Tag: Indian Literature
book reviews
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: A Saint in a Tree and the Circus That Follows
Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a small book with a lot of noise. Not the heavy kind…
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Last Man in Tower: When Your Neighbors Stop Being Neighbors
Some books are about good people versus bad people. Heroes fighting villains. Clear moral lines. Last Man in Tower by…
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The Home and the World: When Politics Enters Your Marriage
Some books are love stories. Some are political novels. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore is both, and…
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The Silent Raga: A Book That Breathes Music Even When It Can’t Sing
There’s a particular kind of suffocation that comes from being told you’re free while living in a cage. The Silent…
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The Elephant Chaser’s Daughter: A Life Told Without Ornament
Some books take you somewhere else. This one keeps you exactly where things are. In the narrow lanes of rural…
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Still Bleeding From the Wound: Stories That Refuse Closure
There are books that tell you a story and then let you go. They wrap things up. They give you…