A to Z Challenge 2026: Theme Reveal

Hi everyone! Totally terrified new blogger here about to plunge into what promises to be a thrilling challenge: Blogchatter’s A to Z challenge 2026!

Never having done anything like this in my life, I’m both excited and nervous about this. What I’m sure about, though, is what I want to write about. And that’s the place where my series City of Kaali is set.

The name of the series is a bit of a giveaway, of course. Yet, it is not Kolkata as tourists see it that I want to write about. It’s Kolkata as I see it while writing City of Kaali. It is a Kolkata both of today and of the stories I grew up reading, real and also romanticised, the one I discover walking down random streets and talking to fascinating people.

And so, without further ado, here’s the theme for my very first A to Z challenge: Kolkata Kaleidoscope, the City of Kaali version.

What am I planning to include in this blog, and how is it unique? Well, the plan is to include 26 topics ranging from authors to food to history to daily life that you can encounter in my series. Some of these are already included in Book One: Ageless Feud. Others will present themselves in subsequent books.

I confess, I have something of an ulterior motive in doing this. It’s part of my world-building exercise for the series. And doing it this way makes for a more systematic process than random notes and photographs on my phone!

So, join me on this journey of discovery, and be ready for some surprises along the way! Share some guesses in the comments, and let’s see how many you folks get right.

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This post is a part of Blogchatter A2Z Challenge 2026