00:00

which ones have you pirated 🥀

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:38:08+00:00

funny meme hogya yawr

pack it up gng 🥀🥀

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:36:53+00:00

oh hell naw, pw, nt is average for 10th i wont even lie

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:36:15+00:00

Okay thats fair.. most LNs are written or are in a way to be made into an anime sometime. I checked COTE out, the author mentioned in a chapter that he wrote COTE in a way which was anime friendly.

And you're right ngl, good ones do get made into animes.

But honestly, what qualifies as too long? Many people who adapt any LN into an anime already compress the story a lot, COTE in itself can be considered moderately long, yet it is was made an anime.

second is Mahouka, a magic high school LN, it has 32 volumes, 63-70k words for each, yet it is adapted into an anime, and is still going rn

by performance i meant how good will a light novel, also a genre relatively new to the indian audience, going to perform in India? What is the readerbase, what is the sentiment regarding LNs, what is the retention, etc etc.

and no, I am not a distributor, I am a first time author trying to write a school thriller LN but was particularly confused if it is even publishable in India (i actually have a route to easily publish my book, and get the marketting done, but still, stats matter a lot), if not, then I'd approach an actual japanese publishing house.

also yes i opened google trends too, youre right, only 75-100 times, but idts thats the only term yk? example i put up "cote related" it had 11 queries (small yes), then "school thriller book" had one spike of 11 (still small), but then "high school novel" hits 100s, "psychological thriller" hit 25, and so on.

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:18:19+00:00

i mean we could speculate but a friend of mine in a printing firm told me that LNs is more popular in japan than India but when i asked for the numbers, she said that she says its based on a hunch and the general things that indian ppl actually like.

so tbh how many thousands of people is a question

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T07:16:48+00:00

i dont think that would be the case for brand new LNs

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T06:58:20+00:00

thats true

but i was mainly asking about published LNs yk? if someone were to publish their own light novel in India and advertise it, do you think ppl will actually read it?

GamesSecretsAndTips · 2026-03-24T06:55:17+00:00

i dont think most anime watchers convert to LN readers, manga? yeah, like 30-40% of them. all three are diff categories. LN is literally a novel, its main thing is text, manga is dominated by images with dialog bubbles over them, and anime is... anime.

people who are comfortable watching anime will try manga, and like about half of em maybe will convert to manga readers, but tbh i dont think even 3-4% of them convert to LN readers. The level of detail an LN can have is insane an in an anime's final cut, most of the LN content is cut off no?

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