The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
Alka Joshi’s writing is a mellifluous treat to read. The way it is written is the beauty of this book, for it’s too difficult to come out of the book once you are within it, for the world set…...
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Little America
Even for me, America is the portal to freedom. I have promised myself that the day I walk into the land of the free I will wear this shirt, I have preserved this for that feat in my life, only if I…...
3 Years Ago
Of Smokeless Fire
The story and structure of “Of Smokeless Fire” reminded me of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children.” In the latter the protagonist Saleem Sinai is born with mag…...
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
I have always believed in books finding their reader. I read all three of Balli’s novels in a month’s span back in January, each of them making me fall more in love with her writing and…...
3 Years Ago
The Maidens
When you enter the world of “The Maidens”— Greek tragedy filled realism, intrigue filled murder mystery, high rising ancestral structures of Cambridge— you are in for a ride that will t…...
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The Soul of a Woman
How much feminism is enough feminism? When Allende’s book cover flaunted the lines of “…remember no one gives us anything, we have to seize what we want”, round the world the plat…...
3 Years Ago
